Functional kitchen lamps: do-it-yourself lighting

Furniture lamps in the kitchen can be built-in or overhead Lamps in your kitchen make you feel like you are at home. Most of a person’s life takes place in the kitchen. This is the place where food is prepared with your own hands, where the household meets for a meal and, in some way, the center of family life. Often they distinguish between the lighting of the working area of the kitchen and the dining area. Therefore, it is important for the kitchen to choose and pick up individual lighting with your own hands..

What should be a kitchen lamp: minimum requirements

The modern kitchen in most apartments is used for both cooking and consumption. Older houses tend to have separate kitchens, but nowadays kitchens are often combined with adjoining rooms..

Furniture lighting in the kitchen helps food preparation and creates a pleasant atmosphere for family meals or socializing with friends.

If you only place the lights in the center of the kitchen, then you will almost certainly be working in your own shade. Light is needed in every work area, and this requires additional lighting under cabinets and shelves.

There is no such thing as too much lighting when using a sharp knife or electric blender..

Kitchens also need to look and look clean, with no dark corners. In addition, people often want to at least visually separate the work area and the dining area in the kitchen. Thus, the cooking area can be darkened and “invisible” while you are eating..

If the kitchen has a high ceiling, furniture linear lights on the top of the cabinets, pointing upwards will reduce the need for ceiling lights and provide general background lighting.

Lighting inside glass cabinets is a good way to keep a room cozy and warm, but make sure the illuminated items in the cabinets look nice and inviting. Do-it-yourself backlighting.

Luminaires for the kitchen in Leroy merlin

The world’s largest trading company Leroy Merlin, in addition to building materials, offers the widest selection of recessed luminaires. The era of kitchen lighting brings to the market the newest and most efficient inventions that consume little energy and provide a lot of light..

Ceiling and wall lamps, designer and typical lamps in a modern kitchen are ideal for illuminating the places where they move in the kitchen, delivering food. You can choose with your own hands various types of lamps to illuminate work surfaces, shelves, walls and floors.

Wall lights will help to avoid darkening some areas of the kitchen

LED lights

Leroy Merlin LED ceiling and wall lights save energy and provide warm white light. These are innovative projects, they can make the life of humanity completely different. The key feature is their long lifespan without the need to change lamps..

Modern wall lamps in a spacious kitchen work according to the principle of “decorative functionality” In addition to the main task – to provide high-quality lighting of the kitchen working area, LED lamps can also play a decorative role

Choose from Leroy Merlin LED lamps, which provide bright, uniform illumination for the entire kitchen, and for cabinet, shelf or stove lighting. They meet the highest standards in terms of energy efficiency, design and ambience.

LED bulbs start to burn at full light output instantly and last for a very long time. Some versions of bulbs can even be made dimmable.

Leroy Merlin offers a wide range of LED lamps in various colors, light categories, shapes and light outputs to ensure optimal and uniform lighting of the ceiling..

Leroy merlin: halogen lamps

Lighting fixtures in this category meet all the requirements – excellent illumination of work surfaces, impressive illumination of decorative elements of the interior and imitation of natural light.

Halogen bulbs are dimmable so the brightness of the backlight can be adjusted to suit your mood.

They have almost 100% light output and provide high quality light due to their excellent color rendering. Also, halogen lights perfectly accentuate the details you need..

Halogen furniture spotlights are designed for functional illumination of the kitchen working area, top and interior lighting of cupboards.

Fluorescent lamps from Leroy merlin

Leroy merlin compact linear fluorescent lamps save energy up to 80% compared to conventional incandescent lamps. Therefore, their light is very effective and cost-effective, they can be inserted with your own hands without difficulty..

There are two special light colors that are used to create the correct lighting for the kitchen ceiling:

Warm comfortable light. Lamps with this light color are the first energy saving lamps with a color temperature of 2500K, producing a warm and cozy light similar to that of an incandescent lamp..
Cold white with a color temperature of 4000K, does not force the eyes to strain, therefore, without fatigue, focus on cooking for a long time.

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Era lamps for kitchen

A large number of lamps for illuminating a shelf, cabinet or tabletop is offered by a large Moscow company Era.

Ceiling pendant lights can be used to illuminate the entire space, or they can direct the light towards a specific object, for example, a shelf or cabinet.

Era chandeliers can shed light on any important item such as a shelf, a bowl of fruit or a dish that you are going to serve for dinner with your own hands. In any case, pendant or wall luminaires can serve as a general light source or be used as supplementary lighting..

Era wall lamps or chandeliers are used not only for kitchen lighting, they can serve as decorative elements in a given room. There are also mini chandeliers, but several are needed to illuminate the space. Era mini chandeliers are usually used in the kitchen or above the bar or central part of the kitchen, as well as in many other places..

To adjust the lighting, you can equip chandeliers or mini-chandeliers with a dimmer and use LED lamps.

Era’s flexible energy-saving LED strips can be installed directly on shelves or along their perimeter, in curved and strongly curved spaces. The lamps can be cut to size according to the needs of the user. Era LED strips can be with dimmers and multicolor diodes.

Modular led systems Era (video review)

Surface mounted furniture lamps for the kitchen

For most people, overhead furniture fixtures on cabinets and shelves are the best option. They provide a continuous, soft beam of light along the work surface. If you need a spacious place to work, then surface mounted furniture lamps are the best option for you.

Another option for cabinets is built-in or surface-mounted spotlights. These lamps provide a bright focused beam, they are installed by hand where they usually do the most delicate and important work..

In addition to lighting your countertops, your kitchen should have quality ceiling lights. Surface-mounted furniture lights in a compact kitchen are great for those who like to cook in softly lit environments, but when you cook complex meals with your own hands or use sharp knives, you need a bright light..

Surface-mounted furniture or wall lights may use small incandescent bulbs, but long fluorescent bulbs are generally the best option for the kitchen. Luminaires in this category spread light throughout the room, which is very important when you are preparing food.

Surface-mounted furniture fixtures are generally available in four versions:

Fluorescent thin lamps about 1 cm thick.They turn on almost without delay, do not make noise and have a good color temperature.
Washer lamps. Their popularity is due to the fact that they do not require complicated wiring, they can be connected even with batteries, you can easily do it yourself. Previously, they also used xenon lamps, but they are fire hazardous..
LED Bulbs – they may look the same as thin fluorescent lamps, but LED strips last even longer. In addition, there is a risk of choosing LED bulbs, the light of which may look a little cool. Some models require an external transformer which can be bulky.
LED strips. These fixtures are very thin, easy to install and will never be touched when working at the kitchen table. But they do not provide much light, so they can only be turned on in addition to the main overhead light..

Fluorescent lamps for the kitchen (video review)

Halogen lamps for kitchen

Built-in and surface-mounted luminaires for furniture can look like round washers-spotlights. They come in halogen or xenon lamps. Halogen bulbs burn very brightly and generate a significant amount of heat. Xenon bulbs generate less heat and are therefore preferred..

Halogen bulbs emit pure white light, significantly brighter than incandescent bulbs. This reduces eye strain and makes them ideal for kitchen lighting..

You can choose halogen lamps designed for different voltages:

220 volt lamps give too much heat and cannot be recommended as furniture lamps.
Low voltage halogen lamps (12 volts) gives a very crisp white light with excellent color rendering, under which glass and porcelain shine crystal.

Halogen bulbs are more powerful than standard incandescent bulbs and are more energy efficient

When replacing a burned out light bulb, precautions must be taken. You need to wait at least 15 minutes until the light bulb has completely cooled down. You need to unscrew the light bulb, of course, with gloves..

Lamp-rail for the kitchen (video review)

Modern ceiling lights, furniture or wall lights, linear or circular kitchen lighting fixtures come in a wide variety. Lamps in a modern kitchen solve different problems – creating general lighting, or bright lighting of the working area of kitchens, or dim lighting of the dining area when a meal is over and you just want to sit, smoke and watch TV. You can choose any options. Incandescent lamps are practically not used; instead, halogen lamps, LEDs or fluorescent lamps are used. Dimmers or touch panels are used as switches so that the illumination can be finely adjusted. Do-it-yourself wiring and installation of lamps.