If you’re looking to brighten up a dark staircase, our stellar stairway lighting ideas will not only illuminate your stairs but will make them a focal point.
Not only does your staircase lighting need to be bright so that you and your family can use the stairs safely, but hallway stairs are on an incline in probably the narrowest spot in your home — meaning a lot of lighting ideas just won’t work in the space.
Jamie Moxey, Design Consultant at Dusk says, ‘A stairway has the potential to become a beautiful focal feature as you enter a house, and lighting is one of the methods you can use to achieve this.’
‘Lighting does not serve a purely practical function in the home, it can easily add striking design features and focal points for desired spaces. Therefore, it is worth considering if you can use your stairway lighting to enhance the overall look of the entryway.’
So without further ado, we show you how to light up your stairway practically and stylishly.
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Stairwells offer a great opportunity for something a bit more ‘showy’ when it comes to lighting. Make use of the extra height and space by choosing a multi-drop pendant or waterfall chandelier that will add wow in an entrance hall but add visual interest on levels going upstairs too.
Baby clothes may be small but they take up a surprising amount of space. Mainly because there are so many of them, with multiple layers and essentials that go into a daily outfit for any little one. Plus there’s the fact no one can resist buying adorable tiny clothes, so little ones end up with a better stocked wardrobe than parents most of the time. So the question of how to organise baby clothes becomes all the more common.
The key to keeping order is choosing a clothes storage solution to suit the space you have. As nurseries and small children’s room ideas tend to be the smallest room in the house it pays to seek space-saving storage solutions, from stylish hanging rails to show off favourite fashionable ensembles to clever drawers dividers to make more of furniture choices.
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Practical storage is essential in a baby’s room, particularly a very young one where you don’t want anything to make the daily routine any harder. The last thing you want when your baby is crying out for a clean nappy is to riffle through piles to find a fresh change of clothes. A chest of drawers is a failsafe way of providing plentiful storage for all your clothes and accessories, allowing different drawers for different purposes – bodysuits in one, leggings and tops folded away neatly in another.
And because it’s a baby’s room why not add an element of fun with a jazzy upcycled furniture idea, such as this one!
