Scandi-Lighting: Tips for Lighting to Light Your Home
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During the winter months, daylight is scarce with some countries plunged into 20 hours of darkness. And when there is daylight, it is low-light dusk. So if anyone knows how to light a home and banish shadows, it’s the Scandinavians. Neutral colours and natural materials combine to give an effortlessly stylish finish with a relaxed ambience in the home.
What is Scandi design?
Characterised by simplicity, minimalism and functionality, the emergence of this design movement in the 1950s across Scandinavia was one that soon found its way to British shores (and beyond). Strikingly elegant, there is often a mystique to getting the Scandi-lighting style ‘just right’.
The key to successfully using this style of lighting in the home is to ditch the ‘matchy-matchy’ approach instead opting for an effortless entanglement between table light, floor lamp, and ceiling light.
Find your Scandi-pendant
When natural light is scarce, layering light in the home is essential. Bright, harsh light is not the solution, and so using warm white bulbs in your chosen Sandi-pendant is important - as is opting for more than one pendant light in a room.
Spread the pendant lights across a space, opting for dimmable bulbs is possible. Whether you are a loyal follower of Scandi design or not, introducing a simple pendant light fitting with an exposed bulb is not something you will have missed. In fact, in this kind of design, bulbs and ‘exposed’ cables and wires are often part of the design.
Our Pendant recommendations…
- The Kayleb dome pendant light in chalky white is one of our bestsellers. Simple yet stylish, there is a hint of both the contemporary style and Scandi-design in this light fitting.
- Wood, especially those with a light finish such as beech, is often used in Scandi interior design. With its own character, the Stellan grey and wood pendant light makes a fabulous Scandi-statement.
- Clean outlines and geometric shapes also play a prominent part too and so you won’t go far wrong introducing the Louvred white Scandi pendant into a room, a design inspired by Louis Poulsen.
Semi-flush Scandi lighting
Opting for flush lighting (or semi-flush) when height is limited is also possible in the Scandi-style. The Robin flush ceiling light with its minimalist and mid-century design vibe wouldn’t look out of place. But don’t forget that many of the pendant lights are height adjustable on installation too, so that doesn’t always rule them out.
Experiment with Scandi table lamps
In Scandi-design, lighting fittings and fixtures are not hidden away. They will play a central role in styling a room hence ‘layering’ table lamps through a space is key.
And here’s the best bit - they don’t have to be on an occasional table or bedside table either! You’ll often find a table lamp artfully placed on a floor, on bookcases and on shelving units. Opt for a table lamp with an adjustable head different areas can be illuminated when you need it most. Introduce more than one lamp too. If you do, however, maintain cohesion in either material or colour so stop it from looking too jumbled and fussy.
Our Scandi Table Lamp recommendations…
- The Arch wooden geometric table lamp with its angular, wooden frame and neutral coloured linen shade is a great choice for the Scand-interior design style.
- At the other end of the spectrum is the Ladhill task light. Again, with Louis Poulsen vibes, this adjustable table lamp will look at home on your office desk as it will in the Scandi-styled living room.
