4 Tips to Spruce Up Your Home with Vintage Lights

Lakshmi Chand Singh

Architect

Anchor: Jhumur Nandy

Lighting is one of the fundamental elements of interior design. It is essential for setting the mood and ambience of a space. Vintage light fixtures, with their robust designs and antique finishes make for some quirky home décor elements. When coordinated with the theme and sentiment attached to a space, vintage lights bring unmatched luxury and resplendence. From ornate glass chandeliers to wall sconces, geometric table lamps and industrial themed Edison bulbs, vintage fittings have redefined the essence of luxe lighting. Lakshmi Chand Singh, Founding Partner, HomesbyDesign shares some interesting tips on how you can beautify your home with vintage lights.

Exercise caution: An important consideration while installing vintage lights is to be careful about how well they complement the space. They may end up sticking out like sore thumbs if assembled as an afterthought or used in isolation.One should see to it that these lights are positioned strategically and sparingly. Overdoing kills the essence.
Complement other lights: These fixtures are ideally meant for accent lighting since their design is generally more ostentatious than utilitarian. They may not be conducive to ambient or task lighting. It may be reasonable, then to consider using them with other lighting combinations. Generally, mood and ambient lighting are compatible with vintage lights. In addition, task lighting for specific tasks such as reading may also serve well.
Enhance the thematic style: Another point to note is that vintage lights are an intrinsic part of the interior design palette. They may be used to accessorize an industrial, classical or retro themed setting, or as a locus of contrast in a relatively modern environment.
Selecting the right fixture: Vintage lamps are known for being grandiose. They immediately add splendour to interiors and can generate a subtle focus on the architectural details in your home. Their illumination is often meant to emulate the effects of candlelight from medieval times. Some of these fixtures mimic the radiance of gas lamps. Teamed with incandescent or filament bulbs, the right combination will liven up your home dramatically.

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Lakshmi Chand Singh

Architect

Lakshmi trained as an architect at the Sushant School of Architecture in New Delhi. She spent a number of years practicing in Singapore working on projects that varied in scale from small residences to larger developmental work. On returning to India, she became a partner in the studio RLDA an architectural consultancy firm based out of New Delhi.Â Lakshmi also established and runs Design x Design, a multi-disciplinary platform, that promotes cross pollination of ideas among members of various design fields.

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