Realize the lighting of a kitchen

Realize the lighting of a kitchen

The kitchen is one of the most important rooms in the house, not only used for cooking and eating it is also a place of conviviality and exchange. To choose the lighting of a kitchen, it is necessary to take into account all the activities that will take place and find the right balance between these two simple rules:

·         avoid the complexity linked to a number of bright spots too important

·         do not settle for a single point of light for the whole piece that would penalize the overall rendering

The idea is to install a bright spot for 1 to 3m². It is important to mix the different style of lighting (general lighting, functional lighting and decorative lighting) to obtain a final result is both elegant and practical.

Think about the basic lighting of the room:

The basic or functional lighting is intended to provide the necessary brightness to the entire room. It constitutes the base of the lighting. For a kitchen, recessed lights are an interesting solution because they are both powerful, discreet and bring a modern touch to the room.

If you do not wish to install recessed spotlights, then opt for chandeliers equipped with bulbs of high power at least equivalent to 75W equivalent or more with a broad diffusion angle (270 ° minimum). With this basic lighting, all of your kitchens are lit.

Realize the lighting of the work areas

To make the kitchen a pleasant place, it is necessary to have lighting adapted to the tasks to realize. For this lighting, it is important to choose powerful and focused light sources, that is to say with a lighting angle of less than 60 ° which allows directing the light towards the desired place, for example, these small spots LED.

For worktops, rigid LED strips are a very good solution. You can also make custom length strips with a profile and ribbon. They have the advantage of being discreet and easy to install even in an existing kitchen:

The decoration

This is the creative part of lighting where you can let your imagination run wild. For decorative lighting, you can use mini-spots, rigid ribbons or flexible LED ribbons.

The combination of all these elements makes it possible to obtain a kitchen at the same time well lit, functional but also design and well put in value.