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Living Room
The living room has more jobs than any other room in the house.
About Living Room
Layered Light and Easy Comfort for the Living Room
The living room has more jobs than any other room in the house. It hosts movie nights, slow Sunday reading, guests after dinner and homework spread across the coffee table, so one ceiling light rarely covers it. This collection pulls together what makes the room work: modern and classic chandeliers for the center, floor lamps and table lamps for the corners, picture lights for the art, and the soft pieces that make it comfortable, from curtains and throw blankets to poufs, ottomans and floor cushions.
Layer the light in three steps
- Ambient: Start with an overhead fixture that lights the whole room evenly. A handy sizing rule for a chandelier is to add the room's length and width in feet and use that number, in inches, as the fixture's diameter.
- Task: Put a reading light beside every seat where someone actually reads. An arc floor lamp reaches over a sofa without needing a side table, and a telescopic floor lamp adjusts to the chair next to it.
- Accent: Use picture lights over art or a bookshelf, and a paper or glass lamp on a console. RGB corner floor lamps and sunset projector lamps add color for a movie night.
Bulb warmth: Keep the main lamps in the warm white range, around 2700K to 3000K, so skin tones and wood look natural in the evening. Put the overhead light on a dimmer where you can, and let the lamps carry the room after dark.
Finish the room
Once the light is right, the decor falls into place. Decorative trays corral remotes and candles on the coffee table, candle holders and decorative objects fill out a bookshelf, and photo frames and wall decor give the eye somewhere to land. Floor cushions and poufs add seating for guests without crowding the floor, and curtains and drapes soften daylight glare on the TV.
For a full walk through, read how to layer lighting in a living room, or browse floor lamps and picture lights.
Common Questions About Living Room
Most living rooms feel best with three or four light sources at different heights: an overhead fixture, one or two floor lamps and a table lamp or accent light. Spreading them around the room avoids dark corners and lets you switch off the ceiling light in the evening.
Warm white, around 2700K to 3000K, is the comfortable choice for evenings and suits wood, fabric and skin tones. Cooler light can feel harsh after dark. Color changing lamps are a fun extra for movie nights, but keep the main lamps warm.
Yes. With 8 foot ceilings, choose a compact or low profile design and keep at least 7 feet of clearance under it where people walk. Over a coffee table the drop can be a little lower, since nobody walks through that spot.
