Curved Track Lighting: Six Interesting Applications In Your Home

Curved track lighting is an interesting style of lighting. It brings the modernity of track lighting along with the grace of curved tracks. You may be wondering, though, where you can use it. In truth, you can use it almost anywhere you use regular track lighting. Here are some ways to use the curved track lighting that are a little out of the ordinary.

Bay Window

If you have a bay window, you might have a window seat. You can put a curved track to come out in a semi-circle from the windows. Bright heads can be inserted into the track for reading lights. That way you can enjoy a rainy afternoon with a good book. You can also aim other heads towards the draperies to give a comfortable ambience.

Wet Bars

Curved track lighting is always a hit for wet bars. One configuration of a nice wet bar would be shelves with glassware on one side and liquor bottles on the other side. You might have a sink in the middle. For this arrangement, you can curve your track lighting out from the bar and aim a head for task lighting directly at the sink. Then, you could graze the shelves and all their sparkling glass with accent lights.

Family Tree

People who are into genealogy might like the idea of setting up a lighted family tree. This could be done by arranging pictures on a wall according to ancestry. You would not want to take this too far because too large of a display could not be lighted well. However, for a small extended family, you could put a curved track or two bending out in the centers from the pictures to light them. You might want to put a brighter spot on the present generation and use a dimmer for past generations.

Collection Cabinets

Collections can be lighted using curved track lighting. You might have your collection on a shelf. Your collection may be of tea pots, salt and pepper shakers, shot glasses, coffee mugs or any other collectible. You can put curved tracks in a scallop design in front of long shelves. Then, just add track heads and aim them at your favorite items, possibly even highlighting them in different colors.

Workbench

Lighting for a workbench can sometimes be scarce. You may want to build model airplanes, a ship in a bottle, or even build a model of the Golden Gate Bridge in ice cream sticks. Without the proper lighting, your project is doomed. Just add curved track lighting that goes around you. That way, you can point task lighting towards the work area and it will not go into your eyes.

Fireplace Mantels

Many people use track lighting to light up the mantels over their fireplaces. It works well, but curved tracks will give a different effect. You can put the ends near each side of the mantle with the curve going out in front of the fireplace. This will put your objects on the mantle at a different angle from the light. You might like the effect better.

Curved track lighting has so many uses it would be impossible to name them all. If you are creative, you can think of different ways to use them in your own home. Some may not work the way you had planned, but overall, you will discover new ways to light your home.