Contemporary interior lighting has numerous options to suit your mood or personality. If you are looking forward to change your interior decoration, an instant way to resurrect your living room style quotient is to introduce table lamps in the room. Table lamps are an ideal mix of good lighting and elegant designs. They add charm to your entire room and if rightly chosen, may prove to be the centerpiece with all other furniture around it.

Types of contemporary lighting

Contemporary lamps are generally made from various types of materials like chrome-brushed steel or even glass cut in floral patterns or other interesting designs. The glass used is also of various forms such as frosted glass, marbelized glass or gold and silver patterns forged on it. Using Swarovski crystals are also another very popular trend while even others make use of murano glass. The other varieties include recessed lighting near the floor level or pendant lighting, track lighting, wall sconces, portable lighting and accent lighting. This variety of lights is utilized to accentuate or highlight a certain portion of the room or hanging artworks. Sometimes subtle or dim lights are also used to move the focus away from something that need not be highlighted.

Contemporary lighting is also highly functional and is available in various forms which enable installation of a particular type of light for a specific use. Earlier a single light in the ceiling illuminated the entire room, but now there might be as many as 7 different lights strategically placed in a single room! These lights are also available in multiple colors and shapes, sizes and material, which make it even more attractive and desirable. What will make you even happier is that these contemporary lighting and their accessories are very pocket- friendly while adding the much needed glamour to your home.

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Stylish table lamps are the key to a well furnished room and a major key to the stylish table lamp is the Chinoiserie style, a French term, pronounced “shin-wahz-ree” signifying “Chinese-esque” or “anything reflecting Chinese culture: Chinese artifacts, designs, artistic styles, behavior”.

Yet, to gain a richer understanding of this classic decorating style, we need to go back in history to the time of that intrepid traveller, Marco Polo. It was this famous Venetian who first opened the eyes of the West to the mysterious land, known to the Chinese as the Middle Kingdom or China.

Around the late 13th century, new and exciting products began to trickle into Europe from China, a land still hidden and virtually unknown to the West. Europe was fascinated by the exotic imports such silk, lacquered furniture and porcelain, all vastly expensive and purchased only by the wealthy social classes. These beautiful and curious objects led to the development of a European interpretation of Chinese decoration which the French called, “Chinoiserie”.

The mid 18th century saw a French, aristocratic demand for sumptuous interior design with various European monarchs, such as Louis XV of France, giving special favor to this exciting genre as it blended particularly well with the high rococo style of the day.

In true Chinoiserie fairyland, Mandarins lived in fanciful, mountainous landscapes with cobweb bridges. They carried flower parasols, lolled in flimsy bamboo pavilions haunted by dragons and phœnixes, while monkeys swung from scrolling borders, always delicately drawn and full of free flowing movement with beautifully balanced composition.

Chinoiserie quickly became the height of fashion, setting the interior design style of Paris, London, Berlin and St Petersburg, finding expression in mediums such as furniture, porcelain, wallpaper and fabric, to name just a few.

While the popularity of Chinoiserie may have peaked around the middle of the eighteenth century, its value as an arresting, interior decorative style has never waned.

For a classic or eclectic interior, fine antique table lamps of Chinoiserie style will quickly “pull the look together”, adding interest and an overall sense of high style. Reliable, decorative lighting specialists such as The Antique & Vintage Table Lamp Co are able to offer quality antique or vintage lamps or can source particular lighting requirements upon request.

Table Lamp Tips – remember that using a dimmer switch or simply changing the wattage of your bulb will significantly alter the mood of a room.

You are invited to visit their web site at www.antiquelampshop.com

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So I still can’t upload the house onto the Exchange there’s some massive error that a lot of people are getting as well, so that means it may take a long time before you guys get to play in it =[

Next is the teen/young adult's bedroom, the theme is firey/ craggy volcano thing. Plenty of warm colours and the base black to signify the black rock... =] (I strive for detail)
I rushed this bedroom so it’s not very exciting.

Ah the master bedroom, I love this room, despite the fact its not the most exciting of rooms. I decided I’d add some blinds to the bed and bathrooms since privacy should be respected… especially since theres a wall length window right behind the double bed… wink wink =P
The theme for this room is Space, so lots of circles and black. The wallpaper is supposed to be shooting stars, with their tails and the stars on the bottom. Bedside lamps are supposed to be the beds’ moons, even though the bedd itself doesn’t look like a planet =]
The walk-in wardrobe was just a extra space that need filling in.

The bathrooms are boring and generic so I wont talk about them.

Now for my favourite feature of this house, the rooftop retreat!!! There wasn’t a whole lot I could have put up there so I just threw up a telescope and recliners still looks good!

Finally, night time, I discovered that having foundations as walls screws up lighting so I had to rearrange the kitchen so I could place walls around the foundations to make it normal, but it looks a lot better now so I’m happy!

Enjoy!!!

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Expert: Ann Myrick
Bio: Since 1997, Ann Myrick has been a professional decorator, house cleaner, home organizer and planner.
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