Natural Lighting:
The creative use of positioning windows to use sunlight to light a room. Sunlight is bright, white light that can change in tone depending on the environment and time of year.
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Task Lighting:
Lighting with the purpose of lighting where you will be working. This lighting is usually found under kitchen cupboards for cooking, above desks for working, or above workshop stations.
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Accent Lighting:
This lighting is used to highlight a specific item. It guides your eyes directly to what needs to be seen.
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Ambient Lighting:
Ambient lighting is the lighting that sets the tone for a room. It can be warm or very bright, but it isn't usually dim. It's also not directed at any part of the room, is a general cloak of light over the room/space.
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Grazing:
The type of lighting that lights an outside wall, pathway, or a hallway by having the lights close to the wall and pointed upwards. They are used to accentuate the architecture or wallpaper.
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Perimeter lights:
Lights used to light the room, but not cast highlights or shadows.
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Uplighting:
This type of lighting is often used in landscaping and events. Uplighting is lights that shine from the floor, reflecting on trees to highlight the landscape or up at the wall. This type of lighting creates a well lit, but not blinding atmosphere.
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Cove Lighting:
Cove lighting is a type of indirect lighting. This type of lighting is when the lighting is tucked away from sight. The light is generally very bright, but not harsh.
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Recessed Lighting:
This is lighting that is usually flush with the ceiling. This type of lighting is commonly found in movie theatres, home theatres or family sitting rooms.
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Drop Lighting:
This lighting is usually decorative and artful, doesn't always have to be functional. They are often chandeliers, the hanging Edison bulbs with cages around them, or just bare bulbs.
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Wall Washing:
This is lighting where the fixtures are fixed to the ceiling or high on the wall and angeled down. At this angle, the light will cast down and wide, literally washing the wall out with light.
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Sconce:
These are lights that are fixed to the wall. They are often very ornate, with the light bulbs exposed.
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2x2 or 2x4 Light Fixture:
The traditional light fixture that we see in schools and offices. This lighting is generally very bright and harsh.
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Incandescent Lighting:
Incandescent lights are the traditional light bulb. These bulbs are very in trend right now. You see them often in the barn-style weddings and gothic type chandeliers.
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Fluorescent Lighting:
This is more of an updated take on the 2x2 light fixtures that we see. This lighting is very bright, and evenly distributes light throughout the room.
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Creative Lighting (Holiday):
This lighting is what I think of when I think of ambient lighting. Its also probably the most recognizable type of lighting.
Natural Lighting: The creative use of positioning windows to use sunlight to light a room. Sunlight is bright, white light that can change in tone depending on the environment and time of year.
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