As Shakespeare said all the world is a stage. So treat all your rooms as if they are the set for life's most important play. After all this is where we act out our most important roles, the one played by ourselves. Lighting is a set designer's second most effective tool. Lighting brings a room to life, creating texture on the walls with shadow and lot of ambience and mood.
Lighting can also drastically change the colour on the walls.
In your own home, vary the levels and type of light. Use floor cans to shine light up through the leaves of a palm tree, the light will cast wonderful shadows onto the walls. Table lamps provide for good mid level or reading light, and trochee or floor lamps give a slightly higher or third light level. Ceiling lights are used for general room lighting and pot or track lighting is designed to feature or high light artwork and focal points in the room. The more light the better, light makes a room come to life try in incorporate as much variety and amount of light as possible.