Kitchen lighting is an important stage in its design

When planning the design of a room, you need to take into account the lighting, because it can make the interior either perfectly comfortable or defiantly uncomfortable. Quite often there are problems with lighting in small rooms, for example, in the bathroom and in the kitchen. How should it be - the correct lighting in the kitchen?

A feature of the kitchen is that this premise is often small, but rather multifunctional: often because of the lack of a dining room it is used not only for cooking, but also as a dining room. It is not uncommon and the reception of guests at the kitchen table. Thus, lighting the kitchen should be thought through, considering all these moments.

It is advisable to plan lighting for the kitchen at the beginning of the renovation after its design is determined and the layout of the furniture is thought out. Once it was not a problem - in the middle of the ceiling hung one chandelier - that's all! But it is for the kitchen that the shadow that forms the shadow is not the best choice. Ideal option is now considered lighting each functional area of the kitchen separately. Therefore, it will be most effective to combine different types of lighting: general, decorative and local.

The general lighting of the kitchen is intended to optimally maintain the level of the entire illumination of this room in the evening. This type of highlighting is better to make bright, but rather soft, without sharp shadows and any light contrasts. The overall lighting should evenly scatter throughout the kitchen. It is desirable to do as much as possible natural, thus it is not recommended to use color fixtures. Prefer to advise fluorescent lamps. Also, the source can be a chandelier or ceiling built-in lights.

It should be taken into account that the general light does not replace the lighting of functional zones. It is important that the dining area and the cooking area are equipped with separate lamps. If there are hanging cabinets, it is best to place the local lighting under them. Such a light will well illuminate the entire working surface and will not be brightly beaten in the eyes. It is also convenient to use elongated lamps when the light is evenly distributed throughout the working surface. For kitchens where there are no wall-mounted lockers, stand-alone lamps are perfect.

Above the dining table can hang 1 or 2 brackets, fixed about 1 meter above the existing level of the table. In the case where the dining table is in the center of the room, while a clear accent, as a local source of lighting, you can use a high table lamp or lamp located directly above this table. Lighting the kitchen will be more intimate, if the lamp will hang as low as possible.

To illuminate the tabletop, directional light flux is important, so it is better if the chandelier or lampshade or lampshade is only open from the bottom. Too powerful lighting fixture is not needed here: a bright color will create sharp shadows that ugly distort objects and faces. The circle of light must capture the entire table top, so that it does not have a shadow and boundaries of light.

By the way, in a very large or, on the contrary, a very small kitchen can have one local lighting. In these cases, general lighting of the kitchen is not necessary.

Decorative lighting of the kitchen is planned according to the taste of the owners. A very interesting feature can be cabinets with translucent doors, illuminated from the inside. The main thing is that such lighting should be harmoniously combined with the rest. You can use dimmers to adjust the atmosphere in the kitchen and the intensity of the backlight.

Lighting the kitchen must be balanced and harmonious. Planning it, we must build on the kitchen interior, as there is no universal lighting scheme: in each of the kitchens, everything will necessarily look unique.