Lighting Your Guest Suite To Create A Hotel Feel

The holiday season is upon us and with that in mind, you have probably been looking for clever ways to provide your festive guests with a comfortable stay. Your home is never going to be quite as cool as staying in a hotel, but believe it or not, you can use your lighting as a way to create a luxury space that will make even the fanciest hotel seem like the worst stay ever.

Let's take a look at how you can light your guest suite to create a hotel feel.

Layer Your Lights

If you want to use light effectively, you can do so by building it up in layers. This will create the perfect food for any guest. So, take a few things into consideration as you light the space. Think about the time of day each light will best serve, what the light may be used for, and then start from the floor up. You may feel there's a need for uplights in the floor to create a clear path to the bathroom in the evening hours or you might want to combine wall lighting with ceiling lights and downlights. All of these can feed each other to create the perfect mood in any room.

Here's the thing, when you walk into a fancy hotel suite you often get a feeling of wow. That's a special ability that lighting possesses, which is why it's important that you get it right. Think about things like whether your guest might want to read (knit or do a crossword) before bed, but their partner wants to sleep.

Build Your Collection

The most effective way to create a cohesive look is by buying the entire lighting family. Most design collections offer table, floor, and wall lights – this will provide your guest suite with a coordinated look.

There are so many different types of light fittings, though, so you may buy a lighting family, but find that you still need more fixtures and fittings. That's okay because your core collection is cohesive and you can expand on it from there. 

The Guest Bathroom

Don't forget the bathroom in your lighting plans, it is just as important as the rest of the guest suite. You have to consider what types of activity will take place in the bathroom. This is generally where we get ready, brush our hair, style it, and apply makeup. So, to get this right the mirror should have a bright light on either side of it (about mid-way) to create the best illumination required for perfect vision to apply makeup. You need more lighting than that, though, so you will want a ceiling light (or many) to finish the job. Don't forget how your guest may unwind in the evening. If they're going to take a bubble bath before bed then you will need to provide them with some soft lighting to put on while they relax before bed – this might be somewhere that uplights will work. So, that's a light that will provide a more spa-like feeling than anything else.

The Finishing Touches

The fittings that you choose will depend on the size of your rooms and the overall design and decorating scheme. If you are trying to create a more contemporary scheme with clean finishes then you're going to want to look at lighting fixtures in matte nickel and/or polished chrome. You can add a touch of luxury to any room by choosing to go with contrast and opting for finishes of gold, copper or even matte black.

If you prefer more traditional design schemes then you're probably going to want to stick with the coppers, antique brasses, and even gold plated options. Many modern fittings come in a variety of finishes, so you might find the perfect combination of modern and traditional that will pull the design of the room together perfectly.

Lighting is something that we are all guilty of overlooking, but it's really one of the most important components of decorating. It plays a major roll in the comfort of your guests because it can affect the design scheme as well as the mood and essentially, their entire experience staying with you.

Laura Ashley 30% Off Lighting & Furniture is the first place you need to visit on your way, giving your guest suite the perfect hotel feel. The only risk is that the room will be so amazing, your guests are going to want to keep coming back to visit.

Once you get finished improving your guest room and bathroom you will probably find yourself wanting to repeat the steps above in every room of your house. You should, it can be a world of difference, improve your home's overall aesthetic, and most importantly, improve your own comfort levels at home. Get ready to fall in love with it all over again.

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