Kitchen Lighting Advice & Latest Information
The kitchen is the most important and difficult room in the home to illuminate. Packed with cupboards, worktop surfaces and appliances, you really need to do your homework to get the right lighting results. We've put together a wide selection of content to help you choose the best kitchen lighting products for your home.
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The Best Places To Install Downlights In Your House
Downlights are now an ever popular addition to many homes, and with such versatility and variability as to where they can be placed it is easy to understand why. Down lighting can add gentle and sometimes shadow free lighting to any room and if you choose to use led fittings the savings on your energy bills can be quite considerable. -
Kitchen LED Strip Lights
This LED Strip Kit 30 LED Per Metre Single Colour 1/2 Metre kit is the easiest to install yet if you are a DIY kind of person. The installation is all plug and play and absolutely no wiring is required. The LED strips have lots of uses but I found them most suited for my under kitchen counters. Now, my kitchen has well controlled lighting that does not scream in my face unlike the previous options I had. -
How LED Lighting Was Used To Enhance A Kitchen
With my original downlighting setup in my kitchen, I had 16 50W GU10 halogen bulbs, which whilst I was happy with their lighting levels, I was becoming increasingly frustrated with having to keep replacing the bulbs that for no apparent reason kept blowing out! It felt like it was happening almost every month and It was at a rather dimly-lit dinner party that I was recommended by a family friend to switch to a low energy, longer lasting form of lighting, which I was told would save me on energy costs as well as not having to always replace my bulbs.