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Kitchen The kitchen is the heart of the home. All guests entering your house will naturally gravitate towards it and usually it’s where you will spend most of your time. Keeping this in mind, getting the lighting right in your kitchen is essential. The spot in your kitchen where
you tend to stand to do all your meal preparation needs to be well lit without causing you to work in your own shadow. There are different ways to do this depending on your preference, budget and also the shape/size of your kitchen. The first option is a downlight directly over the work top - great as long as there are no huge cupboards in the way. The other option would be a spotlight angled correctly to shine on the worktop. This is particularly effective in rooms with sloping ceilings or shallow ceiling voids. It’s always important to keep
entertaining in mind with your kitchen. For a dinner party you’d only want a couple of dimmed wall lights and some hooded floor washers (such as our Faltu mini Eyelid) to give low level, low glare light. If you have an island in your
kitchen coupled with lovely high ceilings, you may want to consider going a little more decorative.
Pendants can look lovely and will provide task light onto your surface. Pendants also work well over dining tables – just make sure it’s hung at the right level so it’s not right in your eye line. Bathroom Bathroom lighting is a beautiful thing when done correctly. It may be that you want to make a feature of your roll top bath or accentuate some lovely mosaic tiles. Or perhaps you just want to create a nice dimmable, relaxing atmosphere. Firstly, always ensure your fittings
are IP rated – bathrooms are split into ‘zones’ which require different IP ratings. A fitting over a shower enclosure needs to be IP65 whereas a fitting over a bath only needs to be IP54. Your electricians will be able to advise you. The only real lighting you need in
your bathroom is over the mirror to help with shaving and make-up. The best ways to achieve this is diffused fittings either side of the mirror. Mirrors should ideally have a cooler white light to match natural daylight for your make-up. Back-lit mirrors look lovely but aren’t very effective at
lighting the face. When thinking about dimming, discuss with your electrician and with our technical team to see what can and can’t be done. It’s all about the driver. A relatively new technology we’re using is dim to warm. This is the process of changing the colour temperature of the LED chip from a cool white to a more relaxing warm white. Some bathrooms have tricky angles and tight spaces not always easy to light effectively. One of our Italian suppliers, Linea Light, specialises in discreet yet stylish LED lighting. In very small spaces, such as showers with sloping ceilings where we can’t use downlights or spots, we use a Linea Light 1 watt, wall mounted cube fitting called an Ilamt in groups of 3 or 5 to create an atmospheric effect but also provides effective down lighting. If storage space is an issue, you
could create a niche within the wall in the shower or by the bath to store the everyday essentials and light this up with a tiny downlight. Lastly, NEVER put a downlight directly
over a rounded metal shower head. This will cause a ring of reflected light on the ceiling and it will look awful.
LIGHTMASTER is a consultative lighting design and supply Company for residential, historical and commercial projects. We are experts in both natural and artificial light, with specific expertise in LED. We’re split into two different departments - Lightmaster Design for design work and Lightmaster Direct for product supply.
www.lightmaster-design.co.uk Tel: 01803 226154 or 01608 682115
www.lightmaster-direct.co.uk
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