5 ways Lighting Can Be Used to Make a Temporary Place Feel Like Home

*This is a collaborative post 

When working towards making a temporary place feel like home, there are a few easy ways that this can be achieved at a reasonable cost.

Here are some ideas to get you started. 

Create a Hollywood Worthy Make-up mirror

Why spend the money on high-end cosmetics only to struggle with how much and where it needs to be applied? Investing in your home is the best way to empower you to invest in yourself.

A Hollywood-worthy makeup mirror will ring your mirror with bright bulbs and turn your skin to the perfect canvas for your makeup.

If you don’t want to go the old-fashioned route, surround your mirror space with 240v led strip lights to get the lighting you need to create your selfie-worthy makeup look. 

That adds to the fun because it’s not just about making yourself look movie-ready, but being able to share the results with your friends and followers. 

Using the light strip will also reduce the heat generated by the lights to nothing and will reduce your energy costs.

The cost of beauty can be high, but the right lighting can make it far more affordable. The best part is that the light strips can adapt to the shape of your mirror.

Use Fairy Lights in Glass Jars 

Want to be a happy hipster? Combine two of the things that seem to make them happiest when it comes to decor: fairy lights and jars. With the increasing affordability of LED fairy lights that can run a long time on battery power, there are a variety of ways to create interesting lighting spaces for your home.

Rather than resting near a plug, you can have mood lighting sitting on bookshelves, in the kitchen — even in the bathroom if you really feel like you need ambience in that space.

Go Retro with Lava Lamps 

Lava lamps may never come back into style, but they’ll never completely go away either. They definitely have a following among the stare into space crowd, and, jokes aside, they can really add a lot to space if you have a clear vision for the decorating.

Get Yourself a Statement Lamp-Shade for your main bedroom light 

Effective lighting can be as much about how you use the shadow. The right lampshade can really set the mood, especially if it has a pattern or cutout that gives the room a more striking look in the evenings.

It’s one of many ways to have a transformative effect on your space.

Accent lighting behind the television

For many people, televisions tend to be the centrepiece of the living space. They are almost all gigantic these days and people arrange their furniture around allowing as many people as possible to enjoy the view.

It is now possible to purchase and install LED lighting to backlight the TV. Some find the additional lighting enhances the viewing experience for audiences, and, if nothing else, it definitely serves as a different and unique way to use light within a space.