If you are selling your home, one way to accentuate your home's best features is to light them. For example, if you have a great fireplace, you can put uplights on the mantle, or perhaps flank the fireplace with beautiful floor lamps on each side. Lighting is also a key Feng Shui technique for enhancing the energy in a space. Beautiful lighting makes you feel good, and feel good about the space in you are in, so it's a great way to enhance potential buyer's experience of your home.
Also consider using small uplights under plants to accentuate them and
provide interesting shadows on the ceiling.To make a room feel
inviting, lighting from lamps is far superior to overhead lighting. This is because overhead lights tend to cast unflattering shadows.
Click the photo to the right to see it larger. This is an example of one my lighting designs. We put uplights on the top and in the plants on the side. 
We put down lights inside the shelving unit to give it depth. With this lighting arrangement, there is no need to burn candles! We also hooked up all the lights to a single switch to turn them on and off.
Your lighting plan should call for lighting each area of the room with lamps or task lighting as needed. If you have several lamps that you would like to turn on all at same time, link them all into one extension cord, and then plug that into a single flip switch which plugs into the wall. You can buy these at hardware stores, or home stores such as Home Depot or Lowes.
Lighting can also be used to help you get motivated to organize and keep things neat! If you have an area that you tend to be messy with, casting a light on it will help you keep it neat. For example, once you've organized the items on a shelving unit, lighting up the inside of the unit will help motivate you keep the shelves neat!
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All the best,
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