Discover the Types and Uses of Natural Lighting Styles

Working with natural lighting styles is all about introducing, or highlighting, natural elements in your home. Whether that’s by introducing lighting that features natural materials, or with lighting that highlights the existing natural elements in your space.

Using Natural Lighting Styles – What are the Benefits?

1. We currently live in a world that is so busy and predominately tech focused, so bringing a little bit of nature back into our homes, creates a calming and serene space for us to unwind from the day to day.

2. Natural lighting styles can help ‘bring the outdoors in”. Materials such as timber, stone, bamboo, and rattan, help to create a connection to the outdoors within our home. This is important to so many of us who spend a lot of our working life indoors.

3. Natural lighting styles and materials compliment many decors, themes, and colour palettes, and so, are a versatile option for lighting. The neutral tones of organic materials make them the perfect compliment to any style, design or colour.

Bringing in more natural lighting styles means you can change your décor, or your colour scheme, without the need to always change your light fittings. And, by the same token, swapping out your old light fitting for something more organic, can transform an existing space into something completely new and inviting.

4. Natural elements can help you connect with a space. Use of more organic materials in lighting can help transform your existing spaces into something warm and inviting, creating spaces to which we have an emotional connection.

5. Natural lighting styles that use organic elements as their feature can help can act as a backdrop of neutral tones and colour and allow your style to shine through other décor and furnishings. Alternatively, those same organic elements can become the hero of your own organic style.

6. Add texture and interest to a room. A simple timber pendant light can transform a space with shadows and warmth.

Using natural lighting styles doesn’t only have to be about bringing in more organic elements. Lighting can also be the perfect way to highlight some of the more natural elements that already exist within your home to create the same calm and connection with your space.

This might be the timber beams on your ceiling, or the exposed brick wall, or the timber floor boards that line your stairs. Highlighting these features with the right lighting can help create that feeling of warmth and serenity within your space.

What Types of Lighting Best Reflect Natural Elements?

When we talk types of lighting there are two factors to consider – lighting design and the material used to create that design.

If we talk about the obvious first, one of the most used, and most loved, natural elements in lighting is timber. Natural timber helps to bring a sense of warmth to a space.

Other organic lighting materials might include stone, rattan, cane, bamboo, or hand blown glass. All these materials help to create that sense of flow with the indoors and the outdoors.

Another way to help create that flow is by selecting the right lighting design. Lighting that has been designed to throw shadow lines within a space, for instance, will create an instant feeling of warmth. Glass lighting, is also perfect for ensuring continued eye lines through spaces and rooms, allowing the indoors and outdoors to flow, without obstruction.

Another important consideration in your natural lighting choice is how the natural materials of your fitting are put together as a final design. A lot of the beauty in natural elements is reflected in their inherently unstructured and informal nature. Make sure your natural light fittings reflect, at least in some way, their inherent natural untamed state.

Combining natural elements with man-made materials is also a lighting trend that allows you to make the best of both worlds. If you are not quite ready to make a statement with a large rattan pendant light amongst your industrial décor, then consider a blend of both worlds.

Rovert Lighting & Electrical have a large range of lighting options to help you introduce natural lighting styles to your home..  Call in and see our large display, or visit us online.