Installing pleasant lighting for every living space is an essential way of polishing the overall look of a rental property, as it can help attract and keep higher-quality tenants. The number of lighting options available in stores and online is endless. Lighting fixtures and lighting layouts for every home, fall into the interior design category, which can be overwhelming to some homeowners.

In some cases, choosing the best lighting pieces to use in a poorly planned lighting layout can lead to wasting a large amount of money on items that will quickly become easily damaged, faulty, or merely unpractical for tenants. When you want to shine a spotlight on your rental property using the best lighting materials, it’s essential to know the list of available lighting types and layouts that you think can actually boost the appearance of your rental property. Here are some of the best types of lighting that can help spotlight your rental property.

Ambient light is one of the most preferred types of lighting used for making your interiors look inviting because it is responsible for illuminating the whole area of a home. It is the bread and butter of interior illumination and the most basic “layer” of indoor lighting. This "layer" is intended to be the critical source of general light for your home. This type of lighting should be carefully planned before you decide to move forward, in order to avoid making your home have an awkwardly dark area or an overly bright space.

The primary purpose of using ambient lighting is to produce a natural and comfortable glow and shine that allows tenants to enjoy a well-lit space when there’s not enough daylight outside. Many expert electricians have found out that multiple types of lighting fixtures can create ambient lighting. Still, ceiling-mounted light fixtures are generally most common in rental properties as they produce a 360-degree radius of light, which alone can easily illuminate any room.

The walls of your rental property play an important role in determining the overall luminosity of your home. The rooms will look darker when the walls are painted with dark color and these dark colors do not complement light sources – either natural or artificial. Paint with lighter shades to ultimately make your rental property a well-lit space.

Task lighting is a type of light source that purposely illuminates a specific space so it can assist the daily activities of a tenant. Examples of task lighting are table lamps, nightstand lamps, pendant kitchen lights, bathroom vanity, and under kitchen cabinet lighting fixtures. They are called so because they provide light for many purposes, such as working at a desk, reading in bed, cooking, and getting ready in the bathroom.

Integrated lighting fixtures in the kitchen and bathroom are a type of lighting upgrade that should not be underestimated. Most tenants like to have the availability of task lighting in some areas of the home they will be living in.

When it comes to indoor lighting of a rental property, you should consider visualizing layers. While you believe ambient light is the first core layer, you should not only focus on it when planning to illuminate space properly. Many homeowners also think that task lighting is immensely important because it makes your space more functional.

Also called “highlighting,” accent lighting can draw attention to a specific area in the home, which is usually used for aesthetic purposes. Accent lighting provides good illumination in every home, especially when focused on a decorative element that one intends to highlight in the home. Unless your home is furnished, most rental properties do not need to have accent lighting. Most property owners generally give priority to task lighting for their rentals over accent lighting, as it serves an essential purpose that all tenants can enjoy.

Property owners can easily spend a lot of money, time, and effort choosing the best lighting pieces for their rentals. Choose classic styles that offer function and will appeal to all tenants, instead of choosing fixtures that are bold and trendy,  While trendy lighting might look appealing to some, their value will diminish as they usually become outdated in a short period.