Living room luminaires - How to create better lighting concepts for your four walls!
A living room without light is ... dark. So that you are not sitting in the dark in the evening, make sure you have good interior lighting. But: living room lighting can do more than just make the room bright. Interior luminaires provide good orientation in the room. They relieve the eyes with various hobbies. They create a relaxed atmosphere and divide the room into exciting light zones.
**Different light sources, modern lighting technology, appealing designs and a little creativity when designing your personal dream lighting.
What interior lights are available?
You don't need to be a lighting designer to fully exploit the lighting potential of your rooms. However, you should know that there are more light sources than a central ceiling light in the room.
The living room lights include ...
- Ceiling lights: They illuminate the entire room.
- Suspended luminaires: These illuminate certain areas, structure the room and, last but not least, are great eye-catchers thanks to their positioning at eye level.
- Wall lights: They make the room brighter, but also contribute to the staging.
- Floor lamps: They are available in various designs. What they all have in common is the improvement in brightness for all kinds of hobbies, from reading and sewing to relaxing on the couch.
- Table lamps: They are not only additional light sources that are simply plugged into a socket, but also popular design objects. On side tables and chests of drawers, they are luminous room highlights.
- Chandeliers: These not only fit into the villa, but in the right size in every apartment. Like pendant lights, they provide a striking design for the room.
- Recessed spotlights: They are a space-saving lighting solution. Used well distributed, they ensure good room brightness.
- Spotlights and spotlights: These lights highlight certain areas of a room - or, in the case of multi-flame ceiling spotlights, illuminate a room completely.
- Track systems: Perhaps the most flexible lighting solution on the market. Some planning is involved, but the result is a lighting solution that is unlike any other.
Which lights are recommended for which rooms?
Now that you know that there is more than just the ceiling light, you just need to know where which lights are best shown to advantage. A distinction is made between light sources:
- General lighting for the general room brightness
- Zone lighting for targeted lighting, e.g. of the desk
- Accent lighting for the decorative design of the room, e.g. with illuminated figures or LED strips
The goal of good lighting design is to have sufficient light available at every location so that the visual tasks carried out there can be performed well. A visual task ranges from simple orientation to working with documents in small print or even sewing in the living room.
The living room
The general lighting is often provided by all-round ceiling luminaires or several wall luminaires. Zone lighting is often created with the help of ceiling washlights on the reading chair or arc lights on the couch. You can achieve wonderful light accents with smartphone-controlled LED strips, for example.
The dining room
The general lighting is mostly provided by wall luminaires. The central place in the room is reserved for the pendant light above the dining table. This provides beautiful zone lighting at the dining table. LED strips in the crockery display cabinet, for example, are also used here to set the scene.
The kitchen
In the kitchen, ceiling lights and often recessed spotlights provide good general lighting, which must be supplemented by good zone lighting, especially above the work surfaces under the kitchen cupboards. Under-cabinet or built-in furniture lights are usually used here.(https://c_129) Accent lighting is used less frequently in the kitchen.
The bedroom
In the bedroom, ceiling lights with textile shade often provide comfortable room lighting. Area lighting in the form of a bedside lamp plays a very special role when reading in the evening. Decorative, illuminated lettering on a cupboard, for example, is popular as accent lighting in the bedroom.
The bathroom
The general lighting in the bathroom is achieved using simple ceiling lights or recessed spotlights. A particularly important part of area lighting are mirror lights, which provide the perfect light for shaving and applying make-up. Only decorative luminaires that meet the requirements for protection against foreign bodies and moisture in the room can be used as accent lighting. This must also be observed when installing all other lights!
The children's room
Balanced lighting** in the children's room consists of basic lighting such as pendant luminaires or ceiling luminairesas well as several lighting zones for different activities such as reading and doing homework. There is also accent lighting - the dim, cozy light that children love.
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The hallway
All-round, simple ceiling lights illuminate corridors without taking up too much space in corridors that are often far too narrow. Ceiling lights with motion detectors](https://c_17) are often used in stairwells, which is very convenient and simply economical. Area lighting and accent lighting** play a subordinate role in corridor lighting. However, a mirror light can make it easier to check your style before heading out the door.
Is LED the best lighting technology for living room luminaires?
Quite clearly: yes! LED lamps have had their teething troubles for years. Today they are the most versatile and economical type of light source on the market. They are available in many conceivable designs, from filament bulbs to wind gust bulbs and smart home bulbs. And as retrofits, they are compatible with older sockets without any problems. LED bulbs are not only significantly more energy efficient than conventional bulbs, but also longer-lasting.
A few more tips for choosing the right LED light sources for indoor luminaires:
- Warm white LED light sources create a pleasant lighting atmosphere and should be used wherever cosiness is desired. Warm white is the ideal color temperature for living rooms, bedrooms and other quiet areas.
- LED light sources with universal white color temperature are ideal for desk lamps. They create an objective light, which can also strengthen the ability to concentrate. Universal white light sources are also a good choice in the bathroom.
- You should always ensure a color rendering of at least Ra 80. At lower values, colors do not really come into their own, which is particularly noticeable at the dining table with food or in the bedroom with items of clothing.
A note on dimmability
Dimmable lighting is particularly important for creating a good ambience in the living room, bedroom and dining room. In addition to dimmable LED light sources, which are available separately as a category at Lights.ie (as not all LED light sources are also dimmable), EasyDim technology is particularly interesting for living spaces today. You do not need to install any additional dimmers for dimming - the luminaire has built-in dimming technology. The dimming process is activated by double-clicking on the normal light switch.
How do I get started with smart home lighting in the living room?
Today, living room lights have to be able to do more than just switch on and off. Interior lights are an integral part of the networked home in the modern smart home. And that makes sense when you think of the almost infinite customizability of the light and options such as presence simulation on vacation.
You can start with any starter set from one of the well-known systems, including the trendsetter PHILIPS Hue and the excellent systems Ledvance Smart+ or WiZ. The iDual lighting system works entirely without WLAN. Or you can integrate ZigBee compatible lights into your existing smart home system.
Controlling light via smartphone is then just an app installation away!
Which designers specialize in interior lighting?
In contrast to outdoor luminaires, indoor luminaires are less dependent on protection types and the like. This, the infinite scope for design and, of course, new, compact lighting technologies such as LED lighting make the interior light generally a sought-after design object for designers. Design companies, some with over 100 years of history, world-famous designers and countless up-and-coming talents ensure a colorful mosaic full of creative lights!
Let yourself be inspired by ...
- the striking luminaires from Artemide, which also decorate the rooms in countless first-class hotels, for example,
- the Nordic charm of the lights from Louis Poulsen or Northern,
- the world-famous designer lights from FLOS, which also appear in Hollywood films, for example,
- the historical replicas from TECNOLUMEN, which bring a piece of Bauhaus history into the home
- or the creative brilliance of Ingo Maurer, who does not need to adhere to any convention.
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