Keep furniture lines clean and streamlined without embellishments to avoid a crowded dark look.
Lighting ideas for a room with no windows.
Choose furniture with slim and lifting legs which exposes more of your floor giving a windowless room the illusion that it s lighter and brighter.
Since you don t have a window picking out the correct lighting fixtures will make or break your space.
In a wine cellar or a games room use angle poise spots that you can use to direct on to the area you are interested in.
If light can t reach your window it certainly won t be able to brighten your room.
A centered ceiling fixture or can lights are great for lighting the whole space while a pair of wall mounted sconces on either side of a vanity mirror are both practical and pretty says maggie griffin the founder and principal designer at maggie griffin design.
This living room by kenneth brown on homeportfolio shows the power of strategic lighting in a windowless room.
Adding windows to a doorway by converting to french doors also gives the eye that sense of peeking out into a space beyond and lets a new ambient light source in even if the adjacent room.
Recessed fixtures are ideal for a windowless room because they provide subtle lighting that you can scatter across the ceiling to distribute light more effectively.
There are no overly dark corners in this warm library.
The eye is drawn to specific places thanks to the lighted artworks and accent lighting is placed all around the room so that there s a generally even amount of it.