It’s a well known fact that residential buildings such as personal homes and wellings are poorly lit, both on the outside and on the inside. And by poorly lit we don’t mean a lack of light but a lack of taste in the lighting positioning and effect. Most US outside lighting fixture are basically made from a simple light bulb up on a pole or on a wall. The estetics of the night landscape in cities could greatly be improved with the use of architectural lights which bring out the most interesting parts of any building and it’s surrpundings. However fitting such lights does not only require good tase and a trained eye for detials it also requires a larger than average budget as these kind of fixtures tend to be more expensive than meere light bulbs on high poles. The investment is definitely worthi it especially after night fall when the homes and its surroundings come to life. The same could be stated about inner ligthting effects, which in most private homes are very basic to say the least. Some special lights like dimmer lights or motion detector lights could drastically improve the inner lighting of most buildings. Other special effect lights that could be used indoors are lava lamps and fiber glass lamps which can totally change the mood of any room. In order to get the best effect one could hide the light sources behid things such as courtins or gaps in the walls especially made to fit lighting fixtures. In order to make the best choice it’s not a bad idea to ask the advice of an interior designer who can immedialy see which are the best ways to accetuate the best features any given home has.