Lighting Design Tips Cheltenham

Like day and night, lighting design can make all the difference to a room. Here are some pointers for good lighting design.

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Clapps Of Cheltenham
01242 523552
26-28 Bath Street
Grimsby
DMXpressions
01452 533 233
47 Heathville Road
Gloucester
M B Owen Ltd
01452 520768
14 Albion St
Oldham
GRP Electrical
01452 307413
144 Finlay Road
Maidstone
R J Stanton Electrical
01452 501202
80 Bloomfield Rd
Maidstone
Southern Electric Contracting Ltd
01452 725070
Naas Lane Quedgeley
Gloucester
Continental Ltd.
01452-855222
Unit C2
Cheltenham
Mark Holland Construction Ltd.
0124-225-0058
Churchill Industrial Estate
Cheltenham
Leslie Cobb
11 Greenway
Cheltenham
Russell Wiltshire
01242-524958
100 Cromwell Road
Cheltenham


Like day and night, lighting design can make all the difference to a room. It doesn't matter how much clients spend on fixtures, without proper lighting that takes into account the room's use and the mood the client wants to create, the final look will not be as beautiful or functional as it could have been. Here are some pointers for good lighting design.

  • Low-voltage undercounter lighting is one of the best investments to make in a kitchen. Lighting this usually dark area gives the space a nice warm glow. Mounted behind the front cabinet reveal, light is cast down and back, playing up a beautiful backsplash.
  • If you have pendant fixtures hanging over an island, viewers perceive the island and the fixtures above it as a wall plane dividing the kitchen into two galleys. The beautiful pendant fixtures may, in fact, detract from your remodeling investment. To make the kitchen feel larger, use recessed lights over the island or peninsula. To define a space, such as a breakfast nook between kitchen and family room, use pendants.
  • When a kitchen is lit from the middle of the room, viewers often perceive the cabinets as a big wooden rectangle, becoming one-dimensional and losing depth of detail. Carefully placing a recessed light 12 inches from the center of a wall cabinet will cause light to cone down over the cabinet, creating a focal point. The viewer now sees vignettes of top and matching bottom cabinets — giving the look of custom furniture.
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