In a small space, everything needs to work hard, regardless of whether that means serving a practical purpose, making a bold stylistic statement, or, ideally, doing both. (And let’s not look past the importance of lighting. Few other factors contribute so much to the apparent size, comfort, and flexibility of a small space.)
Homeowners who are looking to inject some personality without cluttering up their floors will find that custom neon signs are a creative solution. Signage is lightweight and unobtrusive, and fastening it to the wall turns what would be a pedestrian, single-function add-on into a unique light fixture that sets the tone for the room.
Wall-Mounted Signage Saves Floor Space
One of the golden rules of small-space design is to maximise your vertical space. Before long, a small room starts to feel cramped if its walls are lined with furniture, freestanding decor, and other ornaments. By transferring your visual interest to the walls, you’re leaving more room to roam.
By mounting a neon sign on the wall, it is possible to consume the quantity of elbow room that a piece of art would have, but also to literally light the room. You could use this solution above a sofa, a bed, a desk, or a kitchen table. Wherever you might like to imagine that it was possible to hang lights, now it is.
Neon Signage Helps Divide Your Space into Zones
The heart of good design is flexibility, and this couldn’t be truer than when it comes to small floor plans. We expect a dining table to double as a desk during the day, and a sofa to become a bed come sundown, and it’s only fitting for the lighting to adapt to the setting.
Thankfully, custom neon signs offer a clever way to delineate informal borders between spaces in a room. Hang one overhead a desk if you’d like to set the work space apart from a living or sleeping space, or place a matching pair near a nook or cranny that serves a specific purpose for you.
Efficient Lighting Solutions for Small Homes
The limitations of energy use are at the forefront of many tiny-house and eco-home builders’ minds in the search for ways to light their space. Older-style neon will use glass neon tubes, whereas modern neon-look designs are actually made from LEDs. In comparison, the LED designs tend to be kinder on the power usage and heat generated, and well-suited to the Lilliput larger, yet still small, space.
Brands like the wonderful Yellowpop have helped to translate combinations of environmental light criteria into modern interior-design-informed spaces. But the homeowner still needs to make decisions for their space about power needs and consumption, wall space, light, and placement.
Adding Uniqueness without Adding Clutter
The space for the raw proportion of the mini house does require that the homeowner choose less stuff, but a less-stuff-filled space need not look as though it is designed by a furniture showroom either. The challenge is in choosing some things of distinct importance to provide character to the home without building a veritable fort out of the things one is no longer buying left and right.
The custom neon sign is a terrific solution to this problem, too. Once crafted, a simple LED-created artwork sign and lighting fixture can be affixed to the wall to provide light and personality throughout the space. The right-sized sign, simply attached and used well across different lighting needs in the room, can provide a versatile design turn and attention flow without having to be hauled around when one moves or steps around it when the function overload becomes too much.
