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Ideas for Elegant Kitchen Lighting

Ideas for Elegant Kitchen Lighting

Ideas for Elegant Kitchen Lighting

Kitchen lighting has the ability to transform your average looking kitchen into a kitchen with elegance fit for a Royal Family. With some careful planning and creativity, you can light up your kitchen for better functionality as well as promoting a sense of well being. One overhead lighting fixture is not enough to accommodate the entire kitchen space – in order to get the full effect you need to add layers of light sources.

Creating your Kitchen Plan

With all the lighting options available to choose from; it is easy to get overwhelmed. You can find simple ways to incorporate both direct and indirect lighting to allow for subtle yet elegant effects. Before you go about deciding where you are going to place your lights, take some time to prepare. Think about where these lights will be most effective, study the unique layout of your kitchen whilst considering cabinets, ceilings, natural lighting and other fixtures and fittings. Then take a look at the dimensions and the way in which you currently use the space within your kitchen. Direct lighting will be used to help carry out those daily kitchen tasks; whereas indirect lighting will simply offer ambience.

Direct Lighting

Direct lighting is needed for carrying out most tasks within the kitchen; from reading a recipe book to just preparing food. If you are opting for hanging light fixtures, it is recommended that you go for low voltage pendant lights which will hang over a table, island or a worktop which is used in order to prepare your food. Also, it is important to have a few lights fitted to the ceiling to shine over the kitchen area as the hanging light fixtures are only there to focus directly on the area in which you are using.

Indirect Lighting

Indirect lighting is used to create an ambient effect by obscuring the light source from view. Hidden lighting such as under cabinet lighting is an effective way to add warmth as well as an ambient glow to counters – these can be gu10 downlights or LED Strip lights. For decorative touches, it is possible to add in-cabinet lighting or any other accentual lighting touches which will help highlight small areas or display cases.

Keep Control

In order to blend direct and indirect lighting together, you need to adjust the level of each light for the required task or occasion. By using dimmer switches you can gain full functionality when needed or dim lights when desired. This helps save energy as well as setting the mood within the room for whatever occasion.