Right Light

The right light makes the room. It sets the stage for our lives, creates a comfortable environment, and enhances home décor. Bring a new brilliance to your home with this expert guide that demystifies all aspects of lighting your home.

The Right Light examines a wealth of lighting sources, types, and styles. It shows you how to find and use the best light fixtures, how to create mood with lighting, and how to balance the functional and aesthetic aspects of lighting throughout your home on a room-by-room basis, and even outdoors. Read The Right Light and discover hoe to custom-design your own lighting to decorate your home.

-Detailed lighting plans for your home, and inventive ways to use the lighting resources you already have in place.

-Decorative tricks on how to use lighting to enlarge your space, make it more intimate, and give it more height.

-Lighting design tips on working with color and light, designing concealed lighting, and turning a garden into an outdoor room.

-Eight beautiful handcrafted lamp projects to help you make your own lamps and light fixtures.

Lisa Skolnik is a regular contributor to the Chicago Tribune on design, entertaining, style, and family issues, and a city editor for Metropolitan Home magazine. Her work has also appeared in such publications as Metropolitan Home magazine, Interiors magazine, Woman’s Day, Good Housekeeping, Fodor’s Chicago guidebook and more. She is the author of fourteen books on design.

Skolnik lives and works in Chicago, where she has plenty of first-hand experience with storage issues thanks to the piles of possessions she has accrued with the help of her husband, Howard, and four children, Caroline, Sasha, Anastasia, and Theodora.