Get started with smart decorative lighting for everyday interior design

Smart lighting isn't just about illuminating spaces, it's about creating ambiance and setting the mood. Thanks to cutting-edge technology, smart decorative LED lights have revolutionized how we illuminate and decorate our spaces. Twinkly smart LED lights offer customizable, easy-to-use features, convenience, and complete control through the exclusive smartphone app, guaranteeing unparalleled flexibility and versatility for lighting design and ambiance creation. 

Let’s look at the basics of lighting design, such as choosing the right shape, function, color, and tone, while prioritizing energy-saving options to transform any space into a magical oasis that reflects your unique style and personality in your home decoration.  

Embrace the power of light to illuminate your world with creativity and innovation. 

Types of smart LED lighting

Lighting design takes on many forms, from daylighting to task lighting and ambient lighting, each serves a specific purpose in optimizing home interiors. It’s important to understand the function of each type of lighting in order to optimize your indoor space when decorating. Here’s a quick look at the four types of lighting and how they impact your environment: 

Daylighting optimizes natural light sources like windows to illuminate interiors during the day.  

Task lighting creates focused illumination for specific activities such as reading or working, ensuring adequate brightness and minimizes eye strain.  

Ambient lighting is a basic source of illumination and sets the overall mood and atmosphere of a space.  

Accent lighting (or decorative lighting) is what we are focusing on in this article. It sets points of focus and adds energy and dimension to your space, giving you the power to design aesthetic flare that reflects your style. There are different kinds of smart decorative lights, each serving a different purpose. Though decorative lighting is not the same as ambient lighting, it has an impact on the ambience of your space, helping you to customize the mood with smart features.

Choose the right kind of lights for your space

When selecting smart decorative LED lights, consider the shape and function that best complement your space. First decide where you want to put them and what purpose they’ll serve. Lights come in various shapes, including strips, tubes, panels, curtains and strings. Therefore, choose a shape that aligns with your design aesthetic and fits seamlessly into your existing home decoration. 

Whether it's accentuating architectural features, highlighting artwork, or providing backlighting, understanding the function will determine the lighting solution that best suits your space and your needs. Here’s a look at some different types of smart LED lighting:

Backlighting for shelves and furniture

Twinkly Lines feature small LEDs on a thin, flat strip with adhesive and magnetic backing. They are perfect for lining furniture, cabinets and shelves in living rooms, bedrooms and kitchens.

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Custom wall decoration

Twinkly Flex is a flexible tube filled with LED lights that emits neon-like effects. The light tubes can be bent into any shape or figure using the included mounting kit for fixing to the wall.

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LED-panel art

Twinkly Squares smart LED panels are modular screen displays that fix to the wall. They are completely customizable to display pixel-perfect artwork, GIFs and ambient lighting effects.

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Screen-like curtain

Twinkly Matrix light curtain has the highest LED density in its class, allowing it to act like a screen to display ultra-vibrant dynamic HD effects and fluid animations, flooding your space in ambient light effects and artistic vibes.

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Decorate kids’ rooms

Twinkly Candies USB-powered string lights come in shapes like Stars and Hearts to decorate children’s rooms. Place them on shelves, picture frames or fix to walls in creative shapes. Just make sure they are placed out of the reach of children.

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Create your vibe by adjusting color and temperature

Color and temperature play essential roles in influencing the ambiance and mood of a space. With Twinkly you can effortlessly adjust the atmosphere of a room with a single swipe of the Twinkly app. Twinkly lights feature patented smart mapping technology and are controlled with an easy-to-use app that recognizes the position of each LED light, giving users total power over the colors, patterns, and effects, no matter how the lights are positioned. Multiple devices can also be grouped and synchronized to play the same themes and effects, giving a uniform vibe to your environment.