Lighting is an essential part of home décor. When you combine the lighting with other aspects like wall color, furniture creates a welcoming ambiance for the whole space. Like your living room, lighting is equally essential for your kid's room. Today, you can choose from a wide variety of lighting options, specially designed for a kid's room.
But it doesn't have to be a costly affair to light up your children’s room. You can simply open the bedroom window and let the moon light come in at night. The calmness of the moon light, coupled with your lighting ideas, can create a soothing environment for your kids.
Enough beating around the bush! Let's get you straight down to our favorite lighting ideas for a kid's room. While some are elegant and inspiring, others are cost-effective and pleasing.
Table lamp
Well, it is the most basic and essential lighting item in your kid's room. You can use it to offer extra illumination on an end table or desk or a nightstand. These lamps are generally between 24 and 25 inches in height with numerous designs. The modern lamps used halogen bulbs, but with energy consumption, a high priority, led lights are becoming mainstream. And they are safer too since halogen bulbs tend to heat up.
Pendant lights
Pendant lights are ceiling fixtures and quite similar to chandeliers. These are the best option for ambient lighting in your kid's room. You can choose to hang a single pendant at a time or bunch up two or three. You can hang sleeker and smaller pendants light lower and hang the bigger ones higher. While it adds ambient lighting, you can hand pendant light over task areas like a desk or above the play area. All you have to do is make sure the lights don't hit your child by accident. You'll have it easy installing pendant lights if you already have wiring in the ceiling. But if you need to add wiring, then you'll need to call an electrician.
Floor lamps
Floor lamps are universally accepted lighting ideas for your home décor. And if you add colors to it, they are great for your kid's room. You can use them as a secondary source of ambient light with dim brightness and colorful options. Or, you can use them as a primary source with brighter light if you don't wish to add extra wiring in the ceiling. If you search hard, you'll find models with an adjustable three-way bulb that allows you to adjust the brightness. And there are even several models with flexible necks so you can focus light in different directions.
Paper lanterns
Paper lanterns are a fun, colorful, and innovative idea to light up your kid's room. And they are cost-effective too! You can either buy elaborate designs from the market or have fun with your kids creating their lanterns. The possibilities are endless. You can use different colors to control the brightness and simply wire them up in the room. And since your kid made them so passionately, they would be careful not to break or tear them.
Night lights
Night lights are an essential lighting item in a kid's room. From assuring safety from fear of darkness to creating a warm and soothing environment to sleep: Night Lights are your kid's sleep-time buddies. There are thousands of designs in the market and come as freestanding or wall-mounted. There are even moon-inspired ones called the moon light lamp. These are battery-powered light and shaped like our moon. They come with different lighting color options, and you can even control the brightness.
Light up your kid's room
There is no end in designs, range, and structure of lights in the market. Once you start your search, you'll be spoilt for choice, but always keep your kid's needs in mind. Night lights like a moon light lamp are a great option, as it is not just a lighting item, but a creative gift idea too.