When I was a young designer, I visited a home that had picture lights on paintings in each room.  Coming from a modest home, where we moved often and didn’t have any meaningful art to speak of, this really caught my eye.  It was absolutely magical, and the genius of it, from a design standpoint, was easy to understand.  When we light something, our attention is instantly drawn to it.  Artistic creations are often layered with colors, textures and graphic elements.  When we light those elements and draw attention to them, we instantly make them a bigger design “player” in the space.  

Working from home became the new norm for so many of us during the pandemic.  While we needed our spaces to suddenly pull double-duty, we didn't have much time to think about how the space looked or felt.  We just needed it to become a place we could work.  And fast.  Now, with so many of us working remotely on a more permanent basis, there is an opportunity to make sure our work-from-home spaces are functional and beautiful for the long term.