Bring Attention To What Is Important In Life And Leave The Petty In The Dark

Walk into a dark room and turn on a light. The illumination spreads across the floors and furniture. Darkness vanishes and the room takes on a new ambiance. Lighting create remarkable nuances in the ambiance of a room. Pendant lighting and Vaxcel lighting can provide a certain elegance and focus the light in a room. Whether we are doing light design for a room or trying to illuminate aspects of our lives the fundamentals remain the same.

First and foremost, shadows are not the problem. The goal of lighting a room is not to dispel all shadows, but to shape the light, to create highlights, lowlights, and areas of focus. If a room is blasted with light removing all shadows, the space becomes uncomfortable and unfocused. Good lighting design can make a small room feel larger and larger rooms feel quaint. By illuminating specific areas the eye is led and washed in the images that the designer prefers. The flat uninteresting wall can be painted with shadows to create depth and texture. The light can be focused onto the best features of the room whether it is the fishtank in the corner or the statue of Johnny Depp in the corner. Every space has its positive areas and difficult spots that can be used to the best advantage. Many times it is the very design obstacle that a room presents that leads to the most innovative solutions and helps create a more interesting space.

In our daily lives we are much the same. Every one on earth has strengths and weaknesses. Our biggest mistake is that we think our flaws need to be hidden. If we design our life like we might light a room we will quickly understand that the first order of business is to figure out what the center of focus is going to be and what other elements of our lives need to be lit up. If we if we try to but 100% energy into every detail of our lives it will be like lighting a room to leave no shadows. There will be no sense of depth or areas of detail. The whole room or life will seem flat and uninteresting.

A perfect lighting plan isn’t about removing all imperfections of a room or trying to cover them up. It is about incorporating them into the room, making the odd shape interesting, or turning a giant flat space into something captivating. In our everyday existence there are many possible points of focus. Throwing our energy, our light, onto the most important areas helps define our values, our goals and how we spend our time. In our example of lighting design, light demands energy. Energy is required for our everyday lives. The places we focus require energy. If we try to spread that over every aspect of our daily world, the emotional cost could be dramatic.

Plan a lighting design of your life. Figure out what is important, where you want to invest your effort and what can take less of your focus. Walk into a well lit room and draw ideas about focusing attention.