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How to Choose the Proper Lighting for a Child's Room

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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Choosing the proper lighting for a room involves taking the time to determine your needs. By truly assessing your needs before making any purchases, you will be able to determine what you need while you are at a lighting store. Otherwise, you may choose lighting that ends up being inefficient and find yourself needing to make one or more returns.

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Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Step1

View the light in the child's bedroom at various times of day. Be sure to position your blinds or drapery as they will be on the average day at different times in the bedroom.

Step2

Take note of dark spots in the room that may need to be illuminated. For example, if your child has play time with trucks at a specific point on a daily basis, be sure that area is well lit so that he can enjoy his play time.

Step3

If you have bedside tables, you will want to have appropriate lamps on them. Be sure that the lamps you choose not only reflect the style of the bedroom, but the scale of the bedside tables.

Step4

You will want overhead light to be somewhat soft in a child's bedroom.

Step5

Some people enjoy having a ceiling fan attached to the lighting in their children's bedrooms. If you live in a temperate or humid climate, children may enjoy having a ceiling fan for hot and humid nights.

Step6

Allow as much natural light into the bedroom as possible. Natural light is soothing and can help a child relax and unwind.

Step7

Consider adding a whimsical light in your child's room. Looking at the same whimsical light from the time of infancy through the childhood years can create soothing memories for later in life.

Tips & Warnings

An interior decorator can help you make decisions about lighting in your child's bedroom. If you have never attempted this task before, you may want input from a professional.