“Ambient lighting” refers to diffuse light that fills a room in general, rather than illuminating particular spaces. Of all the rooms, the dining room is perhaps the most difficult to create mood lighting. Many dining room lighting fixtures are not diffuse and use beams of light instead of sheer curtains. As a result, the dining room light can often be quite strong. Unfortunately, it is also the room where the softest, diffuse light is the most important. In this article, I’ll discuss two important tips for creating ambience in your dining room. These tips will soften your light and make it more pleasant.
Tip No. # 1: Just pretend to light with your chandelier: Chandeliers are beautiful, but they are generally horrible light sources. Many chandeliers have open bulbs that are unsightly and create glare. Also, because your chandelier is usually directly above the dining room table, the chandelier will reflect the glow from the top of the dining room table. Also, the rays of a chandelier come from people’s faces, creating shadows that make them look older.
Instead, just pretend to light up with your chandelier. Consider your candle holder more as a decorative accessory than a functional one. Indeed, it must be treated as Christmas trees are treated: they are there as decoration. Instead, the actual functional lighting in your dining room should come from other light sources.
Tip No. # 2: use walls and ceilings to reflect light: The simplest way to generate ambient light is to reflect beams from ceilings and walls. For example, you can use wall sconces that illuminate the wall upward and then reflect into the room as a whole. Alternatively, you can use torches (floor lamps that shine upwards) to illuminate the ceiling, allowing the light to reflect downwards. Don’t forget how powerful the mirrors are as they can provide even more ambient light from the reflected ceiling inside.
With these two tips, you can easily generate quality ambient light for your dining room. It is just a matter of the apparent light sources being different from the actual sources.