Accent Lighting: How to Take Your Room from Now to WOW!

1. Create "pools" of light by replacing translucent lampshades on your table and floor lamps with opaque ones. This allows lighting for tasks such as reading but also provides areas of shadow to maximize other lighting effects. It is also an effective way to spotlight a grouping of family photos on a table.

2. Use landscape lighting techniques inside on your plants and sculpture. Study nature