Lighting in the living room and hallway: tips
How to choose the right lamp for the living room and hallway – advice from the magazine “Home”.
So that the mezzanine and the country house do not turn over time into points of reception and storage of unnecessary things, when choosing and buying lamps, you need to start not only from the general style of the interior. No less important are the rules for organizing the lighting of a particular residential area.
Light in the hallway
Lighting in the living room
Let’s start our movement through the virtual apartment from the hallway. Usually, it performs two functions at once: it meets guests with dignity and, as far as possible, contributes to the collection of the owners to leave the house. Windows are often absent here, which means that natural light is a rarity. General recommendations are as follows.
It is desirable that the illumination of the hallway be higher than in the entrance, but not brighter than in living rooms. Thanks to this, the atmosphere in the house will become more hospitable, and the contrast between the semi-dark hallway and light rooms will not impede orientation in space. If there is a path to the bathroom or toilet through the hallway, it is advisable to provide a standby night light. Finally, you will definitely need accent lighting for, say, a mirror or a built-in wardrobe. This simple measure will significantly reduce the time for morning preparations.
And some more useful tips. Diffused lighting is considered optimal for hallways with low ceilings. It can be obtained by directing the plafonds of the wall lamps upwards. The light will bounce off the ceiling and the walls will appear taller. If the ceiling height, on the contrary, is excessive or the hallway is too elongated in length, proceed as follows. The light from wall or ceiling lamps is directed onto the walls, so that the ceiling remains in the shade and visually lowers.
- Light in the living room
This room has even more functions: friendly conversations are conducted here, they watch TV, read, sometimes, if the square permits, they have lunch or dinner. In other words, the living room combines several private areas. And each of them needs special lighting. If the area of the room does not exceed 25 m2, the general orientation will be provided by a ceiling source of diffused light. If the living room is larger, you can use a composition of several lamps located around the perimeter or across the entire ceiling area. When turned on at the same time, they cover the entire room, separately – they focus on private areas. The communication area is organized with the help of floor lamps installed behind the armchairs, the reading area – using a table lamp or also a floor lamp. It’s good if the latter has two light sources. Then one of them is directed upward so that it creates general lighting, and the other is directed directly onto the armchair or part of the sofa. Watching TV programs and feature films is more comfortable if you place the TV on a lighter background. There are several tricks for this. Here are just two of them: a backlit niche or a lamp located above the TV.