Explore the lighting options with Chapman & Myers
Whether you're preparing a meal, sitting right down to dinner or gathering with friends, everyone will like your kitchen best once you create the right look for every occasion with a well-designed kitchen lighting solution. While laying out your client’s kitchen lighting, create a beautiful and versatile design by incorporating multiple light levels for space. Start with the ambient lighting from Chapman & Myers for some general lighting for the entire room, add specific lighting for the tasks, and then make use decorative lighting accents for the ultimate touch.
Ambient Lighting
Ambient home lighting creates the overall brightness of your kitchen. Generally, for comfortable light levels, an area requires 25 to 30-foot candles (a measurement of light intensity). Task lighting needs some brighter lighting, approximately 50 to 75-foot candles. The space dimensions will also affect the ambient lighting, requiring either brighter bulbs or additional fixtures because the space increases.
Task Lighting
These days, kitchens are used for a good sort of functions. Adding task lighting will highlight a selected area, making it more usable and versatile. Kitchen work areas, like countertops, the sink, and the stovetop, are easier to use with additional lighting. Eating areas, just like the table or a breakfast bar, often become an outlined, intimate space within a bigger room with proper-placed lighting. Dark spaces in the corners and below the wall cabinets can easily be brightened with either under cabinet lighting or, with glass-fronted doors, within the cupboard itself.
Depending on the space's layout and which areas you would like to spotlight, a good selection of task lighting options is available. Small pendant lights can also create both additional lighting and a design element for a countertop or the kitchen island top. Under cabinet, lights make up the darker corners more usable throughout the kitchen, and typically operates best when the fixture is pulled upfront of the cupboard edge, therefore the light is hitting the middle of the counter-top.
By creating some variable task lighting with a dimmer switch is additionally useful, supplying you with the choice of higher light levels while working and a softer, warmer feel with the touch of a switch. this will be especially effective in smaller kitchens, where there's not room for extra task lighting.
Decorative Lighting
Let your kitchen lighting be both functional and delightful. Whether formal or casual, traditional or modern, a design component is often added with an attention-grabbing, artistic fixture. A particular chandelier, colorful glass shades or an iron fixture adds a designer flair and creates added interest to an otherwise ordinary room.
You may also wish to spotlight your kitchen design's ornamental architectural features with lighting, like a homemade tile back-splash, granite counter-tops, or well-crafted cabinetry details. Kitchen lighting can also focus on items you would like to display, like handmade pottery, a set of blown glass or the paintings and pictures persisted the walls.
Color of Lighting
While choosing the ambient, task, and ornamental lighting for your kitchen, remember the general feel is also suffering from your lighting color. For the kitchen, consider neutral lighting (2,900-3,600 Kelvin ratings) is that the best color temperature for general and task lighting, also as for the presentation of food. Match the nice and cozy incandescent bulbs in recessed cans and pendants for a uniform look.
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