At Perry’s Home Furnishings & Design we have a passion for helping you create the home of your dreams. We are driven by a passion to help you create a beautiful, functional space with beautiful, quality home furniture as well as unique home accents and accessories. You know that you can find well-built, quality home furnishings that will last your family a lifetime when you furniture shop with your friends at Perry’s Home in Belfast, Maine. Our home décor specialists are very particular with the feel of the home design vignettes that we create for you throughout our showroom. Our furniture showroom is eclectic and you will find a space here that speaks to your home design aesthetic. For helping accenting and updating a home design look you already have or to start with a fresh palette full of inspiration, visit our showroom on Route 3 in Belfast, Maine.

In this series, we will be providing you a “How to Decorate with Home Accents” Series on affordable ways to easily change and update the look of any living space using beautiful and functional home accent accessories. In the “How to Decorate with Home Accents”Series we will be covering:

1. Table & Floor Lamps
2. Throw Pillows
3. Area Rugs
4. Throws
5. Table Top Accents
6. Wall Art & Clocks

Part One: Table & Floor Lamps

Lighting is the ultimate accessory in any home décor. How you see and experience a room is directly related to how it is lit. In the first section of
our “How to Decorate with Home Accents” Series, we will give you tips for using table and floor lamps to create a more beautifully lit living space.
There are three types of lighting in interior design:

1. Ambient: The overall illumination of a living space.
2. Task: Helps you accomplish specific tasks.
3. Accent: Adds drama to a room by creating visual interest.

Table and floor lamps generally provide task and accent lighting, while overhead light fixtures more commonly provide ambient lighting. In this series, we aim to provide you with home decorating tips, ideas, and inspiration that are affordable, effective, and easy to update season to season, whim to whim. Perry’s Home in Belfast, Maine is your go to furniture store for unique, stylish, and eclectic table and floor lamps. Let us help you shine a light of inspiration on your home décor.”

Decorating with Lamps, The Basics

• Proper layering of light can enhance color and ambiance.
  
• Create warm, welcoming rooms is easier with well-planned, well-placed lighting.
• Using bases and shades to enhance your decorative scheme makes your lighting another ingredient in a pulled together room.
• Consider style, shape, color, and size when choosing a light fixture as the perfect accessory.
• Table and floor lamps accessorize a space with interesting shapes and colors.
• Use table and floor lamps to add scale by mixing tall and short, petite and bulky.
• Give a room an instant face lift with new table and floor lamps. An affordable accessory, a new lamp can give a room a fresh look.
• Redecorate your home by trading lamps among rooms.

“Think of decorative lighting as architectural jewelry. It can dress up or dress down the look. ~Randall Whitehead”

Lamps for all Home Decor Styles

• If your decoration style is primarily traditional, look for lamps with more ornamentation and complexity in their shape. Brass, crystal,
  and decorative finishes such as bronze and brushed work well.
• To blend with modern design, choose lamps with clean-line shapes and limited detail.
• Use lamps with modern lines to shake up a traditional interior.
• Choose lamps made from steel, chrome, and glass to coordinate with contemporary home furnishings.
• Transitional home design, a subtle blend of traditional and contemporary home design, is popular today in lamps to complement eclectic homes.
• Lamps made from simple materials, such as wrought iron, lend themselves to many home decor styles.

"An array of different lamps gives evenness and warmth. Too much overhead lighting takes away the romance." ~Miles Redd

How to Place Lamps in your Home Decor

• For bedtime reading, place a stylish table lamp on your bedside table.
• A writing desk or sitting area offers the perfect spot for task lighting.
  
• Sixty-eight inches is the ideal floor lamp height because it conceals the bulb whether you're sitting or standing.
• Try a floor lamp on one side of the sofa and a table lamp on the other. Asymmetry keeps your home decor from feeling contrived.
• A floor lamp is a crucial decorating tool. In a room full of pairs, it adds a welcome element of asymmetry.
• Common places to add a floor lamp include: a dark corner, next to a sofa, over a kitchen table, beside a bed, or next to an entryway or console table.
• More is More! No single source of light is as visually comfortable as a combination of table and floor lamps.
• Lamps offer flexibility. When you rearrange the furniture, you can easily rearrange your lighting also.

Next in our “How to Decorate with Home Accents” Series, we help you create a more beautiful and comfortable space with Throw Pillows! You can read "How to Decorate with Home Accents: Throw Pillows" here.