Kitchen Lighting Tips
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Contemporary kitchens serve a dual role as both a place to prepare food and increasingly as a place where people naturally tend to congregate and socialise informally. The key to successful kitchen lighting then is in mirroring that balance between form and function. In other words being able to both create a warm inviting ambience and provide well lit task areas.
This balancing act is not in fact as tricky as most people imagine. The easiest solution is to forget trying to satisfy these various competing demands with a single set of lights, but instead design for each of these roles separately and assign each individual set of lights to its own switch.
Even better is to install dimmer switches in order to more finely control the balance between the various lighting circuits. Now if you need to chop vegetables for example you can flood the worktops with bright task lighting. If instead you want to enjoy a cosy meal at the kitchen table then you can drop the under cabinet lights and throw a warm pool of light onto the table with a pull-down pendant light.
Top kitchen lighting ideas: think about lighting at all the levels commonly found in a kitchen, not just the ceiling or just underneath units; also, don’t forget the floor – plinth lights and LED lighting set into to the toe kick board will flood the floor with light, increasing the impression of space and making the units appear to float.
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