How to choose the right ceiling lamp for your home

You may think choosing ceiling lights for your home is easy, but there are many occasions when a poor choice of lamp results in wasted investment.

Before choosing ceiling lights for your home you should ask the following questions:

– In which room will I install the ceiling light?

How much light do I need?

– What environment do I want to have?

What room are we going to light and what are its characteristics?

The most important thing when choosing a ceiling lamp is:

– In what room are we going to install it.

– What are the features of the room?

Therefore, the first thing we look at before buying a lamp is its design, and we do not appreciate that the design of the ceiling lamp largely adjusts the way it should illuminate the environment in which it is to be installed.

For this reason, the first thing is to take into account the room that we are going to light and the type of lighting we want.

For example:

Living room with two environments and two light points

“I have to light a living room made up of a dining area and a common space (armchair and TV), what is ideal?”

The first thing we do when we want to light up a place is to turn on the lamps, emphasizing their virtues and masking their possible defects. Therefore, the ideal would be to visually separate the areas and try to create contrasting spaces.

How do we get it?

One of the most effective ways is to install a pendant lamp above the dining table and a recessed ceiling lamp or ceiling lamp in the TV area.

In this way, we create two different environments depending on the use we are going to give them, in addition, in the armchair area we will have general lighting that will help create spacious spaces and in the dining room table something more focused.

How much light should a ceiling lamp give off?

“Lumens” That word was unknown until recently to almost everyone and now we do nothing but see it in everything related to lamps, and what does it mean? Well, lumens is the amount of light that it emits.

Before we thought that the light that a lamp gives depends on the watts of its bulbs, but with the arrival of the LED it has changed radically and we have to know the appropriate number of lumens for each case.

It should also be borne in mind that many LED ceiling lights currently do not contain spot lights as we have traditionally understood them, but instead integrate LED light within their housing (what we usually call embedded LEDs).

For this reason, many descriptions of LED ceiling lights indicate how many lumens they are.

“For a 30-watt bulb does not mean that it ‘gives more light’ than a 20-watt bulb. How do we know which gives off more light? Well, with lumens, the more lumens, the more light »

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What atmosphere do you want to create with a ceiling lamp?

If we want a quiet and pleasant environment, as in the case of bedrooms, the recommended lighting color is between 2700-3000 Kelvin, so that we have a clear reference, which is the color enjoyed by traditional incandescent lamps.

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In bathrooms and kitchens, however, we can perfectly install the 4000-4500K light color, the reason being that they are “work areas” where we carry out jobs that require special attention on our part.

Basically, apart from the design, these three characteristics are the most important to consider when we choose ceiling lights.

In short, it adapts to the room and the area that we are going to light, having the right lighting for the activity we are going to do and achieving the desired environment.