Lighting-Design Updates

These stylish developments in indoor lighting can help make your kitchen, dining room and living room more comfortable and appealing.

Filed under: Indoor Lighting, Kitchen Lighting, Lighting, Kitchens, Living Rooms, Dining Rooms, Fireplace

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People tend to think a sofa needs to face the fireplace, but by placing it at a right angle to the hearth, it creates a path that draws one into the seating area. The new furniture arrangement is much more inviting, and sophisticated reading lamps provide comfortable task lighting. To bring some glamour and sparkle to the mantel, glass hurricanes with floating candles have been added, and orchid plants flank it.