Lighting Trends in 2022

“If the home interior is a painted canvas, the lighting fixtures are the brushstrokes that determine its focus, mood, and ambiance”, Architectural Digest. In addition to being functional, lightings sets the mood and atmosphere and is really part of the artwork as well. Changing a fixture can bring a much-needed update or pop of interest to a room.

Hail to the Sconce

According to Interior Decor Trends, there are considerations on how to choose your lighting. When selecting lighting pay attention to the presence of windows openings as well as the side of the house the room is located, the northside is darker and the southside is brighter for most of the day.  Architectural Digest says “Hail to the Sconce”. Creatively targeting the illumination of space is the goal and sconces can be found in bedrooms, bathrooms, and sitting spaces, as well as under shelves and cabinets highlighting collections or kitchen counters. They provide a softer, ambient light.

Interior Decor Trends suggest selecting lighting based on the following things.

1. Environmental friendliness: natural materials are on-trend for 2022 including wood, glass, natural fabrics, and ceramics. Additionally, fixtures are styled after natural objects. Bellardi Ricci says “tastemakers are beginning to prefer the composition of humble materials over complexity and extravagance”.
   
   

   

   
2. Simplicity of forms: Less is more with lighting for 2022. Streamlining the designs with no extra frills. Like the paint and tile trends, matte black, white and gray colors will complement the interior color trends. If a softer look is desired, go back to warmer colors of honey, sand, blue sky or pine needles.
   
   

   

   
3. Chandeliers in the form of art objects: selection of a unique object will be the finishing touch for a room looking for a centerpiece and give you a chance to “deviate from the rules”. Per Interior Decor Trends the key is to “strike a balance between design invention and restraint of the overall design.” In other words, interesting but still will illuminate.
   
   

   

   
4. Brass: This is not your grandmother’s brass. Designers have long used brass in chandeliers and lamps as the metal “fills the space in the fixture, and the room, with warmth. Especially as rooms trend away from a cooler tone to a warmer tone.
   
   

   
5. Balls! Lamps in the form of balls: The balls can be made from transparent, translucent or completely opaque materials. Products made of combined materials or transparent lamps with round lamps look very beautiful and original. They can be in larger clusters for a dramatic chandelier, or as a single, simplistic statement of a sconce or pendant (Patti Carpenter, Architectural Digest). This trend is seen in sconces, chandeliers, lamps and other fixtures.