Indoor Lighting Ideas: Using Solar Lights to Light Up Your Life

Solar lights are not just for the outdoors. Remember those solar-powered calculators that you used to use? Did you ever wonder why that same solar power couldn’t be captured and used to provide electricity-free light indoors? These decorative and functional solar lights are made for use indoors. In some cases, these indoor lighting ideas are implemented by sharing solar lights from your indoor spaces and your outdoor spaces.

Benefits of Using Solar Lights Indoors

Solar lights are a good choice of lighting for creating light in any low-lighting situations including early morning hours or twilight hours.

Indoor lighting is also useful when you lose electric power. A solar light can allow you to perform some normal activities, when the power goes out at night, when everyone in the house is still awake.

Indoor solar lights also offer you design freedom to apply indoor lighting ideas and brighten decor without being tied to the location or availability of electric outlets in a room. This is an important consideration for families living in older homes which have a sparse number of electric outlets.

Indoor Lighting Ideas Using Solar Lights

Solar Lights Skylights

Think of a solar light skylight like a regular skylight, except the light comes through under a traditional-looking dome in the ceiling. The Solar Light Skylight itself is a tubular, not rectangular skylight.

The solar light skylight lets in bright light but they also block approximately 99 percent of UV rays.

Any handy person can install a solar light skylight in their home in a couple of hours.

Amazing Solar Globelight

A solar globelight can be used inside or outside. Leave the brightly colored globe outside or in a bright window to soak up the most sun. The solar globelight can be placed on a plant stand or in a decorative bowl of water for a festive indoor lighting option.

The solar globelight comes in three different designs. The blue solar globelight has black snowflakes. The green solar globelight is decorated with tree branches. A bright pink solar goblelight has reindeer, perfect for the holidays.

You will not be able to see the solar pane on the he solar globelight , but it will provide you will up to 12 hours of light.

The solar globelight retails for about $25 and can be found Solar Home

Outdoor Garden Lights

Also consider using solar garden lights indoors. Purchase your solar garden lights in pairs. Opt for the decorative solar garden lights including the ones shaped like flowers. At night, swap the outdoor solar garden light for one indoors. Plant the charged outdoor solar light inside the soil of your indoor plant. Now you can enjoy the solar garden light indoors.

Sculpture Meets Function

The decorative and sculptural solar lights from TheGreatIndoors.com will add light and conversation to your home. These solar lights stand on the table and are made from wire butterflies, wire birds and wire butterflies. They retail for about $50 when on sale.

Sources

The Great Indoors, http://www.thegreatindoors.com
Natural Light Energy Solutions, http://www.nltubular.com
Solar Home, http://www.solarhome.org