How To Choose Your Kitchen Lighting
The kitchen is a room in which we spend time simmering good meals and enjoying them in a friendly space. Design, functionality, comfort are all qualifiers that evoke the perfect kitchen. If we often think of furniture, flooring or even household appliances, lighting often, and wrongly, takes second place. This element must be considered upstream in order to be optimized. Functional, the lighting must also contribute to creating an atmosphere and correspond to your uses. How to choose your kitchen lighting, what is the role of lighting in a kitchen? What are the different types of lighting available? Which are the errors to avoid ? Here is all you need to know to make up your mind!
How To Choose Your Kitchen Lighting
What is the role of lighting in a kitchen?
In view of the time we spend there, it is important to feel good in your kitchen and this involves many elements including lighting.
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Apart from the natural light that you may be lucky enough to enjoy, when talking about artificial lighting for the kitchen, it is important to identify three types of lighting associated with three functions which are:
- General lighting, as the name suggests, allows you to achieve overall brightness in the space. It will be more or less powerful depending on the size of the kitchen.
- Functional lighting is useful when you cook, to illuminate a very specific point (it can be a hob, a worktop or even a sink). This type of lighting helps you to cook in a pleasant way while avoiding eye fatigue but also accidents that can quickly happen in this room. In addition, by being positioned in key places such as the inside of a drawer or cupboard, this lighting accentuates the practical aspect of your kitchen by giving you significant time savings.
- Decorative lighting, as its name suggests, is not utilitarian but helps to create a pleasant atmosphere in the room. He also participates in highlighting objects, volumes, by playing on colors.
To benefit from optimal lighting in your kitchen, you should think of these three feature in advance. An over-lit or under-lit kitchen will cause significant discomfort that you should not be overlook.
What are the different types of lighting available?
As you can see, lighting plays a major role in your kitchen. Also, it can be complicated to bet on the right elements the first time. How to choose well? Check out these tips!
– A pendant light or a ceiling light
For the general lighting of your kitchen, it is appropriate to opt for a pendant or a ceiling lamp.
These will indeed make it possible to lighten the room in a uniform way. Spider chandelier, ball or wicker suspension, this is the opportunity to dress up your ceiling while giving it the style you want.
– Spotlights or strips
For functional lighting, on the other hand, it is advisable to bet on spotlights or strips which have a much more precise and often more intense light beam. They illuminate a particular area.
– Mood lighting
For mood lighting, you can choose wall lights, floor lamps or even lamps to put on a chest of drawers according to your desires. These give the room a more cozy and soothing atmosphere.
For an even more sophisticated look, you can opt for the illuminated shelf: ideal for displaying glasses, it’s the trendy element that makes all the difference.
What are the errors to avoid ?
When it comes to lighting, whatever the room in the house, the choice is usually very (too) varied and it can be complicated to decide. Also, given this multitude of proposals, it is easy to make the wrong choice. To save you from having to go through this, here are some of the mistakes to avoid:
- Think of a single lighting: as we mentioned above, kitchen lighting fulfills 3 major and essential functions. Also, do not favor one to the detriment of another, at the risk of penalizing your comfort when using your kitchen. Also note that it is preferable to think about the lighting upstream of the work because the installation of certain luminaires supposes the creation of an opening in the wall.
- Create too intense lighting: if it is true that a kitchen needs to be well lit, it is however not necessary to multiply the lighting at the risk of obtaining an effect that is too dazzling which, in time, will turn out to be tiring and unpleasant.
- Creating too dim lighting: Conversely, too dim lighting is also not beneficial because you could also strain your eyes.
- Betting on unsuitable lighting elements: choosing a floor lamp for general lighting or a decorative lamp for functional lighting is not a wise choice and risks reducing your comfort.
- Forget the planet and energy savings: beyond the aesthetics and the functional aspect of your lighting, think about the energy consumption of your bulbs. It is indeed preferable to choose energy-efficient elements such as LEDs or low-consumption light bulbs.
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