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A bathroom asks more of its lighting than any other room in the house. It has to be bright and accurate enough to shave or apply makeup by, soft enough...

The dining room is where a light fixture works hardest. It has to flatter the food, the table, and the people around it, every single night, not just for one...

One living room usually hosts three completely different activities: reading in a corner, watching a movie, and hosting six people for drinks. A single ceiling light cannot do all three...

A nursery gets used at every hour of the day, including the ones nobody plans for, a 3am feed, a diaper change with a half-asleep toddler standing at the door....

A hallway is a room nobody decorates for its own sake, and it shows. Most corridors get one centered fixture and call it done, which leaves a bright pool in...

"Oriental lighting" gets used as a catch-all for anything with a lantern shape or a hint of East Asian design, which blurs a real and useful distinction. Chinese and oriental-style...

Wall sconces do two jobs at once: they wash a room in soft, layered light, and they act as sculpture on an otherwise empty wall. The most common mistake is...

A round chandelier suits a square table or a square room. The moment your table stretches out into a long rectangle, a round fixture starts pooling all its light in...

A ceiling fan sized for a bedroom looks lost in an open living room, and a fan sized for a great room overwhelms a small bedroom and pushes too much...

People use "Nordic" and "minimalist" almost interchangeably when they are shopping for lighting, and that blurs a real distinction. Minimalism is a design principle, doing more with less, that shows...

Minimalist lighting gets treated as a single look, usually a black or white geometric fixture on a bare wall. That is one version of it, but minimalism is really a...

Kitchen lighting has to work harder than almost any other room in the house. It needs to be bright enough for chopping vegetables, warm enough for a late dinner at...