Certified-Lighting.com | Kitchen Lighting

For general kitchen lighting, upper even light distribution gently flowing from the ceiling is optimal. To create such light you may use several categories of lighting fixtures. First of all, it's all sorts of spotlights, both stationary and moving, freely rotating in several directions.

The main task of top lighting is to keep a light atmosphere of the kitchen in the evening. In addition, if the kitchen area in an apartment with open plan has no windows, ceiling light is a complete replacement of fluorescent lighting orienting. In such kitchens with always-on lamps it is difficult to predict the required amount of light. Typically, the light of spotlights is not enough or is too obtrusive.

This difficult situation has different solutions. For example, you can create the illusion of a ceiling windows. To do this, use the hanging structures modeled from translucent light impermeable materials. The best in this situation is to apply elongated linear sources of artificial light.

General lighting can be created by several ceiling fixtures that provide evenly distributed in kitchen space light. But it often requires too many lamps. Thus sometimes it is better not to uniformly fill the kitchen with light overall, but concentrate ceiling lights above their main functional areas: workplace, dining table and a bar, if available.