Your guide to a beautiful home

14 light ways to decorate your house

Sahil Khurana . Feb 14 2011

1. Firefly’s Nest Lamp

Picture this! A romantic moonlit sky with beautiful fireflies fluttering around, their golden light illuminating the sky creating a serene romantic movie scene. Tommaso Gecchelin, has come up with a high tech lamp recreating the above scene right in your home. 'Geometric Romance' is a lamp has been designed with electronic fuel, which is locomoted by a pump and powered by a wireless mechanism based in the lamp’s base. The best feature being that one touch and the color of the lamp changes.

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20100610301 qbkeh 37750

2. The Great Cassini

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cassini ca3724

STRASS Swarovski crystal or SPECTRA Swarovski Crystal could not have been done more justice than by the Cassini crystal chandelier. Taking its name from the famous renaissance astronomer, it depicts true extraterrestrial aura. Staying afloat with the help of an airline cable, this chandelier has never looked better. Out to win your hearts, this piece of exquisite shimmering diamonds will leave you smitten by its appearance. Being made in proportion to a dining room, the choices vary between oval and circular. Looking at it, you would be flown straight away to the memories of the Opera chandeliers, well known only in Vienna.

3. Motion-sensitive decorative LED lights

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led lighting znpko 24702 du8et 37750

Worried that you might forget to turn off the lights, when stepping out of the house? Exclusively crafted for contemporary interiors are the unique LED lighting designs of Song Myung-Su Gallery with motion sensitive lamps, will take care of your woes. The moment someone steps into a room where these are positioned, the motion sensors adhered help the lamp blush with radiance when lights sense the movement. Gone are the days when the wrinkles use to crease your forehead at the name of electricity bills. Sit back and relax, while enjoying the view.

4. Fiber optics lighting

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light 4 xbt5v 1822 ssv1r 37750

British designer, Fay McCaul has taken the pledge to light up your space with a difference. Clubbing age-old knitting and modern hi-tech resources, he made sure to give its buyers best of both the past and the present. UV fibre optics and Electro-luminescent wires make up these knitted lights which will illuminate your homes.

5. Liquid Lights

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liquid lights

Reinventing the phrase 'Bombs away' is the phrase, 'drops away. Every one of us wants to have something that is unique in itself, and yet, conveys that extra sparkle to our homes.

Tanya Clarke, using recycled plumbing pieces and hand sculpted glass drops has brainstormed a unique way of lighting up your home. Using the concept of 'Liquid lights', she promises to add a dash of serenity imbibed with LED lights. Being a rare concept, the designer has fused LEDs into dropping glass lights. I definitely would like to add one to my collection. How about you?

6. Paranoid flexible floor LED light

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paranoid floor light 01 1yufx 24429 syzgr 37750

Bring home the Ligne Roset Paranoid flexible floor lights by Swann Bourotte. Actually aside from looking totally fab, they leave you completely floored. The 25 dimmable LEDs are available in a magnitude of shapes; spherical, round or box like. Some of the designs are so inimitable; they can hardly be classified into any particular shape. Not much to say for they talk about themselves.

7. Matrix crystal pendants

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matrix kindle light

Matrix crystal pendants are another variety of the STRASS Swarovski Crystal that are expressed in the form of a hollow cube. Well, they certainly don’t fail to amaze my wits out. Commonly known as the Matrix, these lights can leave you swooning on your feet. With an array of color display, these pendants can appear in rectangular or cylindrical shapes. These pendants prove to be quite practical over counters and table tops. By producing a powerful down light, they wonderfully light up the room, without even once hurting the eyes of the viewer.

8. Nature inspired Odue lightings

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odue lights 4uz2z 1822 q983w 37750

Odue, the master of modern lamps and lights, has come up with nature based ideas, tweaked according to modern fashion statements. Amalgamating classy designs into nature based themes; they have outlived everyone’s expectations. Offering on sale are the unusual lamp shapes, armed with classy lamp shades dabbed in beautiful colors. Their cuteness quotient is what touches the soul through and through, making you feel like carrying them all home with you. Which one will you buy today?

9. Flexible lightings by Mihaela Stojanova

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the stylish and innovative lighting system offers

Supple and trendy, Mihaela Stojanova has come up with a lighting scheme suiting both commercial and residential interiors. Carved out of twin layer white polycarbonate slanted sheets it mimics boat sails to blush up impeccably. Perfect for contemporary interiors it’s separated by the implanted light in two layers fixed on the inner layer. Intensity of light fluctuates with diverse colors that the unit features like green, cyan or magenta. It can be easily wedged on the wall because if the presence of a metal tube base that each unit has.

10. Adjustable LED Desk Lamp:

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nemo chain led desk lamp eslud 37750

What is made of aluminium, lit by 4 bright white (1- watt) LED’s, has an articulating flexible body and folds flat when you don’t want to use it? If you are not able to guess, then fret not. Designed by Illara Marelli for Nemo Italianluce, this device can help you replace your old boring lamp. If still not able to guess it, never mind. Costing $595 USD, this product has been christened the Chain Lamp, for its utter beauty and elegance. Standing tall at a height if 22”, it can measure up to just 2.75” when closed.

Available at a street price of $450, the Chain Lamp can light up your table with its glory itself. Bought a new iMac and looking to partner it up with a table light which contributes its part in the magnificence, then just head over to the CSN Lighting and bring home the Chain Lamp.

11. Museum-Quality LED Lamps by Koncept Technologie

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at neocon09 museum quality led lamps by koncept te

Welcome to the next generation of lamp shades. Z-Bar High Power LED Desk Lamp, is an innovation of the future. Owing to its design and flexibility, the contraption consumes lesser electricity while combining excellence with utility. With a built in step dimmer, it has been awarded strictly for its design and excellence. Available in daylight and warm light models. So choose the one according to your taste

12. Blown Fabric Lights by Nendo look:

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blown fabric light fixture installation by nendo 0

Now this is creativity matched with utter excellence. Nendo has come up with the idea of Blown Fabric Lights for the Tokyo Fiber 09 Senseware exhibition. Using the concept of glass blowing, these lights ingeniously use a tool smash, a long woven fibre non woven polyester capable of being manipulated into multiple artistic forms using a hot press form technology. The aluminium forms provide little anchors inside the blown lights and the LED’s adorned inside add glamor by their light. Wondrous pieces of creativity, I must comment.

13. High-tech Light concrete

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light transmitting concrete material a av7jb 37750

Litracon, is all out to change the image of concrete in out minds, literally. By employing creative and sustainable applications to the concept of concrete, they are preparing patented light transmitting concrete. Intrigued? Well, certainly anyone would be. Usually, if one stands behind a solid concrete wall, nothing would be visible. But, as per Litracon’s products optical fibers run from one end to the other inside the poured piece of concrete allowing them to transmit light through them. The optical fibers have the capability to transmit light to over 50feet and the best thing being they occupy a very limited piece in the concrete block, thereby allowing structural capabilities of the poured pieces.

Developing this concrete interspersed with optical fibers would allow you to get the desired strength for your walls along with a designed way of building the house at no extra charge. Flexibility personified.

14. Ra Table Lamp:

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ra lamp nvyem 37750

Right out of the history comes the design for this light. Fused with modern technology, with history lending a helping hand for the design, you could think the structure to be a 2 headed snake, or right out of Sci Fi’s Stargate SG-1. Designed by Ettore Cimini, RA as the name goes is made out of steel and technopolymers and works on touch control. Comprised of two adjustable arms, this lamp transmits light through fiber optics and has three included filters. Ideal for office spaces or work tables, the plus point with this lamp shade is, it hardly takes up any space.