How To Create An Effective Kitchen Lighting Design

In kitchen decoration, lamps play an important role, not only to meet the lighting function, but also to play a decorative role. If you think the kitchen is too simple, adding suitable lighting, just like adding a filter to the kitchen, making the simple kitchen decoration have an artistic sense.

However, 90% of kitchen renovations are easy to install the wrong kitchen lights.

Kitchen Lighting Layout

The kitchen should choose the corresponding functional lighting, basic lighting, and ambient lighting according to the function, size, and style of the kitchen.

Top Light: Provides Basic Lighting

Ceiling lights can illuminate the entire kitchen. If your kitchen space is relatively small, it is enough to provide lighting for the overall space of the kitchen; if your kitchen is relatively large, you can add a few more recessed spotlights.

Installation tips:

If there is a lot of cooking fumes in the kitchen, and lamps with simple shapes which are easy to clean.

Spotlight: Provides Functional Lighting

The ceiling light is usually located in the center of the top of the kitchen. However, more lights are required when cooking. The light source of the operation area for washing and cooking may be blocked by wall cabinets and people.

In order to ensure that the operating area of the kitchen has a high brightness, some spotlights can be embedded in the cabinet above the operating console.

Installation tips:

① Reserve the power cord on the wall;

② When custom the cabinet, pay attention to the size of the lamp hole.

Cabinet Light Strip: Provides Functional Lighting

Like the spotlight, the cabinet light strip is also functional lighting. The light strip is installed on the cabinet above the console, which can focus the light source more when in use.

Installation tips:

① The bottom panel of the wall cabinet needs to be slotted;

② Choose easy-to-clean materials.

Pendant Light: Ambient Lighting

For kitchens with integrated dining, pendant light can be installed above the dining table. The slender hanging wire has a good decorative effect, making dining warmer.

Warm light or cool light?

Warm light can bring a warm atmosphere to the interior, and is generally suitable for bedrooms, while the main function of cool light is lighting, and enough light is needed for washing, cutting and frying in the kitchen. Therefore, cool light is generally used in kitchen decoration to play the role of lighting.

Kitchen lighting is also an important part of kitchen decoration. If you want the kitchen to be durable and elegant, the choice of lighting should not be ignored.