Lighting: 10 Inspiring Ways to Brighten Your Stairwell - Unless you live in a contemporary house or a beautiful loft, the staircase is usually the only double height space in your home . But despite its lofty dimensions and shape often interesting, the staircase can become rather ignored. All we too often treat the stairs and the space around them as just part of the house to get through, on our way between floors, but the architecture of this region has huge potential for design and, in particular, for the fatty lighting. To illustrate based on this idea, here's a roundup of super cages flamboyant staircase with shiny, bright style.
Boutique Homes
Get more bang for your bulb
Transforming a single bulb enclosing within a large lampshade globe. This design is the random light by Bertjan Pot for Moooi. It is made from tempered glass fiber in epoxy resin, creating a rope-like finish that lets the light and creates beautiful shadows, too.
Transforming a single bulb enclosing within a large lampshade globe. This design is the random light by Bertjan Pot for Moooi. It is made from tempered glass fiber in epoxy resin, creating a rope-like finish that lets the light and creates beautiful shadows, too.
Christopher Simmonds Architect
Use color
You do not need fancy chandeliers or expensive fixtures to add drama to your stairwell. Just go big and bright, choosing an oversized lampshade in a bold color that will fill the space with the shape and energy by day and night.
You do not need fancy chandeliers or expensive fixtures to add drama to your stairwell. Just go big and bright, choosing an oversized lampshade in a bold color that will fill the space with the shape and energy by day and night.
General Assembly
Try a combination
Stairwells, especially inside of a home that does not get much natural light, need good lighting to ensure their safety. So try a combination of practical and decorative pendant downlights lighting. Here, high ceiling keep each illuminated strip to reduce the risk of accidents, while a single light pendant trio adds some decorative details. The soft light that also helps product to choose reclaimed wood used to coat the wall stair.
More ideas for your special stairs
Stairwells, especially inside of a home that does not get much natural light, need good lighting to ensure their safety. So try a combination of practical and decorative pendant downlights lighting. Here, high ceiling keep each illuminated strip to reduce the risk of accidents, while a single light pendant trio adds some decorative details. The soft light that also helps product to choose reclaimed wood used to coat the wall stair.
More ideas for your special stairs
match overshadow the stairwell
for a harmonious effect, take the shape of your staircase and any retailer on the railings, stairs or handrails as inspiration for light you hang above. This color corresponds to the square, straight to the stairs, and black frame echoes the dark wood handrails.
for a harmonious effect, take the shape of your staircase and any retailer on the railings, stairs or handrails as inspiration for light you hang above. This color corresponds to the square, straight to the stairs, and black frame echoes the dark wood handrails.
Reid Architects
Choose something decorative
If you stick your thumb on the exuberant pendant light in this image, the staircase has always beautifully contemporary air, but maybe a bit sterile. This is the power of a great pendant light! In a modern interior otherwise sleek and elegant, it can add a form button, detail and humor.
If you stick your thumb on the exuberant pendant light in this image, the staircase has always beautifully contemporary air, but maybe a bit sterile. This is the power of a great pendant light! In a modern interior otherwise sleek and elegant, it can add a form button, detail and humor.
Mitchell Berry Architects
Install lights wall
A simple, clean, projectors installed next to the stairs ensure the treads are well-lit. Assemble the right next steps or, as here, a little above the wall.
A simple, clean, projectors installed next to the stairs ensure the treads are well-lit. Assemble the right next steps or, as here, a little above the wall.
Keep natural
This staircase is flooded with light natural from the above glass roof, but even a simple light wells would be effective to shoot in daylight and brightening the lower floor. White walls and floors all help to maximize the natural light.
This staircase is flooded with light natural from the above glass roof, but even a simple light wells would be effective to shoot in daylight and brightening the lower floor. White walls and floors all help to maximize the natural light.
Folio Design London
Hang lights at different heights
a series of pendant individual lights, suspended at different heights, creating a bright link between floors. This magnificent group of lights is visible from all over the stairs and looks stylish saw two floor, too.
a series of pendant individual lights, suspended at different heights, creating a bright link between floors. This magnificent group of lights is visible from all over the stairs and looks stylish saw two floor, too.
Future Light Design
Have fun with the flex
since the fall of the top floor ceiling and the lower level in a stairwell is often large, it is important to think about the style of the flex and the light. These simple bulbs are attached to chunky chords, bringing a nautical feel and some earthy texture to this elegant stairwell.
Read more tips for planning a lighting system
since the fall of the top floor ceiling and the lower level in a stairwell is often large, it is important to think about the style of the flex and the light. These simple bulbs are attached to chunky chords, bringing a nautical feel and some earthy texture to this elegant stairwell.
Read more tips for planning a lighting system
sporadicSPACE
light the stair treads
the individual stair treads this modernist staircase lit from below, so that peeps light both above and below the steps. This means the space under the stairs is as beautiful as the staircase itself and is the final touch to this winding inspired design.
Tell us ...
How is your lit stairwell? Share your ideas and pictures in the comments below.
the individual stair treads this modernist staircase lit from below, so that peeps light both above and below the steps. This means the space under the stairs is as beautiful as the staircase itself and is the final touch to this winding inspired design.
Tell us ...
How is your lit stairwell? Share your ideas and pictures in the comments below.