This Lighting Trick Makes Dark Corners Look Luxurious

When decorating a room, it often feels natural to orient your design around the central point. There’s a certain logic to this approach — the center of the room feels like an obvious spot to build your design around — but, in practice, what this leaves you with is a space with all the furniture awkwardly cramped right in the middle of the room, with dark, underused corners surrounding it.

This isn’t always entirely our fault, though. Even with the most perfectly planned ways to light a room, if a corner is completely absent of direct natural light and with no clear purpose, it can be incredibly hard to bring life to these spooky nooks. It’s an issue that’s likely to be familiar to a fair few of us, and, if you’re anything like me, you may have already given up hope of ever finding a way to make your sad corner flourish. But even though I was fresh out of ideas, I knew someone who wouldn’t be. And she just so happened to have a trick that hasn’t just brightened up my sleepy corner; it’s actually turned it into one of the most chic spots in my home.