When choosing an interior scheme for your bedroom, it’s important to not only decide on a new colour, but to give due consideration to storage, the layout of the room, the position of the bed, soft furnishings and indeed lighting.
Often overlooked, lighting plays a key role in the quality of your sleep. For sure, the comfort of your mattress will reflect the sleep you achieve, but it may come as a surprise to discover that lighting can affect your sleeping patterns too!
Lighting should form an integral part of the overall design of your new bedroom, and be considered in the early planning stages. Retrospectively fitting ceiling lights or extra wall sockets to accommodate table lamps can be both costly and cause damage to a newly decorated room.
Ceiling lights
Having at least one ceiling light tends to be common-place. Usually centrally positioned, a single shade, chandelier or candelabra is better suited to a bedroom than a directional track spotlight.
Not only will these types of lighting soften the overall scheme, but the way that they disperse the light will be both gentler and more generalized, to illuminate the majority of the room.
Wall lights
Creating an ambiance to the overall scheme, wall lighting is effective in adding illumination, but in a calm, yet purposeful way. It’s an ideal choice either side of a double bed, but will somewhat dictate the overall plan of the room layout.
If you do fancy changing the layout of your bedroom at some point in the future and have fixed wall lighting, consider citing a dressing table under them and using them to illuminate the mirror?
Independent dimmer switches might be best suited to controlling the ceiling and wall lighting. When you start to feel sleepy, you can reduce the levels of general lighting to a more subtle level.
Bedside lighting
Table lamps are ideal for those that like to turn off the lights once in bed. And, for anyone who likes to read last thing at night, it allows you to do so without keeping a bedroom partner awake too!
That said, a more on-trend and stylish way of having bedside lighting is to install small ceiling lights on single cables, positioned directly above a bedside table or cabinet.
Internal wardrobe lighting
Whilst you may give good consideration to the overall lighting in your bedroom, all too often illuminating inside your wardrobe is forgotten.
It’s ironic really - your new bedroom may look fantastic with sophisticated lighting, but open your wardrobe doors and you struggle to see the clothes inside them without good internal wardrobe lighting!
Not only does the Tresana Collection provide you with a multitude of sliding wardrobe options, but with internal storage combinations and lighting solutions, the internals of your wardrobes will look equally as stunning as the doors themselves.
Look no further then the Tresana Collection for your new bedroom storage!