Lighting Ideas For Basement Family Room

Uplighting Creates an Elegant Ambience

Uplighting involves directing a light source at the ceiling instead of horizontally to the room or down toward the ground. Uplighting creates a calming, even lighting without glare or shadows.

Multiple Sources of Light

The desk is offset in the window to avoid having to start looking into glaring sunlight while functioning. The desk is illuminated by daylight-spectrum florescent tubes behind a window that is false; frosted glass diffuses the light. The false ceiling over the desk not only conceals heating, plumbing, and wiring chases, it houses a quartet of recessed lighting fixtures and, behind a valance, a fixture along it's edge that reflects light. Uplights on the desk add to the ambience--and also to the light.

Industrial-Style Lighting

The simple metal-and-glass pendant lights shown here are some refinement of lights used to illuminate everything from factories to gyms, and they complement the minimalist exposed-beam ceiling of the industrial-style basement.

Pendant Lighting Fixtures

Based on their design, pendant lights may offer focused task lighting, overall ambient illumination, or even vibrant accent lighting. A mobilelike fixture, like the one is coupled with a dimmer switch, letting you dial precisely the ideal amount of light to suit the occasion and your mood.