Living Room Lighting Guides
The room you actually sit in after dark — seven guides on layers, light-starved rooms, low ceilings, picture lights, cordless lamps, plaster wall lights and wall-light heights.
The 3-Layer Formula for a Living Room You Actually Want to Sit In
General, task, accent — the structure designers build every room from, and how to add the layers yours is missing.
Start hereii.How to Light a North-Facing Room
Grey, sunless daylight all year — the warm daytime layers that correct it.
5 miniii.Lighting for Low Ceilings
Style without the headroom — the fittings and placements for rooms under 2.3m.
5 miniv.How to Choose a Picture Light: Size, Position, and Rechargeable vs Wired
Half to two-thirds the width of the frame, fixed just above it — and the rechargeable-or-wired decision.
8 minv.Cordless Table Lamps: Battery Life, Charging, and Where They Actually Work
Honest run times and real brightness — where a lamp with no flex earns its place, and where it doesn't.
7 minvi.How to Paint Plaster Wall Lights (So They Look Built In)
Seal it, two thin coats, never the lampholder — how a plaster wall light disappears into the wall.
9 minvii.How High Should Wall Lights Be? The Heights for Every Room
1.5–1.7m to the centre of the fitting — plus the numbers for stairs, bedsides and bathroom mirrors, and how far apart.
8 min