Most homeowners treat lighting as a finishing touch. They finalise the flooring, the carpentry, the feature wall, and then, somewhere near the end, pick out a ceiling light and a couple of pendants. That is the wrong order. And it is one of the most common reasons a well-renovated home still does not feel right. Lighting shapes how every other element in the room looks. The same limewash wall reads completely differently under warm indirect light versus a cool white downligh