Top 5 smartest lighting solutions
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Lighting is an important aspect of your home, and over and above general lighting with the right plan you can fundamentally improve your home's practicality, ambience and aesthetics.
Standard lighting is your very basic lighting that helps you see when it's dark. This lighting is fairly standard - ceiling unit plus bedside lamp type plan.Practical lighting (or task lighting) is lighting related to a specific function. Ambient lighting (accent or aesthetic lighting) can be used to highlight specific things (like paintings) or create moods (eg low coloured lights) or simply add depth to the general lighting by creating light from all angles instead of one.
Top 5 most ingenious lighting solutions
- Headlamps. Light wherever you look. Need I say more?
- Kitchen cupboard lighting - think about cooking in your kitchen and how useful lights under the top cupboard over the worktop would be. No more shadows cast from ceiling lights - less accidents, and maybe better food!
- Overhead lighting switch near the bed - if everyone makes the pre-bed trip once a day for the rest of their lives (to the bedside lamp to turn it on, back to the door to turn the general light off, and then back to the bed) then that's a lots of excess energy expended! So yes, a bit of an exaggeration but nonetheless, being able to switch the main light off when you're actually in bed is amazingly convenient. You'll see this less in homes than you do in hotels, but definitely worth investing in a little extra wiring.
- Expandable lamp cords - remember the 80's where lots of ceiling lights could be pulled down (smaller area, more light) or pushed up (bigger area, less light)? Exceptionally retro but in the right position in the right room, your general lighting can double as your practical lighting.
- In cupboard lights - especially kitchen cupboards, larger pantries and some bedroom cupboards. You could have sufficient lighting from your general lighting, or just never be able to see past the first line of cans.
Service Central has great electricians that can advise you on your lighting needs as well as specialist lighting businesses that can design, supply and install your lighting solutions. Remember, you can purchase lighting solutions yourself but a licensed electrician needs to install them!
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