Unfortunately, most interior design magazines and websites make the same mistake: they say almost nothing about home lighting design. If you take a look at your favorite interior design magazine, you'll notice something interesting: the lights are almost always off. Aside from the occasional lamp or other accent light, photographers don't try to represent actual lighting in those magazines. Instead, they reduce lighting design to picking lighting fixtures as though they were furniture. True lighting design is completely absent.

Home-lighting-design.com takes a completely different approach. Step by step, room by room and fixture by fixture, we show you how to easily integrate your lights and lamps into an overall plan for your rooms that illuminates every aspect of your interior design. How we light our homes shapes how we see our homes, and we help you to make the choices that are right for you.

Lighting design doesn't affect what we see but how we see it.

Instead, anyone can learn home lighting design! In fact, it's simply a matter of asking a few simple questions and knowing what answers you are looking for:

• What overall level of light do I want in this room?
• What colors do I want to bring out in my furniture, walls and other decorations?
• What kind of contrasts do I want between the brighter and darker areas in my rooms?
• What kind of shadows and pools of light do I want to use to decorate my rooms?
• How will this room look in the day as well as the night?
• And finally, how will this light fixture look as a decoration in itself?

By going through this list, it's easy to make the decisions about lighting design that are best for the style and mood that you want in your home.

To do so, we've divided the information into sections. Some deal with individual rooms that have their own lighting needs, especially the kitchen and bathroom, which need lighting that can be used for special tasks as well as for general illumination. Others deal with kinds of fixtures that could be used in multiple rooms, and how to use them depending on where they are placed. Finally, there are sections on outdoor and solar home lighting, which need different sorts of strategies to deal with the relative lack of wall and ceiling space.

If you're interested in finding solutions for home lighting that take into account your personal needs and style, you have certainly come to the right place!