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.

  1. The Difference between Task and Ambient Lighting

    The Difference between Task and Ambient Lighting
    When deciding on lighting for your home, there are many factors to take into consideration. If you're choosing lights for the interior of your house, deciding where to use task lighting and where to use ambient lighting is of vital importance.
  2. What Is The Best Lighting For Your Kitchen?

    What Is The Best Lighting For Your Kitchen?
    The kitchen serves many functions. When it comes to preparing food, eating or entertaining the kitchen is the one room in the house where we spend a lot of our time. The best kind of kitchen lighting is one where not only can we see clearly, it also means that we can work safely.
  3. The Best Places To Install Downlights In Your House

    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.
  4. Make Your Kitchen Transcendent with LED

    Make Your Kitchen Transcendent with LED
    The kitchen is the most important room in your house it is potentially the most valuable room and LED light strips can make your kitchen look unique and less insipid than your standard kitchen.
  5. Replacing Burnt Out Downlights For LED Downlights

    Replacing Burnt Out Downlights For LED Downlights
    I replaced existing GU50 spotlights which had burnt as the surrounding insulation caused existing units to overheat and pose a fire risk.
  6. Kitchen LED Strip Lights

    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.
  7. How LED Lighting Was Used To Enhance A Kitchen

    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.
  8. Which Beam Angle? & The 4 Key Factors

    Which Beam Angle? & The 4 Key Factors
    Ultimately, your main aim in choosing the right beam angle is to get the best uniformity and to install the fewest downlights as possible.
  9. 5 Ways You Can Use Kitchen Lighting To Create a Modern Look

    5 Ways You Can Use Kitchen Lighting To Create a Modern Look
    Do you like to keep your house design up-to-date, and are you on the lookout for new forms of kitchen lighting? Well, here are 5 ways you can use lighting to create a modern look in your kitchen...
  10. How to Light Your Home Room by Room

    How to Light Your Home Room by Room
    When it comes to lighting our homes, there are several considerations we need to make How to Light Your Home depending on which room we are lighting, and each room has different lighting needs.
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