Lighting Tips for Living Room, Kitchen and Bathroom

When designing a room, it is often easy to overlook the type and quality of lighting in favour of other elements, like the paint, flooring, décor, and furniture. However, it is equally important as every other aspect of the room. In fact, lighting is a critical factor when you want to achieve the right type of mood or feel to any particular room in your home, like the living room, kitchen, and bathroom. Consider these lighting tips to help you get started with the proper type of lighting for each of those areas:

• Living room – ‘Layering’ is a concept that is practical in a living room, which is an area where people spend a lot of time and engage in many different activities, like watching TV, playing games, reading, doing homework or working, and socialising. Lights that can bounce off the ceiling can make your living room more conducive for activities because they provide ambient illumination. With bouncing light, you can create a brighter living room and avoid the shadow effect of recessed downlights.

For ambient lighting, consider adding valance or cove lighting into the living room’s architecture. A linear bulb can be added behind an entertainment unit or a bookcase that will not reach up to the ceiling. Consider dimmable lights that provide a warm look and excellent colour rendering. Alternatively, you can create light-washed walls with valance lighting or track or recessed lighting that is aimed at the walls. You can achieve this with plug-in lamps that have globes facing upward, too.

• Kitchen – Under cabinet lighting provides light to a countertop without an overhead light, which tends to cast shadows on the person working at the counter. The sink is typically placed by a window to make the most of natural light, but consider installing a ceiling-mounted or

recessed lighting fixture above, too.

Modest kitchens should have a ceiling-mounted central fixture for ambient light, undercabinet light for task lighting, spot lights for task lighting above the sink, and pendant lights for ambient or task lighting over an island.

• Bathroom – Both sides of the mirror should have lights. If you have a small bathroom, consider a wall-mounted fixture on both sides of the mirror to avoid shadows. A common lighting design in bathrooms is a ceiling-mounted central fixture and another above the mirror, but you can consider wall sconces either side of your mirror and another one on the opposite wall.

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Simple Lighting is a U.K supplier of high quality, affordable lighting products to domestic, wholesale and trade customers.