In North America one of the rooms people like to make a statement in is the bedroom. I am talking about the furnishings and lighting arrangement just so you can stay on track.
As a prime example; if you use the right Table lamps lighting technique on your bedroom furniture dressers you can fully accent all of the pieces of the entire bedroom in one fell swoop.
The tactic here is to understand the position of the largest piece in the room and for almost everyone that piece will be their Bedroom Furniture Beds. This is the one single piece that has the ability to block the most amount of lighting and thereby cause the greatest dead spot areas and shadow sections.
It is rather easy to get rid of this little annoyance if you simply employ the right tactic. Or you can forever stand there moving a lamp 6 inches this way or 12 inches that way never getting rid of all those shadowy dead spots and just generally getting frustrated.
The tactic for getting rid of them is very easy and simple. You employ a tactic called crossover lighting. Don’t worry, it’s not at all techie and can be done in just a couple of minutes flat. The perfect example is that most people line up there largest bedroom furniture dressers right in front of the end of their bed, which makes this super easy.
You place a table lamp or floor lamp whichever you happen to prefer at the farthest outside reaches of the dresser that is lined up with the bed. Or if you are using floor lamps you put them at both ends of the dresser. The trick is that you want them to extend out past the sides of the foot board on your bed.
Next, you if you’re like most people myself included you will usually have two nightstands one each on opposite sides of the head board end of your bed. You then very simply place a lamp on each of your nightstands. Sounds too easy right? But think about it, you now have light sources on both sides of the bed one source directed from the foot board and another light source directed from the head board region.
each of your light sources on each end now cross over each other and you have just learned they interior designer secret of eliminating dead spots with crossover lighting. Wait until you see the results. You will be able to wale all around the bed and the room and should not see any major shadows anywhere at all.
You may find however that if you have a very high tall boy style additional dresser in the room that one edge of it may not be perfectly lit. This can be resolved with the positioning of another floor lamp or believe it or not a plug in nightlight style tiny lamp.
If you happen to have a wall socket on that side then put a small plug in lamp there and you should be good to go. Be sure that when you’re considering any lighting arrangement that all of your lighting fixtures are UL rated at the highest level for your safety.
