How To Match The Lighting In The Living Room? What Should I Look For In A Light Fixture?

      Generally speaking the living room, as a public space, is the most dominant space in the house. Therefore, living room lighting is not only required to match and harmonise with other furniture, but also has an impact on creating a good home atmosphere and meeting environment. The living room is generally larger, the hall is also relatively high, so the living room suitable for multi-headed chandeliers, and can be appropriate with a small control of the wall lamp for auxiliary lighting; for the living room is slightly smaller, shorter, you can choose ceiling lights.

How to match living room lighting

      1, it depends on your overall design style, luxury and noble style, you can choose crystal lamps, modern minimalist style, ceiling lamps are very good, rustic romantic style, you can choose to have hollow and floral design lamps.

      2, to choose a good reputation of online shops, currently online Opal, Han source, Aoduo are not bad;.
Third, to look at the long-term development, the living room is the first station of the external display, the lamps and lanterns look good not only in appearance, cleanliness is also important. Relatively speaking, crystal lights are more cumbersome and time-consuming to take care of, ceiling lights are more simple and more convenient to take care of.

A, Chandelier decorative lighting 

      This is the lighting method centred on large chandeliers. As chandeliers are very striking, the style of the chandelier directly influences the style of the entire living room. With metal decoration, glass decorative pieces of European style chandeliers, magnificent and exquisite, opulent; wooden Chinese palace lamps and Japanese Japanese lamps and lanterns, antique, pure and elegant, rich in national atmosphere; with different colours of glass cover combined chandeliers, often pure white inner cover, outer cover sky blue, snow blue, dark green or light red, modelled as a combination of round, oval, hyperbolic, parabolic and straight lines, beautiful and generous, full of The beaded lamps and lanterns made of thousands of ground glass beads (balls and pieces) can reflect colourful light and give people an exciting, dazzling and gorgeous feeling; and the chandeliers made of soft cloth and silk with lampshades are clear and pleasant, soft and warm. The style of the chandelier should be fully integrated in the overall arrangement of the living room, so that the main tone of the living room atmosphere is more prominent. The size of the diameter of the chandelier bracket and the number of light heads are related to the size of the living room. This can be determined by referring to the standard number of options given in Table 3. With the chandelier hanging over people's heads, the weight of the hooks is very important and according to national standards, the hooks must be able to hang up to 4 times the weight of the chandelier in order to be considered safe. Therefore, when decorating a living room, the load-bearing capacity of the chandelier must be checked and tested.

B, Ceiling light decorative lighting 

      This type of lighting is suitable for living rooms with low heights or multi-purpose rooms with a parlour function. Ceiling lamps can be divided into general (non-embedded, also known as art modelling ceiling lamps), embedded and semi-embedded 3 kinds according to their installation location, and their lighting methods are also divided into 3 kinds accordingly.

      1, artistic modelling ceiling lighting ceiling lamp shades and trays in a thousand different ways, the weather. In recent years, it is the characteristics of the chandelier fully expressed in the ceiling lamp, the emergence of a novel suction chandelier, so that the lower level of the living room can also create a glorious atmosphere. The installation of suction chandeliers should start from the size of the living room area. The area of 10 square metres or less, declared the use of a single lamp shade suction chandelier, more than 10 square metres can be used in a multi-shade combination of ceiling lights or multi-flower decorative suction chandelier. The ceiling light chosen must have translucent bright sides to avoid the ceiling being too dark. However, it should also be noted that the bright side edges must not be fully transparent either, otherwise it will spoil the overall lighting effect.

      2, recessed ceiling lighting for living rooms with suspended flat ceilings. Embedded ceiling light outlet has a square, round, oval, diamond-shaped and so on, according to the design intention, cloth into a variety of patterns, there are cross-control light position and the number of lights, can create a new lighting mood, sometimes bright, sometimes romantic, sometimes jumping cheerful, sometimes leisurely and pleasant. Especially the uneven hazy lighting, will make people think about.

      3, semi-recessed ceiling lights lighting has the characteristics of both recessed ceiling lights and art-shaped ceiling lights, but the advantages are not as obvious as the above two types of ceiling lights. At present, there are not many applications in home lighting, can be used as a supplement to recessed lighting.

C, Track lighting 

      This is the typical modern genre of lighting without a main light and without a fixed pattern, which creates an interior lighting atmosphere in a variable way. By installing a track system on the ceiling or wall of the living room, the mini spotlights can be illuminated at different angles on their own. When combined, the light can be transformed into fantastic patterns. The combination of small spotlights can be used to create a variety of effects, as the angle can be changed freely.

D, light eaves art lighting 

      Light eaves lighting is a kind of concealed lighting. It combines lighting and architectural structure closely, reflecting the charm of architectural art lighting, and has been widely used in living room lighting. Its main forms are of two kinds.

      1, is the use of opaque cornices equal to the wall to cover the light source, illuminating the wall and giving dramatic light effects to the siding, drapery and wall decorations.

      2, is to turn the cornice upwards so that the light is reflected down through the ceiling, giving the canopy a floating effect and creating a hazy feel, creating a more enchanting atmosphere. Light eaves lighting must be matched with other methods. If it is combined with chandeliers, wall lights or overhead lights, the effect is all the better. As the light eaves have a dual role of lighting and decoration, the artistic effect and illumination should be taken into account and the eaves should not be too close to the ceiling. In addition, the structure of the light eaves should be able to cover the direct light of the lamp and the part of the wall that is close to the light source. In order to achieve a more even illumination of the wall and the ceiling, the light should be placed a certain distance away from the wall. If the light in the cornice has a reflector, the best results are obtained when the angle between the axis of the reflector and the horizontal line is about 20 degrees. Living room lighting in addition to the above four main ways, but also available luminous ceiling, grille ceiling and light wall art lighting and other ways to arrange. The luminous ceiling is a translucent warm-emitting material ceiling and the building structure between the lights. It provides an atmosphere that simulates daylight illumination. If the light is installed between the ceiling of translucent material and the building structure. It provides an atmosphere that simulates daylight illumination. If patterns or colours are painted on the translucent material, a variety of wonderful sensations are created and the atmosphere of the living room will vary depending on the pattern and colour. If recessed ceiling lights are installed around the perimeter of the illuminated canopy, the effect is even more aesthetically pleasing. Grille canopy is made of grille instead of luminous canopy to stop the transparent warm shooting material. The grille is generally assembled from metal sheets or plastic sheets, and its grid can be square, rectangular, spacer-shaped, hexagonal, hollow circle, elliptical table, parabolic shape, the use of grille hole geometry changes and grille height staggered, plus the grille colour and texture, can achieve a rich decorative effect and light effect.

      Light wall lighting is installed between the light-transmitting wall panels and the building structure, for the near view sinking work, it is a good luminous surface, for the whole living room, and a pleasing background. Such as in the light-transmitting surface paste pattern pattern, in the interior with coloured lights, can change the colourful lighting atmosphere.

      Living room lighting in the use of the above-mentioned general lighting methods at the same time, should also consider auxiliary lighting and local lighting methods. Usually wall lamps and standing lamps are used as auxiliary lighting to set off the main lighting style in the living room; spotlights are used to cast light on the pictures and artwork in the living room to show the charm of art.

What should be noted in the selection of lamps and lanterns

      1, the choice of lamps and lanterns should first consider the through-way, different uses, need different lights. Whole house lighting with chandeliers or ceiling lamps, sofa, bedside, desk, dining table, stairs and other local lighting with floor lamps, table lamps, wall lamps, floor lamps. Background wall, decorative lighting with spotlights, barrel lights, track lights.

      2, the choice of lamps and lanterns also according to the use of light sources to consider, common light sources are incandescent, fluorescent lamps, energy-saving lamps (formal name: self-correcting fluorescent lamps), quartz spotlights, etc., lights individual lamps with iodine tungsten lamps. The bedroom should be used with a softer light source, incandescent or energy-saving lamps are more appropriate; study, children's room, kitchen need brightness, fluorescent lamps should be the first choice, living room, balcony with whatever can be. Quartz spotlights are point light sources, mainly used for local lighting, but can also be combined to do scattered light sources, but I think the quartz spotlights are more harsh light, the overall lighting with it is not ideal.

      3, the choice of lamps and lanterns should also consider the size of lamps and lanterns and room area and height adaptation, I personally think that the following 20 square meters of bedroom, study, the diameter of the lamp should not be greater than 50 centimeters; more than 30 square meters of living room, the diameter of the lamp should not be greater than 80 centimeters; kitchen, bathroom lights 20 to 30 centimeters can be. Chandeliers look good, imposing, but now the room is generally shorter, the lamp is too high appears depressing, generally 2. 6-2. 7 m high room, the height of the lamp should not exceed 40 cm is good.

      4, energy saving is also the choice of lamps and lanterns should be considered an important issue. Common lights, fluorescent lamps undoubtedly the highest light efficiency, but the general inductor rectifier fluorescent lamps have stroboscopic problems, with electronic transformers fluorescent lamps can solve this problem, but the price to be quite expensive. JS says that the brightness of energy saving lamps is 6 times that of incandescent lamps of the same wattage, which I have observed with my naked eye is not so evil, but two or three times. It seems that there are two kinds of energy saving lamps, one ordinary one, which is cheap but not as bright, and one trichromatic one, which is expensive but good in brightness; besides, the torch tube energy saving lamps are brighter than the U-tube ones. Incandescent and quartz lamps are more power-efficient, but some places still use them reasonably, I think we can divide the lights at home into commonly used, and occasionally used, commonly used with power-saving lamps, occasionally open a little fee does not matter.

      5, the colour of the lamps and lanterns can be their own choice, but I personally do not like the colorful lights at home, I think it is not tasteful, while the colored light is also a kind of torture to the visual nerve, especially the children's room do not engage in colored lights, fluorescent light in the spectrum and the sun's light is the closest, the eyes are most easily adapted.

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