Kitchen Lighting
For most of us, our kitchens are one of the most-used rooms
in the house. Not only do we relax in our kitchens, but we perform a lot of
tasks - work that requires good quality lighting. Kitchen lighting requires
that we pay attention to glare, shadows in order to make this room both functional
and enjoyable.
Kitchen Pointers...
- Avoid using a single light fixture in the center of
the room as your task light or you will always be working in your own shadow.
- Track lighting is best when aimed at walls - using
track lights to illuminate the middle of a room is asking for glare problems.
- Light colored surfaces make a bright, cheery kitchen
easier to achieve - dark cabinets are hard to "brighten up".
- Shiny granite counters are fashionable, but are ALWAYS
sources of glare and difficult to light.
- In a kitchen the tasks are horizontal and the task
lighting should be optimized for that orientation (i.e. shining down onto
the horizontal surface).