Lighting is, in so many ways, the backbone of a beautiful home. As functional as it is decorative, this is the one feature that can truly make or break a room, dictating how your space feels as well as how it looks. And, this year, the designers are looking at these features with a keener eye than ever before.
Having already established how to plan your home's lighting scheme, the trends this year focus less on technique and more on feeling. As we're observing across interior design trends, there is a growing desire to move away from the highly edited artifice of the modern world, and people are increasingly looking to the past and to nature for inspiration, finding ways to make our homes feel more personal and human. Undoubtedly triggered by the inescapable surge in all things AI, these trends reject modernity and embrace the beauty of imperfection - whether that be obvious signs of aging, as seen in the neo-classical design trend, or the randomness of nature, as observed through both the materials and forms we're adopting in our lighting designs nowadays.
