Cove lighting - The interior design secret

While lighting arrangement, an essential element in home design, can significantly enhance the room’s appearance and leave an impact on our life, cove light has more to offer as it does not only light up the room softly but also bring an aesthetic appeal to our living space. Let’s together find out what cove lighting is and our suggestions where to place it.

Cove lighting is a popular lighting technique, in which the light source is hidden in a cove, on sides of a room to provide overall diffuse illumination. Instead of illuminating directly throughout the room, it directs lights upwards to the ceiling and down to an adjacent wall where its lighting fixtures are concealed. This setting helps soothing eyes with soft, warm, glowing light, without extreme glare, establishing a cozy, welcoming vibe that encourages relaxation and informality.

Coving lights represent a powerful lighting solution since it allows the use of various types of light fixtures (incandescent, xenon, fluorescent, LED lighting). We can let our creativity bloom when thinking about its application, from adding an understated elegance to our space to highlighting decorative objects with dramatic effects, while hiding unpleasant design features without affecting the lighting quality.

Where to install cove lighting?

The living room

The living room must be the place we would choose first to install cove lights since it is the space for family gatherings and spending quality time.

Following daytime bright sunlight, cove lighting shall create a relaxed and soothing ambience for the room after sunset. The lighting fixtures are commonly found in faux ceilings. Without cove lights, those beautifully designed ceilings would simply fade into the background.

A faux ceiling is illuminated by cove lights.

Cove lighting can also create a shimmering look,  giving understated elegance, and richness to the room when it is paired with curtains. This option is definitely worth our attention if we want to give an impression of a higher ceiling.

Curtains and cove lights are used to decorate the room. 

The bedroom

Say goodbye to the boring bedroom.

Look at how this bedroom changes before and after installing cove lighting. The indirect lighting in the bed’s headboard illuminates a soft glow on the wall, creating a truly relaxing ambiance and a sublime mood. Moreover, this allure is similar to a hidden window to the outside, where the sunlight flows in, gently waking us up in the morning. This type of lighting can also work as a primary light source for the bedroom as its subtle lights can prevent eye strain.

In the passage 

We can make use of the cove lights’ dramatic effect to highlight decorative objects or furniture elements. This feature of cove lighting is extensively used in galleries and commercial spaces to provide a suitable mood and effortlessly form an eye-catching detail. At home, a simple strip light fixed within the wall panelling can not only illuminate the passage but also create an impressive visual effect.

A creative passage

If we want to breathe a new life into our house, don’t miss the chance to try cove lightings, a subtle yet powerful technique.

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