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If your imagination takes flight and is committed to the color, it is easy to decorate children’s rooms with an original and fun. It is the great advantage offered rooms in the house for the little ones, which require no limits or rules, almost anything goes!

Then I show you a simple easy to apply ideal and very affordable to help you create a different and fun detail in the room of your small or small.

It is simply to put some hanging on the lampshade. Thus, the lamp becomes an element visually attractive and comes into the picture … But if you look closely at the image, the elements used are not any element, it is neither more nor less than pasta.Yes, yes, which is commonly used to cook! Read the rest of this entry »

The luminaires are undoubtedly parts by defining a practical and ornamental, and that is why the modern decor has not forgotten its incredible promoting amazing changes variables in spaces which are intended decor.

Framing the issue we can not ignore the interaction of these with the furniture which can transform a simple coffee table in a decorative part of a real aesthetic value, but also manage to transcend the furniture fixtures embedded in our wall as if they formed part of a whole, a space for decoration by definition. Read the rest of this entry »

It is important to pay attention to lighting when renovating a kitchen. Natural light from windows should be used to its fullest potential, so you should throw all you have dark shades. Instead, airy fabrics and blinds hang small to allow sunlight to enter the space.

Install artificial light in all directions possible, from the roof to inside the cupboards. A ceiling fan with halogen lamps make the room feel more attractive, like the runway lights. Take advantage of as many lighting options as possible to achieve a sense of warmth in the kitchen. Read the rest of this entry »

The classic: incandescent bulbs

Bulb Classic
It Consists of a tungsten filament That glows with the passage of electrical current.
It lies in all forms: pear, flame, sphere, twisted tube, etc. It is transparent and Provides a bright light and warm. If mate, off a warmer light, ideal When the bulb is visible. Are also available in colored light bulbs. They Come in Different Strengths, from 25 to 100 watts.
Enjoy it Quickly Because the European Union has just voted a gradual ban of These bulbs from September 1, 2009. Since 2012 and will not find in stores. Read the rest of this entry »

Good lighting can bring charm and personality to a room without soul. Just knowing how to choose and adapt your lamps and fixtures for your needs.

Some rules
- Multiply the light sources, indirect lighting in which it is possible to adjust the intensity, direct lighting, diffused by a spider and special lighting for example, to track your activities (table lamp, lighting throat illumination from a source light that is hidden behind a panel parallel to the wall and located near the ceiling, which casts its light indirectly, reading lamp …).
- The lighting should not dazzle ever. Opt for incandescent lamps, avoid white walls, choose rather yellow, amber, beige and pastel.
- Beware of shadows on the walls: a lamp on the ceiling just above your desk or projected distracting shadows on the table when you lean forward. Prefers the front and side lighting on the table or desk. It also keeps the light falls directly on the seats with aplomb.
- Play with the lighting to give volume to the objects by placing fixtures side, behind or under objects highlighted. The lighting can thus highlight a picture, an aquarium or on the outside, the facade.
- Install regulators: the intensity can be modified.
- And finally, always do tests to see shadows and glare before finally setting your lamps. Read the rest of this entry »

The issue of lighting is very important in the home. It is no longer just a matter of having the house well lit – which provides an optimal sense of space, here are some tricks of light – but has also intensified the care of the environment through the use of lamps and lighting systems ecological.

Such is the case with LED lights. As we’ve said many times in EspacioHogar, LED lights have the characteristic of lasting much longer than regular bulbs, using less electricity, which means a radical reduction in energy consumption. They are clearly very versatile, which come in many colors and are so small that it can adapt to many possibilities in decoration. Read the rest of this entry »

Home Improvement Trends

Landscape lights are the finishing touches to an otherwise perfect landscape design, but if you fail to comply with the accent of the project with the landscape only lighten the law, you may have lost the last touch.

To decide best in landscape lighting for your project, it is important to know not only when you are placing the landscape of lights, but what kind of lights to give you maximum use of landscape lighting effects.

Solar lighting is very popular and good economic reasons, since there is no cost once you have solar landscape lighting in place, but this is the best way to accentuate the landscape of your project? in most cases the answer is clearly no.

The economics of solar energy lights the scenery is great, but this is not a science fair, and you have tapes not be cheap or the environment. Let us reflect on what your project is worth hard earned respect to the illumination of his masterpiece, when the sun goes down.

The best option in the choice of landscape lighting low voltage electric lights. This will give a constant and evenly distributed lighting effect every night without worrying about the amount of direct sunlight that may or may not have taken its solar lighting choice.

Landscape lights should also be placed discreetly in your landscape project. Try to add his enlightenment in a way that the lights do not come during the day and night, the lights seem to come from hiding places, to focus only on the landscape, and not directly in the eye view of their readers. Any direct light source is distracting, carefully choosing lighting placement, you can give the party is waiting for evaluation.

All rooms need a varied lighting: ambient lighting or background lighting for close work or lighting to highlight special features.

1. Down lighting is something that people love or hate. It can be very useful and effective in some respects but, like everything, should be used in the right place.

2. The spotlights are used to highlight significant assets and architectural details. They can also be interesting when used in the corners of rooms, where normally there is usually no lighting. It can install two different switches to adjust light levels and thus create different environments.

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Reading requires a proper light. Otherwise, besides being uncomfortable, can be detrimental to our vision. So as we said in the post dedicated to the reading corners, it needs special attention to this aspect. The light may be direct or indirect. If you choose to direct it this should have a smaller power between 60 and 70 watts, if you prefer the second option, be increased to approximately 100 or 150 watts.

The most common option is to place a floor lamp beside the reading chair. This may point directly to reading or, conversely, to direct its beam of light toward the ceiling so that it reflects what (this option is more appropriate when we have a room with ceiling and wall light), achieving greater overall lighting stay and eliminating the possibility of uncomfortable reflections on the books.

The lighting required for the bedroom depends on several factors, such as measures of the room and the color of the walls, since the amount of light that reflect these changes. Depending on the different activities that we develop in the bedroom, we have points that require direct sunlight and others in which the central illumination is sufficient.

General lighting in the bedroom or central may be due to different types of lamps such as ceiling, halogen lights or wall sconces, thus achieving a well-lit space. But we must bear in mind that often a central focus in the ceiling, located above the bed, we can be annoying. The key to that light does not bother it to achieve a warm and welcoming place is to point the light toward the ceiling or walls and also into the cupboards.

Regarding the place of reading, if we have a corner of the room earmarked for this purpose, the ideal is to place a floor lamp. However, if we choose to read in bed this way we will be saving both space and more comfort-we must put some lights on the sides, either on a bedside table or some application on the wall next to the headboard, flexo type, with an articulated arm that allows us to adjust the height of the light source and intensity.

We should always try to make the most of natural light to get our room, the ideal is rather large windows and curtains that can be collected. The bedroom should be well ventilated and bright. To receive the morning sun the bedroom should be located to the east.

Room for children are very wise rail lamps, since we can rotate and point the direction we want, and illuminating different areas, like games, study, etc..