| Right now, it seems, lighting choice for | | | | casual elegant lighting, which is |
| the home are more about style and less | | | | nowhere near as lackluster, but is |
| about illumination. Truly, it appears | | | | rather now moving toward a more refined |
| that, based on recent sales, more and | | | | and graceful appearance. |
| more consumers are looking for lighting | | | | Not surprisingly, as focus on living |
| options that add to the décor, not just | | | | "greener" has become the mainstream |
| make it glow. From the | | | | ideal, consumers are demanding-and |
| ultra-traditional to the most | | | | receiving-energy-efficient lighting |
| fashionable contemporary among us, | | | | options for home interiors. From |
| lighting choices are taking off in a new | | | | compatibility with energy-saving bulbs |
| direction. Consumers do not pick up any | | | | to materials manufactured with the least |
| lamp now; rather, they choose the | | | | amount of negative environmental impact |
| perfect addition to the room's | | | | possible, lighting designers and |
| decorative elements. | | | | manufacturers are responding with |
| Material-wise, designers are becoming | | | | eco-friendly fixtures for |
| much more open to the mediums they use. | | | | environmentally-conscious consumers. |
| Combining the delicate silk shades with | | | | There does not need to be a compromise |
| industrious wrought iron, or brushed | | | | on style, either. To be certain, some |
| nickel topped with floral patterns, | | | | of the most desirable fixtures are also |
| seems to be the newest trend in | | | | the most visually appealing. |
| lighting. The mixture of design | | | | All in all, lighting trends are moving |
| elements allows consumers to show their | | | | in a direction more indicative of |
| own style and unique tastes through the | | | | creating an elegance, a softness, to all |
| luminary selections in their homes. | | | | décor, regardless of the genre. Quality |
| This mixture of design elements is quite | | | | is of utmost importance, from the |
| popular, as the typical genres are | | | | materials used to the energy that will |
| combining, making the lines of | | | | be consumed. Appearance, too, seems to |
| distinction between, say, traditional | | | | be factoring into lighting choices among |
| and contemporary, much less defined. | | | | consumers, who are focusing on the |
| Nonetheless, the same genres of design | | | | decorative impressions that the lighting |
| are tending to lead the pack, with | | | | fixtures can have on a room. A lamp is |
| traditional lighting at the forefront of | | | | no longer just a lamp, but a point of |
| the market. However, the traditional | | | | interest in the room. Fixtures that |
| style is less ostentatious and more | | | | flow with the décor and appear to be |
| about creating that classic look in a | | | | made "just for" the room are what |
| cleaner style. Contemporary is huge, | | | | consumers want, and lighting designers |
| too, but not as eclectic or harsh as it | | | | like Bungalow lighting are giving it to |
| once was perceived to be. And of | | | | them. |
| course, there is still the category of | | | | |