The living room is a multifunctional room. It is nice to spend time with friends, get together with the whole family for a large table, relax after a hard working day.
Create an appropriate comfort atmosphere will help proper lighting.
Creating a living room interior is important to avoid the following errors:
- Ignoring the planning stage of the arrangement of lighting devices. The number and location of the lamps, sockets and switches must be planned at the repair stage. Everything is very simple: take a sheet of paper in your hands and check where there will be some electrical appliances, furniture. This will help avoid the situation when the chandelier switch has to search for a wardrobe or chest.
The switch is placed from the door handle.
It is important to take into account the presence of the main source of light and points of local lighting. So you can achieve the difference between the area of the room to the functional zones. The main thing is not to overdo it. Two, the maximum of three light sources will be quite enough to create a bright, pleasant illumination for the eye.
- Ceiling chandelier is the only source of lighting. Whatever gorgeous chandelier is on the ceiling, it is not enough to create a uniform lighting indoors. Dark corners always remain, which visually relent the living space of the room, make it less cozy.
Choosing the lamp it is important to take into account not only the area, but also the geometry of the room. So for long, narrow guests appropriately the location of several lamps on the ceiling. Then the lighting will be uniform and the dark "dead" zones will remain.
Also, in addition to the ceiling lamp in the living room, it is necessary to think about the placement of local lamps: wall scaves, floor lamps or desktop lamps. Correctly selecting and placing local lighting, you can focus on separate zones of the living room, if necessary, create a pleasant atmosphere of relaxation, or vice versa to highlight the entire area of the room.
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Choosing scaven on the walls, remember them can not be mounted opposite the TV. The bright light is reflected in the screen, which causes not very pleasant emotions from holidaymakers in the room.
Winners of rooms with high ceilings should be considered a variant of multi-level ceilings, where in a pair with a single ceiling chandelier, there is a line of point lamps.
- Buying a low-power lamp "cold" glow. It is impossible to create a comfortable, relaxing heat atmosphere and sweeping in the room illuminated by the lamps of the "cold" glow. Similar luminaires of bright white light are appropriate for the production premises or public areas, rather than to create a cozy interior of the living room.
Also with special attention should be taken to the choice of light bulb.
For normal lighting 1 sq.m. Square is enough lamp with a capacity of 10 W.
As practice shows the optimal option for the living room - incandescent lamps 75-100 W or energy-saving lamps of warm glow consumes 15-20 W (less consumption, but similar to the right incandescent lamp). It is also appropriate in the living room, as an additional light source will be the LED backlight. A variety of shades of the glow helps to create the necessary atmosphere in the room.
For desktop lamps, lamps or scaves enough light bulbs with a capacity of 40-60 W.
Observing simple guidelines for the choice and location of light sources, you can create an ideal comfort atmosphere and a living room comfort.
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