Light plan - The basis

Light plan - The basis

THE BASIS OF A LIGHTING PLAN

Lighting can make or break the atmosphere in your home, just think of a restaurant that is too bright or a workplace that is too weakly lit. But in addition to the aesthetic, lighting also has a practical function. To realize the ideal lighting in your home, developing a lighting plan can be a solution. To develop a lighting plan, the basic principles and points of attention per room must first be known, our LED experts explain this to you in a series of blogs in which we devote the last article to developing a lighting plan. In this first blog article, we start with the 4 types of lighting that are used within the interior architecture.

4 TYPES OF LIGHTING

Light has various purposes and in the various, often multifunctional rooms, it is important that sufficient attention is paid to lighting. It is therefore important to distinguish between the different types of lighting, there are 4 in total:

General lighting

This is also called the basic lighting. The purpose of this type of lighting is to ensure that sufficient light enters the room so that the room is uniformly and diffusely lit. This is most similar to daylight, which provides more rest to the eyes, this light will cause as little shadowing as possible. With up lighters, lamps shine to the ceiling. The indirect light and the reflection on the ceiling makes the room more diffuse illuminated.

Work lighting

Also called functional lighting, this is directed light that is seen as an addition to the basic lighting. Think of a reading lamp next to your armchair or the spots above the kitchen countertop. This type of lighting is used at different times of the day and therefore it is practical when these lamps are dimmable. It is important that you cannot look into the (bright) light source and that there is no shadow effect on the work surface.

Accent lighting

This type of lighting is for highlighting an object or place and drawing attention to it in order to make colors stand out better, such as highlighting a painting or sculpture. The spotlights are one of the most used accent lighting fixtures. Spotlights can be built in, mounted or fixed to a rail, with spotlights on a rail the direction of the light beam can be manually adjusted.

Decorative lighting 

Better known as mood lighting. The aesthetics of the luminaire are paramount here. This type of lighting is no longer about illuminating the room but about the appearance of the lamp. Many of these lamps, therefore, have a lower light output and are seen as the eye catchers of the room. Decorative lighting also includes candles and fires.

Now that we have discussed the basic principles of lighting, we continue with lighting specified per room. Every room has its own purposes, so we look at the matching lighting for each room. The first room that we are going to treat is the living room.
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