Lighting tips to make your home 10 times fancier

Like good makeup can enhance one’s look, good lighting can make an ordinary space classy and improve our living experience. If the lighting is bad, even the most expensive decoration will be a waste of money.

Lighting just has this kind of ability to turn rot into miracles.

In home life, there are two ways to make us feel comfortable. One is to use massage chairs and other external aids to get physical relaxation. The other way is, atmosphere at home, so that people are relaxed both physically and mentally. This is why interior designer always emphasize the importance of “creating a good atmosphere, relaxed, or casual, or romantic … The ambiance of your home is your comfort zone, and the ultimate comfort is the fanciest.

Here to get the lighting tips, to make your home ten times fancier!

In the TV wall area, you can add indirect lighting fixtures with softer and more even light. Such as, light strips or some small downlights, to provide diffused light for the whole space, reduce the brightness difference between the TV screen and the background, and relieve visual fatigue.

If you like to lie on the sofa to with the phone at night, it will cause eye fatigue if the lights are all on, but if they are all off, your eyesight will get bad. So you can place a floor lamp next to the sofa and adjust it to a warm light to protect your eyes.

If you have decorative paintings in the living room, you’d better use the track spotlights with adjustable angles to light them up and provide indirect lighting for the nearby space, so that guests can clearly appreciate your paintings.

Dining room

A ceiling lamp can only be used for daily lighting, and it’s not good. There are two points to focus about lighting: in dining room. First is to the food clearly, and second is to see the diners clearly. The main idea of lighting design in the dining room is to make the food and diner look better.

Herefore, you can use downlights or stylish chandeliers to highlight the food and create a relaxing dining environment. In order to avoid a situation where the dining table area is too bright and other parts are too dark, you can choose some recessed lights to increase diffuse lighting and create a softly-lit space.

As can be seen from the picture above, the recessed spotlights are evenly distributed, and the overall light is weak and soft. The chandelier can shorten the distance between the diners and food, create a focal point, and increase appetite.

The distance between the chandelier and the desktop should be limited at 55-60cm, preferably not more than 80cm. This suspension height and the height of a common dining table can ensure that it will not be in the way of the conversation between the diners sitting around. When they stand up, the line of sight will be at the same height as the chandelier, and the light source of the chandelier will not be exposed.

Kitchen

As a delicacies production area, the kitchen is the place that needs lighting design the most of the whole house, but normally, people just install a ceiling lamp. When you cut vegetables or cook meals, you will find that you just block the light under the ceiling lamp, facing your own shadows.

First of all, white lighting should be adopted in the kitchen. Too warm or too cold will affect the judgment of the ingredients. A central light is still needed to provide overall lighting in the kitchen. Here comes the key point, the local lighting of the cooking table.

To add focus light above the cooking table and sink, install small spotlights or light strips for local and accent lighting, which is convenient for our daily life such as washing, cutting vegetables, and cooking.

If it is an open-plan kitchen, you can use an adjustable angle narrow beam angle spotlight to illuminate the cooking table, which can adjust the light more flexibly.

Bedroom

An important function of the bedroom is to rest. The lighting should not only meet the usual activities, but also take into account the ambient light when waking up at night. If there is one light in one room, the light will be very irritating to the eyes of people who open from the dark when they get up at night.

The lighting of the bedroom can be divided into three parts:

A, the overall lighting; B, the local lighting around the pillow; C, the local lighting of the wardrobe

Light fixtures that provide overall lighting can be installed in the center of the bedroom, on the ceiling above the end of the bed. Make sure the light will not directly enter the line of sight when you lie down. Ceiling lamps or chandeliers are suitable. But if you choose light strips, they can make the ceiling look higher than it is. The indirect lighting of diffuse reflection also create a cozy atmosphere.

For local lighting around the pillow, wall lamps that do not take up much space can be installed on the walls on both sides of the bed. Or place a table lamp on the nightstand for reading before bed and getting up to urinate at night.

The cloakroom needs uniform ambient light without chromatic aberration, and the wardrobe shelf should have supplementary lighting.

Bathroom

The lighting inside need to think a lot although the bathroom is small. If it is not designed properly, shadows will appear on the face when you standing in front of the mirror, which is not conducive to facial cleansing activities such as putting up makeup and shaving.

Add lights in front of the mirror, and the light can evenly shine to the face. This will prevent the situations above. It should be noted that the humidity level in the bathroom is usually high, so the selected lamps must be moisture-proof.

The area where the toiletries are placed under the mirror cabinet can also be equipped with light strips. Above the bathtub, you can use light strips to replace traditional ceiling light to create even and soft light.

If you have higher requirements for domestic atmosphere, whole-house intelligent lighting will be a good choice. Whole-house intelligent lighting is not just about dimming and color adjustment, it also realizes humanized intelligent scene setting. The brightness and color temperature can be set according to your own needs for different daily atmosphere, such as movie-watching, meeting, confidential conversation, sports, etc.

Take the smart reading scene in the bedroom for example:

You just say “Xiaoyou Xiaoyou, I want to read”, and the smart speaker “Xiaoyou” can automatically turn on the desk lamp and switch to the reading mode. And the desk lamp will automatically go into the soft light mode 45 minutes later, to remind us that it is time to have a rest.

Besides, “Xiaoyou” also makes it much easier to turn on/off the lights in the dark. You just say “Xiaoyou, Xiaoyou, I’m going to sleep”, and Xiaoyou can automatically turn off the lights, saving you moving yourself. When you get up at night, you can ask Xiaoyou to help you turn on the night light mode. Light in this mode is very soft and not dazzling at all.

Smart lighting is not a simple three-color dimmer, but a program with intelligent adjustment and scene-changing, which is more functional to meet your practical needs.

Most people think that as long as the room is bright enough, it will do. So the following rigid scene happens- “a fluorescent lamp or a ceiling lamp, that’s it”

How about it, feel like seeing your own home? Such a simple lighting setup can only meet the basic lighting needs. Actually you will find that there are many inconveniences, then you need to do a professional lighting design for home.

First of all, you have to know and understand the lighting, so that you can use the lighting reasonably~ A variety of lamps cooperate with each other, and the contrast between light and shade, which can not only improve the taste of the room, but also create a sense of layering in the room. If you want to build a house where life and lighting are coordinated, how should you do?

The main lamps used in the house

Foyer

The foyer is the buffer between the living room and the door, and it is also the “making point” of the first impression of the home. Whether it is to make life more convenient, or to leave a perfect first impression on visitors, the lighting design at the entrance cannot be sloppy.

For the overall lighting of the foyer, it is advisable to light softly on the faces of both family members and visitors. It is recommended to install the lamps above the door frame. At the same time, local lighting lamp can be installed to illuminate paintings or decorations, to create a welcoming atmosphere.

Living room

Living room is an important place for family reunion, relaxation and meeting guests. The lighting program has better be suitable for multiple purposes, that is, to change the brightness and atmosphere of the space by the combination of different light fixtures and dimming.

The lighting design of the living room can adopt both direct lighting and indirect lighting.However, due to the obvious boundary between the two, it is not easy to adjust. So it is recommended that you use the dimmable type to create a more relaxing and comfortable atmosphere (the brightness can be adjusted within the range of 50-200lx according to the behavior).

If you need to read, you can add a small desk lamp with soft light or a floor-standing reading lamp in the sofa area. The light from the reading lamp and the indirect light from the front will make the eyes more comfortable.