Choose your kitchen lighting

The kitchen is a living room where we spend time simmering good meals and enjoying them in a friendly space. Design, functional, comfortable are all qualifiers that evoke the perfect kitchen. If we often think of furniture, flooring, or even household appliances, lighting often, and wrongly, takes a back seat. This element must be considered upstream to be optimized. Functional lighting must also help to create an atmosphere and correspond to your uses. What are the different types of lighting possible? Which are the errors to avoid? We surveyed you.

What is the role of lighting in a kitchen?

Given the time we spend there, it is essential to feel good in your kitchen, which involves many elements, including lighting.

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Apart from the natural light that you may be lucky enough to enjoy, when we talk about artificial lighting for the kitchen, it is essential to identify three types of lighting associated with three functions which are:

• As the name suggests, general lighting allows you to achieve the overall brightness of the space. It will be more or less powerful depending on the size of the kitchen.
• Functional lighting is practical when cooking to illuminate a specific point (a hob, a worktop, or even a sink).
• This type of lighting helps you cook pleasantly while avoiding eye fatigue and accidents that can quickly happen in this room. In addition, by being positioned in critical locations, such as the inside of a drawer or a cupboard, this lighting accentuates the practicality of your kitchen by saving you significant time.
• Decorative lighting, as the name suggests, does not have a practical vocation but helps create a pleasant atmosphere in the room. It also participates in highlighting objects, volumes, playing on colors.

Good to know: to benefit from optimal lighting in your kitchen, these three functions must be thought out in advance. An overly lit or underlit kitchen will cause significant discomfort that should not be overlooked.

What are the different types of lighting possible?

As you can see, lighting plays a significant role in your kitchen. Also, it cannot be easy to bet on the correct elements the first time. How to choose healthily? Discover our tips!

A suspension 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 make it possible to lighten the room uniformly. Spider chandelier, ball, or wicker suspension, is the opportunity to dress up your ceiling while giving it the style you want.

Spots or strips

For functional lighting, on the other hand, it is advisable to bet on spots or strips which have a much more precise and often more intense light beam. They make it possible to illuminate a particular area.

For mood lighting

You can choose according to your desires wall lights, floor lamps, or even lamps to put on a dresser for mood lighting. These give the room a more cozy and calming atmosphere.

For an even more sophisticated look, you can opt for the light shelf: ideal for arranging glasses, the trendy element that makes all the difference.

Which are the errors to avoid?

The choice is generally veritably ( too) varied, and it can be grueling to decide. Also, given this multitude of proposals, it is easy to make the wrong choice. To prevent you from going through that, here are some of the mistakes to avoid:

 

• Think of single lighting: as we mentioned above, the kitchen's lighting fulfills three central and essential functions. Also, do not favor one to the detriment of another, at the risk of penalizing your comfort when using your kitchen. Note also that it is preferable to think about lighting upstream of the work because the installation of specific 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 illumination at the risk of obtaining a too dazzling effect which, in time, will prove to be tiring and unpleasant.

 

• Create too low light: Conversely, too low light is not beneficial either 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 light is not wise and risks reducing your comfort.

 

• Forget the planet and energy savings: beyond the aesthetics and functional aspect of your lighting, think about the energy consumption of your bulbs. It is preferable to choose energy-efficient elements such as LEDs or low-consumption bulbs.