Bright, powerful illumination that lights up a room in its entirety… General lighting, or now mostly known as “ambient” lighting is made for a single purpose: to provide you with uniform levels of illumination over the entire space completely independently from other lighting sources. 

Creating a strong ambient illumination through “bounce” and reflections off the walls, thus ensuring safe and easy navigation as its primary purpose.  

Achieving a specific desired effect by focusing on certain points of interest is what accent lighting does best.  

Whether you want to create an impression of a larger room, highlight a certain feature or decoration focal point such as a beautiful collection, or even a certain unique piece of art, accent lighting is the right thing for you. 

In general, accent lighting shines upon three times as much light on the focal point as ambient lighting provides to emphasize it. Have a higher output and narrower beam angle to focus the light only where required. This is a requirement to create a noticeable contrast with the ambient lighting that will guide your gaze where it must go.