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The Ultimate Lighting Guide For Your Home

November 3, 2021 By Kari Leave a Comment

Tips from the pros at Simone & Ivy on how to pick, style, and properly hang lighting. Here’s the Ultimate Lighting Guide For Your Home!

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Lighting can be so overwhelming – especially when you don’t have a hot clue what you’re doing (like me)! I’m so happy my friends at Simone & Ivy – the most beautiful Canadian home store – have come to the rescue with some tips for mastering the lighting game in your home.

In case you missed it, The Simone & Ivy team did an unbelievable revamp of our guest room earlier this year! Check out all the before and after photos, with links to shop here. 

The Ultimate Lighting Guide For Your Home-2The Ultimate Lighting Guide For Your Home-3Determine the Type of Lighting You Want

  • Ambient: the main source of light in a room, most often coming from an overhead light or recessed lighting.
  • Task lighting: made for specific activities or uses such as sconces for nighttime reading, a desktop lamp, or a light above a vanity mirror.
  • Accent lighting: the most decorative of the three types of lighting that play up architectural elements or a decorative focal point like a fireplace, built-ins, or piece of art.

The Ultimate Lighting Guide For Your Home-4Determine The Style of Lighting

  • Flush mounts: generally used in rooms with lower ceilings, smaller rooms, or where you don’t want to make a big statement with a chandelier.
  • Chandeliers: statement fixtures that hang down from the ceiling. They are often used over dining tables, in larger living rooms, or entryways and large foyers.
  • Pendants: similar to chandeliers in that they hang down from the ceiling, but they are a smaller scale and usually have just one lightbulb. You’ll often see pendants over islands. Because they are smaller scale, they are often hung in groups such as 2 or 3.

The Ultimate Lighting Guide For Your Home-6Determine The Size

You want a fixture big enough for the space that doesn’t look proportionately too small.

  • For ambient lighting, measure the length and width of the room. Then add them together and convert them to inches. This will give you the ideal size for your light fixture. For example, a 20” wide fixture would be ideal for a 10×10’ room.
  • When figuring out the properly sized pendant for your kitchen island, measure the length of your island. Then, decide if you like the look of 2 or 3 pendants. If you go with 3 pendants, the pendant size can be smaller, but if you go with 2 pendants, they should be more oversized. After measuring the island, take into account the amount of space needed between each pendant. A good rule of thumb is the space between the pendants should be larger than the diameter of the pendant (30-32” apart is fairly standard). Make sure to leave 6 inches of clearance on both ends of the island so no pendant hangs over the edge.
  • For dining room lights, look for chandeliers that are ½ to ⅔ the size of your dining room table for a proportionate size.

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The Ultimate Lighting Guide For Your Home-8

Determine Which Way The Light Should Shine

  • Up Lights – give a room a brighter, more high energy feel
  • Down Lights – create an instant intimate and cozy mood

The Ultimate Lighting Guide For Your Home-9General Rules For Hanging Lights

  • Pendants over an island – allow 30-32” clearance between the surface of the island and the bottom of the light.
  • Fixture over a dining room – allow 33-34” clearance between the table and the bottom of the light.
  • Pendants not over a table or island – make sure to have 7’ clearance between the floor and the bottom of the fixture and 4’ from surrounding walls.
  • When hanging a fixture in a great room, place the lighting fixture in the centre of the room or the centre of the main vignette.
    In a two-storey room, hang no lower than the point of the 2nd floor
  • Wall sconces – for side-mounting, leave 60–65” of space between the floor and the midpoint of the sconce backplate.

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Pin this to your Lighting Tips and Home Lighting I Love boards and don’t forget to follow me on Pinterest here!

I was so thrilled to partner with my friends at Simone + Ivy for this project! As always, thoughts and opinions are my own.

 

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when you feel like you've hit your max bump but th when you feel like you've hit your max bump but there's still nine weeks to go. 😳

It's truly amazing what our bodies can do. 💛

#31weeks #sunsoutbumpsout #beachball
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I’ll be keeping this piece of art forever. Wyatt painted this for me back in January, when I was isolated with Covid. I taped it up on the wall beside the bed during my stay in our guest room. If you zoom in, you’ll see me in the front with the big baby belly. (Wyatt calls me ‘big belly’ these days!)

Rainbows represent promise, hope, and new beginnings. 

It's been a rough past few weeks for our family, hence my absence online. Thank you so much for your messages of love, concern, and support. They mean so much to us. I know I share a lot with you on here, but I’m not going to get into details this time. Just know we're doing alright. Junebug is great (and kicking and rolling around non-stop!), Wyatt is awesome per usual, and Ryan and I are rock solid.

I had to take a break from work. My main focus has always been (and will
always be) protecting the peace, health, and well-being of our family unit. 

Social media can be a beautiful place where connection and inspiration happens. Unfortunately, it can also foster hurtful and harmful attacks. I’ve learned so much over these past few weeks, and have deeply reflected on my presence and future plans online. I’ll share more soon, but for now, I just wanted to check in, say a sincere thanks, and let you know we’re all good. ❤️
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🤰I’m playing catchup on some pregnancy blog posts but I wanted to make sure this was up, especially for those who have been following our journey. 

👉 Head on over to KariSkelton.com for ‘Pregnancy Q&A: The First Trimester’ where I get into all of it. Link is in my bio.

❔️Please ask any questions. That’s the whole reason why I share about this. I believe sharing our experiences and personal stories helps all of us feel less alone and often validates what we’re going through. 

(If you can believe it, I took a video of the exact moment I found out but it disappeared from my files. Poof! Gone.💨 Of all the videos to lose…. 🙈 But very happy to have this photo).

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Contest Closed. Congrats to our winner @michelle_q Contest Closed. Congrats to our winner @michelle_quay! Thanks to all of you for entering! ❤

➡️ Giveaway! To celebrate @fresonbros first birthday tomorrow (Saturday, March 5), we’re giving away a $250 Freson Bros. GC! 🥳

You’re invited to pop down to the party between 11-5 to celebrate with us! 🎉There’s birthday torte, a whole bunch of perks, specialty tastings, and additional in-store giveaways, including a beautiful Camp Chef XT Wood Pellet Grill! 🙆‍♀️

To enter our $250 GC Giveaway:

👉 Make sure you follow me @kariskelton and @fresonbros.

👉 Like this post.

👉 tag some friends who would love this!

✨️ Bonus entry: Head to KariSkelton.com and leave a comment on my ‘Freson Bros. Turns One’ blog post (make sure to add your IG handle in that comment so we know who you are). 

*This giveaway is open to Canadian residents only and is in no way endorsed or supported by Instagram. The winner must be able to pick up the $250 gift card prize at Freson Bros. Edmonton 5139 Mullen Rd. Contest closes Friday, March 4 at 11:59 pm MST. The winner will be announced on this post before 9 a.m MST Saturday, March 5. 

🚨*PLEASE watch out for impersonation accounts that unfortunately sometimes pop up during giveaways. I will only reach out to you via DM from my account (@kariskelton) to confirm your win and then we’ll coordinate details via email only.
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