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Add accent lighting to your home to upgrade your spaces and create a cozy, inviting atmosphere. Learn all the different types of accent lighting you can use to improve the lighting in your home.
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Hi, it's Lindsay Dianne from DianneDecor.com
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In this video, we're going to talk all about how to improve the lighting in your home
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Now, in general, there are three different types of lighting. There's ambient lighting, there's TAS lighting, and then there is accent lighting
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In this video, we're going to focus primarily on accent lighting. These are the little things that you can add to your home that will create a nice, warm
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inviting atmosphere. It's that little extra lighting that's under the cabinet, or below the stairs, or a little
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spotlight or picture light. There are so many different ways to add accent lighting to your home, and we're going to
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go over all of them in this video. Let's get started. Okay, number one are nightlights
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We are not talking about kids' nightlights. We're talking about nightlights to put in your hallway throughout your home
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This is a really fantastic way to have a low-level lighting in your home that is functional
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but mostly gives a nice, warm glow around the high-traffic areas in your space
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For me, I like to have lighting that leads from the bedroom, through the kitchen, and
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to the other bedrooms. Not only is it functional when we have visitors or guests, people can move through the house
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without it being pitch black, but it also gives this nice, soft, warm glow
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It's nothing that's going to wake anybody up if they're just getting up from a sleep
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and they're groggy. It's just enough to give you a nice visibility throughout the house, and it's fantastic
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The ones I use are from Vont. They are a basic dust-till-dawn light
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There's no other special features about them. I just plug them in and leave them
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When it gets dark in the house, they turn on by themselves. When it gets bright, they turn off
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They're very simple and very effective, and it's a great first step to adding some accent
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lighting into your home. Number two is under-cabinet lighting
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Now, under-cabinet lighting, you can hardwire in, or you can get rechargeable or battery-operated
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puck lights or light bars to stick underneath your cabinets. I have the little puck lights that you press on and off
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They actually have AA batteries that go in them. If I were to do it all over again, for some reason, if something happens to these lights
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I've had them for years now, but if something happened to them, I would definitely get the
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rechargeable ones. Things like this, they're really inexpensive. I want to say I paid maybe $16 or $17 for a pack of six of them for my kitchen, and
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it was the best money I've ever spent. I love having these lights
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They're controlled by a remote control. I love having them on in the kitchen late at night
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I don't have to have any of the other overhead lights on
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That's your ambient lighting, the lighting that's designed to overall light the room
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That's usually your can lights, pendant lights. It's debatable. Depending upon where pendant lights are, they may be considered more of a task lighting
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If you're over your kitchen island or you have lighting that's over a bathroom sink
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that falls a little bit more into the task lighting category, but in general, you know
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what I mean. It's the overall lighting for the room that is the ambient lighting
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As far as accent lighting goes, I absolutely love the under the cabinet lights
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Right along with that number three, you can also use these same types of lights underneath
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your shelves. If you have a pantry, you can stick each one of these on the underside of your shelves
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Some of them are motion activated, so you can choose whether you want those so that
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when you open your pantry door, all of your lights come on and your shelves are beautifully
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lit or you can have them that are just turned on and off
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I don't know, maybe you have a glass door on your pantry that you see in all the time
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You might want to control it through a remote. It's really up to you, but they are a fantastic way to highlight and create a little bit more
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light and display. It's really just for decoration. It's an accent light
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It's for decoration, but it really does create a nice ambiance in your kitchen
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Task lamps are very popular right now, and that is the fourth type of accent lighting
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that I want to talk about. It's very popular to put the task lamps on the sides of your sofa or right along the
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side of an armchair or accent chair. These are lights that are not meant to light up the entire room like a traditional floor lamp
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Instead, they are angled down to be more of a spotlight on that seat that it's next to
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So it's not really even going to light up an entire couch
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It's designed to light up that seat. Consider it like a reading lamp, right
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It's for you to be able to see your tablet or your book or your magazine or whatever
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you're reading in that seat. Again, there's one particular style that you see all over YouTube
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I'll put a picture of it here. I know you've seen it. They're very popular right now
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If you like that type of lighting or if you do lots of reading, that is a type of lighting
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that you can add to your home as an accent light. The next step are spotlights
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This is another very trendy thing right now. You can get these little spotlights
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They're rechargeable, much like the puck lights and the motion activated bar lights that you
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can put under your cabinets. You can get these little spotlights and use them to illuminate corners in your room
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Sometimes people put them behind faux trees. Sometimes they put them into the planter of the faux tree and cover it with moss and give
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your tree a little up light. You can put them in the corner behind a chair, a rocking chair or a chair in the nursery
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If you have the little pedestals where you display a figurine or a bust, you can put
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the spotlight there and kind of up light that. There are a lot of options to put these little lights and they are great for highlighting
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some of your decor. It's a great accent light option. Moving from the floor up onto the walls, there are picture lights
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If you have a gallery wall, a picture light is the perfect way to highlight that on the
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wall in the evening. Let's say you have three rows. You don't necessarily have to have three lights, but you could have one at the center
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Let's say you have three columns of pictures in a gallery wall
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Go ahead and put a light right at the center. If you have large pictures that are maybe going up your stairway, you can stagger those
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picture lights. Put one over each one of your oversized paintings or pictures
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You can have one over one in your bedroom. You can have them in your hallway
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They're just a fantastic way to highlight another decorative object. In this case, it's going to be a painting or a picture frame that's on your wall
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They look just so cool. They look so cool, especially in a dining room or a living room
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They help really highlight your personality. They highlight the things that you've chosen as decor for your home
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It just kind of draws a little extra attention to it. They're a great way to illuminate the space just a little bit and draw the attention to
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the object that you want everyone to look at. And when it comes to lighting at the tabletop or countertop level, consider candles, mini
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lamps or even diffusers as an accent lighting option. These again, they create a little bit of glow
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They're not going to illuminate an entire room. They're not intended to
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They're just going to create a little bit of glow in that area that's just beautiful
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to look at at night. You can of course go for the battery operated candles
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A lot of them now allow you to turn them on for a certain number of hours and then they
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continue that schedule. That's the way the ones that I have work
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I have one giant one, a giant pillar candle that sits at my entryway and one that sits
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on my dining room table. And every night at about 730, they both come on, they stay on for four hours, they turn
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off on their own. It's a nice thing to have in the house in the evening when all of the other overhead
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lights are turned off. It just creates a really nice soothing atmosphere
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So consider those, consider candles, consider mini lamps and diffusers. A lot of the essential oil diffusers now come with different lighting options and different
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lighting settings. And those are another great way to illuminate a countertop or a tabletop
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We're almost done here. I have just a few more to talk about
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One is the behind the TV LED strip lighting. This was really, really popular for the last few years
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I don't know how many people are still doing it, but it's a popular option
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If you want to, you can buy these kind of sticky backed LED light strips and you can
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line the back of your television and they're controlled via remote control or an app and
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they can light up and glow and you'll basically have a soft glow coming out from the back
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of your TV. You can change the colors. They're very cool to look at
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I don't have any in my home, but they are pretty cool to look at
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So if you like that sort of big illuminated TV from the behind look, that's a great option
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for accent lighting. The last few have to do with lighting outside of your home
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So let's talk about your patio or your backyard setup. Consider some string lights, some hanging lanterns, or some curtain lights in your backyard
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They will create such a beautiful atmosphere. I put string lights up on my little covered patio area last year and I absolutely love them
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They are so awesome. They survived through a few days of freeze here in Texas and they are going strong this year
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They were worth every penny and they weren't even expensive. They were maybe $25 and I absolutely love them
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I have the blinds open for the doors that lead out to that patio every night
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Those are the only ones I leave open because I can see those lights sparkling just beyond
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the window and it's a beautiful sight. So if you're thinking about what you can do in your backyard, consider string lights
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curtain lights, or the hanging lanterns. In your garden beds, consider some solar lights there
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Solar lights to put in your garden beds. You can use them if they can angle up, you can use them to uplight a tree
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If you have them in your front yard, you can use them to uplight your house number
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You can also use them to line your driveway or your path for path lighting
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This is a great accent lighting for your yard. You can also have stair lights as an option
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Stair lights are pretty versatile. Usually you can mount them to the stairs, you can mount them to fence posts
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For me, I don't have any stairs, but I do use them on my fence, on the lower level of
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my fences. I should tell you a story. These same lights, I'll insert a shot of these
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They were so bright. My initial thought was that I was going to put them on every other post in my backyard
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so that I could illuminate my backyard at night. The backyard was so dark and I was just kind of over it
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I'm like, I want to be able to see something, like what's out there
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I can sit there on the patio, but beyond a certain point it was just pitch black and
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you'd just hear sounds and you're like, what is out there? So I wanted to get these fence lights
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I set them up. When I tell you, it lit up my yard like it was a football field
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It was Friday night lights out there. I could not believe how bright these lights were
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So what I ended up having to do was I tried multiple, I tried to reduce the number of
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the lights, but I was just so afraid that I was going to become a nuisance to the neighbors
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because the backyard would be so bright and everybody else's was dark
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I just, I said, this is not going to work. So what I did was I lowered them down so that they're just a few inches off the grass and
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I have two in one corner and I have two in another corner and it's the perfect amount
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of light. Just two of them. Let me tell you, just be careful when you buy these types of fence post lights because
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they can be much brighter than you think and there was no way to adjust that lighting
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So, but in any event, accent lighting for your backyard, yes, fence lights, deck lighting
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stair lighting, they're all really great options to create a nice ambiance in your backyard
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That is finally it for this video. I know it was a long one
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I hope you found all this information helpful and you will use a few of these to help create
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some really beautiful accent lighting in your home and just kind of upgrade your space
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All of these things you can get rather inexpensively. So this is a great way to decorate your home on a budget
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Just upgrade your lighting here and there. Places where you think that you're really going to enjoy it
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Don't forget to visit me at dianedecor.com. I post all about decorating on a budget over there and I will see you in the next video. Bye
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