Competent and professional artificial home lighting is a guarantee of comfort and coziness. Professional designers, designing the interior, pay special attention to the placement and selection of light sources. The main purpose of artificial light is that it helps us to navigate in the space at night.
With the help of lighting devices can change the perception of any interior beyond recognition. Properly chosen and properly planned artificial lighting can turn your home into a perfect place to relax.
The rules of light correction of the interior
There are several techniques with which you can visually increase, narrow or expand the space. With the help of lighting, you can divide the space into zones. We offer you some basic rules of light correction of the interior of the house:
- In order to visually enlarge the space, use reflected or diffused light;
- to visually increase the volume of the room, use maximum lighting;
- if you have low ceilings, wall lights pointing upwards will help you “raise” the ceiling;
- “lower” the height of the ceilings will help devices that are designed to illuminate the walls and shade the ceiling;
- a narrow room will become wider if you place lights on one wall;
- with the help of lighting all the corners of the room can be achieved a visual expansion of space;
- if you place the lights along the middle line of the ceiling, you can narrow the space.
Living room lighting
The living room is usually where we watch television, have tea, host guests, read books, newspapers and magazines, and do creative work. If you want to read a newspaper or magazine in your living room in the evening, you will need a “working” directional light lamp that will not interfere with other family members doing their own things. To give your living room a dressy look, you should install a chandelier in the center of the ceiling. The ceiling can be illuminated around the perimeter or hang sconces on the walls.
Bedroom lighting
Light in the bedroom should be comfortable and functional. In addition to local lighting in the bedroom should be installed and general lighting. It is desirable that the general lighting should be diffused. If you put floor lamps in the corners of the room, you will create an atmosphere of softness and comfort in the bedroom. Do not forget to take care of the lighting of the bedside area, place small sconces on the wall or on the bedside table.
Brighten up your child’s room
The nursery is the brightest room in the house. A child’s room should have three lighting fixtures: a central chandelier, a daylight lamp on the desk and a soft, diffused light at the head of the bed – best if it were a night light. Give priority to convenience and safety when choosing fixtures for lighting a child’s room.
Kitchen lighting
In addition to the main (general) light, the kitchen should have functional lighting. It is necessary to brightly illuminate all work surfaces: the stove, the sink and the cutting table. The lighting in the kitchen should not blind the eyes. Good lighting for the kitchen can be spotlights mounted in a suspended ceiling.
Main conclusions
When choosing lighting for the home, you need to consider the following parameters:
- Power.
- The level of luminous flux.
- The degree of illumination.
- Color temperature.
- The size of the room.
- Shape, dimensions, design of fixtures.
It is necessary to make a lighting plan for all rooms at once. Almost all rooms are used multi-level lighting: basic lighting fixtures with diffused light and devices with directional emission to highlight certain areas. LED lamps are the best option for living quarters. LED panels, neon ribbons, glass blocks, recessed products are used to create decorative lighting. Night lighting, motion detectors and wireless fixtures will help to increase comfort and safety in the house.
