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How will you light up those shadowy corners? How can you highlight those favourite paintings? How can you be able to make out what you are doing in the kitchen? Decent lighting is essential if you're to make the most out of your interiors, it's the first thing you must ponder about when doing up a room.

A decent electrician has all sorts of lighting at his disposal to mount in your house. Gone are the days when a solitary hanging pendant light was the only light source, with perhaps a table lamp for reading and writing. Electricians now talk about ambient, feature and task lighting - and in one room you can have all three of them all together!

Ambient lighting is classed as general lighting that guarantees brightness. In a number of rooms it's practical to get your electrician to place this sort of lighting on a dimmer switch. For example in living rooms and dining rooms where you may want to create the right ambience for romance or entertaining. It can also be genuinely useful in bedrooms - particularly junior bedrooms where you may well like to check on the little ones in the middle of the night without frightening them wide awake! And in the bathroom, it can help create serenity after a hectic day - especially if accompanied by a candle or two.

Feature lighting highlights singular features that you want people to notice. Maybe a special painting or an appealing piece of your furniture. It can also appear good on shelving or in alcoves where it will guide people in the direction of attractive features.

Task lighting is very sensible. It ensures you can correctly see what you are doing. For example, cooking in the kitchen, reading a book in bed or applying make-up in front of a mirror. It provides strong light to a precise place and is essential for getting things done without straining the eyes.

Electricians will organize your lighting needs with several light options. Downlighters are buried into the ceiling or fixed to the wall. If they are going to be recessed you will want to check that the cavity between the ceiling and the floor above is wide enough to accommodate the lighting fixture. Downlighters will give narrow or wide beams of light, which ever one you choose, remember that the latter is a good solution for general lighting.

Uplighters are usually fixed to the wall and throw light upwards to the ceiling, which is then in turn reflected back into the room. Those type lights can increase the feeling of space and height in a room, as long as the ceiling is white or very pale.

Wallwashers cast light up and down a wall, again reflecting light into a room but also generating an alluring light feature on the wall, especially if the beams are narrow. They are exceptionally effective at highlighting attractive wall textures, for instance polished concrete or open brick work.

Decorative lights can be a brilliant feature and work particularly well if paired with other lighting so that the decorative light doesn’t have to do all the work of lighting an area. It can then be appreciated as a decoration rather than simply a light source. These include pendant lights, chandeliers and good-looking table lights.

Before your electrician installs the light fitting that you have selected, it's worth taking into account the type of bulb it needs. Low-voltage bulbs work particularly well as inconspicuous feature lighting. Fluorescent bulbs create even, flat light and are excellent for uplighters and wall washers. Clear tungsten bulbs with a bare filament will create highly defined shadows. Frosted bulbs provide softer, more diffused light.

Also, discuss with your electrician the kind of controls which you prefer. Apart from dimmers there are also controls which can include all of the lights in a room on pre-set controls, maybe you prefer to have the lights programmed to different moods - very bright, very dim or some lights on and others off. This allows you to create the suitable mood at the flick of just one switch rather than going round the room putting several lights on and off, which can be tiresome.

Good lighting will change a property. So make it a priority when you are redecorating - use it as the opening point and you can't go wrong.