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· 30 Jun 2022

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Updating Your Kitchen Lighting

Updating Your Kitchen Lighting

Your kitchen is one of the most important areas in your home. That is why you should design it to provide maximum comfort and efficiency. If you are not happy with your current kitchen, you should consider redesigning it to suit your tastes.

One of the most forgotten, but essential to having the kitchen of your dreams, is good lighting. Most people spend all their time focusing on the rest of the kitchen, such as cabinets, countertops, appliances, etc. As a result, they forget about this important but often overlooked part.

When you want the right lighting in the kitchen, start by deciding what kind of atmosphere you want your kitchen to have. Kitchen lights come in an infinite number of variants; therefore, it is important to know what you want first.

If you start your search without thinking about what you are buying, you will probably end up lost and confused. Here are some ideas for types of kitchen lighting that you should consider when starting your search.

NORMAL LIGHT
One of the most popular lighting fixtures in the kitchen are ceiling lights. Not long ago, this was the only kind of simple kitchen he had. The best part about ceiling lights is that they are usually the cheapest kitchen lamps available. If you are redesigning your kitchen on a budget, this might be a good place to start. In addition to ceiling lights, another option is hanging lights. These usually come in two different types: chandeliers and pendants. Paint lamps hanging down, usually a foot or more from the ceiling. Chandeliers may give your kitchen a nice and expensive look, though you can often find great deals on them. Remember, you need to have a plan for what kind of weather you want before deciding which light items to take with you. Before buying a chandelier, make sure it will fit all your kitchen theme. These lights together are also called standard lighting.

THE WORK IS LIGHT
Apart from this, you should also consider lighting up the work. You should not really cut your fingers with a knife in the workplace because you are throwing a shadow standing under your beautiful new council. Work kitchen lighting should be directed and illuminated.

If there is only natural light in your kitchen, you can see where the work light is needed. Just look to see if there are dark areas in your kitchen. If you see a dark area over work or over the counter, you should have a work lamp there. If you have a kitchen island, place a few hanging lights above it as a work light. If you can't see what's in the sink ... you know something else.

LIGHT OF ACCENT
To finish, think about the lighting of your kitchen. These are lights that provide all the soft, indirect light - and usually determine the ‘mood’ of your kitchen.

You can put voice-type lamps inside the cabinets (preferably if it is glass), and place some lights to highlight a picture or interesting details. To add fizz to your kitchen, consider installing dim lights under the toe kick. It will make your cabinets look floating and give a great accent glow.

Tips:
• The hanging space on the table provides interest in decorating the room with good natural light.

• To illuminate the island, you can use fluorescent lights or recessed lights over the island. For more visible interest; however, try using a pendant or a combination of two or three small pendants.

• Use recessed lights to highlight the kitchen artwork or collections shown above cabinets. If you have glass or open display shelves in your cabinets, light them with small halogen lamps or fluorescent strips.

• For soft, indirect lighting, mount fluorescent lamps, hidden over cabinets.

• The light kicking under the cupboards is getting louder and louder. Not only does it provide a brilliant light in the room, but it also illuminates a quick midnight trip to the kitchen to get water without turning on the bright lights.

• Use halogen or fluorescent under cabinet lights to light up the table where you prepare food.

• Whether you wash dirty dishes or cut vegetables, the sink needs to be lit effectively. Since the recessed lights guide the light down, they are a better choice than the sink.

• Reusable lights placed in front of cabinets serve many purposes. They emit a soft ambient light, send extra light into cabinets to help complete the search with dark cabinets, and provide extra light to the tops of the counter.

LIGHT CONTROL
You must have the right amount of switching in the right places. Do not include a single switch that opens everything. That is the worst thing you can do. Since you don’t just cook in your kitchen, you need a different light at different times.

If you are thinking of installing switches, you should have a switch for each type of kitchen lighting - one standard, one functional - and your accent lighting. You can also split the lights by 'geography': the work light switch switch should be close to the workspace. To get pendants over the kitchen island you should have a switch near the island.

You do not need to put more than 4-5 switches in a medium-sized kitchen; However, just think of what you do in your kitchen and what kind of light you need for any job. Then put them together and share the switch.

You should also consider using different types of switches: dimmer switches are a better choice than standard switches. Dimmer Switches give you more control over your kitchen light. They also help you keep the switch number low, as you can change the lights a lot this way.

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