Lighting in the kitchen plays a huge role, because of its quality depends the comfort of the hostess and other family members in this room. And when you start repairs in the kitchen, you need to think ahead about the placement of lamps, because one ceiling chandelier can not do.
Types of lighting fixtures for the kitchen
Variants of lamps for the kitchen are many. They can be ceiling, wall, built-in. Their main purpose is to highlight all functional areas of the room. Each of the types of lamps has its own characteristics, with which you need to be familiar, approaching the choice:
- Ceiling lamps for the kitchen. In turn, they are divided into hanging and spot lights for the kitchen, located, as a rule, above the dining table. If you do not like it, when you have a chandelier hanging over your head and prevent you from moving, there is always a version of short luminaires stretched along the ceiling, which do not occupy space. Or built-in spotlights, which are in the same plane with the ceiling. Be that as it may, ceiling lights are still the main source of light.
- Another kind of kitchen fixtures is wall-mounted. They are also divided into two categories: sconces and light beams (tubular lamps). Sconces for the kitchen are not very comfortable, they can be installed only over the dining table, if it is located near the wall. But the tubular beams have a more extensive field of application. They can play the role of both local and decorative lighting. They can be hidden under hanging cabinets, in ceiling niches and other places in the kitchen, thus ensuring effective lighting of working areas. There are two types of tubular lighting devices - fluorescent and LED tubes and tapes.
How to choose lighting fixtures for the kitchen?
In fact, it is not so difficult to choose lighting devices for the kitchen. It is necessary to know only a few nuances:
- decide on the type of lamp you need: as the main light you need a chandelier or other ceiling light, and for auxiliary lighting, you will use point LED lighting fixtures for the kitchen, the placement of which will depend on what you want to highlight with their help;
- another point, which you need to pay attention to when choosing - energy saving, and the leader among such fixtures are LED lights;
- it is also important that the luminaire is easy and convenient to control, and there are several options, including built-in, remote and sensor switches.
Advantages and disadvantages of spot lights for the kitchen
Spot lights in a competent layout can completely replace the main lighting. Their main advantage is that they can make the light in the kitchen even and soft. You can use them both separately and in combination with a ceiling chandelier, that is, for additional lighting.
If the lamps are mounted on halogen lamps and installed in strictly defined locations, this saves considerable energy costs. And if they are also rotary, it is very convenient to direct them to the right place, thus playing up space - raising the low ceilings and expanding the narrow walls.
Using as additional lighting spotlights with colored lamps, you can create a wide variety of designs, arrange accents and divide the room into zones.
Among the shortcomings of spotlights - more complex installation, the need to think about the placement of fixtures even at the stage of furniture assembly, if the kitchen lamp is to be mounted under the cabinets.
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