Dining Room Lighting

Dining room must please the eye and can improve the appetite, it must be clean and friendly. In order to dining room was comfortable, cozy, you must carefully consider not only the design space, but also to choose the right lighting, and accessories. Dining Room Lighting is designed to create a calm, relaxed atmosphere. Therefore, the type and location of lighting fixtures in the dining room to meet their basic function – forming on the surface countertops comfortable light spot. Common Dining Room Lighting may not be. If the other rooms such coverage is essential, in the main dining room light – local coverage.

By the Dining Room Lighting should be handled with special care. Not the right approach to the coverage can lead to, for example, that a beautiful chandelier will be more than the subject, while a lamp may be a bright, decorative element, whereby, a dining room will get its own unique charm.

Options lighting.

In the design of future dining room preferably in advance to think, how will be placed in it furniture. Depending on the planning decision, there are three main options to place The first of these, when the table is exactly in the middle of the room, does not need a detailed description – traditional lamp mounted in the center of the ceiling.

If the center of the table does not coincide with the geometric center of the ceiling, should appropriately shift the lamp or make it “floating”.

“Floating” option of lighting the dining room creates a light source on the moving levers and conductive tires. For this suit, the tall floor lamps.

In an open-plan home, when a kitchen, dining room and living room – is one room, the lighting is suitable for any of the presented options.

Level.

The height of the lamp depends on the power of its lamps. If the light source is weak, it should be closer to the top. Lamp with shade is placed so that at the lowest position of it spot light coincided with the edges of tabletops and in any event no less than it.

It is clear that all the details in advance can not be foreseen, so good, if the height of the lamp in the dining room is easily adjusted. By the way, the closer to the surface of the table it is, the more comfortable dining room looks like. The highly placed source of light creates an atmosphere of solemnity, sometimes even stiffness.

The direction of light.

For lighting tabletops used direct light. It means that in the zone table lamps should be placed with the open lower part. Their top can be open, while the ceiling forms the light spot. If the lamp with shade only in the dining room, its material must pass the scattered light, which is distributed throughout the room.

Do not install over the table a strong point source of light – it creates harsh shadows that distort objects and faces.

Select.

The main types of fixtures for dining rooms are divided by location of several groups: stationary – Ceiling and portable – table lamps and floor lamps. In the dining area of kitchen, dining room to the ceiling above the table often hung a single lamp. The classic – a lamp with cloth shade. Cloth very effectively dissipates and restricts the flow of light and its color can create around a lamp-colored, enveloping twilight. At the same time on the tabletop from the shade falls bright direct light.

Lampshade can be frosted in white or colored glass and other translucent material.

The main Dining Room Lighting can also be arranged with the help of a high table lamp. Direct light from it should fall straight down to the top. Normal wear and slight upward luminous flux. On either side of such a lamp should be subject to the maximum soft, diffused light.

The oblong dining table can be lighted with a few small lamps. Their height would not necessarily be the same. “Traveling” table in the dining room can be lighted with autonomous floor lamp on a long curved base.

If you use a serving table, take care of its lighting a single lamp or a sconce. Highlighting the buffet, buffets, slides and windows will give your eyes delight in the contemplation of its beloved grand dishes, figurines and flower arrangements, which is decorated dining room.

All tips for dining room lighting are quite suitable for light cuisine. After all, many boldly combine the kitchen and dining room. Such space (kitchen-dining room) is convenient for the hostess, and guests, and for the household.

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