Decoration Materials-Lighting Fixtures Purchase Guide

The types of lamps commonly used in homes generally include chandeliers, wall lamps, ceiling lamps, floor lamps, table lamps, recessed ceiling lamps and so on. Choose lamps according to your own artistic taste and room conditions. The lamp used for overall lighting is called the main lamp. Local lighting lamps are generally called auxiliary lamps. Nowadays, lights are not only to meet the needs of people’s daily life, but also an important means to beautify the room and adjust the atmosphere.

 

How to Choose Lamps for Home Decoration

When decorating, there are fewer lights in the house, and the house will appear monotonous and uninteresting. Too many lights can also become a problem. Especially when the hot summer comes, the heat emitted by the lamps will increase the indoor temperature, making people feel irritable. This requires an overall understanding of the decoration of various parts of the home before the decoration.

Purchase on Demand

Lighting is the finishing touch to the decoration of a new home, so you must not be sloppy when choosing. Generally speaking, it is advisable to choose a solemn and bright chandelier or ceiling lamp for the living room. If the room is taller, it is advisable to use an incandescent chandelier or a larger circular chandelier, which can make the living room look transparent. However, it is not advisable to use a chandelier with all downward light distribution, and the upper space should also have a certain brightness to reduce the difference in brightness between the upper and lower spaces. If the room is low, ceiling lamps and floor lamps can be used, so that the living room looks bright and generous, with a sense of the times.

The shape and color of the lamps should be coordinated with the furnishings of the living room.

Study and Bedroom Lighting

The study lighting should be bright and soft as the principle, and it is more appropriate to choose a desk lamp with a white LED bulb. The desk lamp of the writing desk should be adapted to the nature of work and the needs of study. It is advisable to choose a direct-lit desk lamp with a reflector and a lower opening, that is, a work desk lamp or a writing desk lamp. The light source of the desk lamp is LED as the best. A small spotlight can be installed in the bookcase. This kind of lighting not only helps distinguish book titles, but also maintains the temperature and prevents books from damp and rot.

 

There should be several kinds of lamps in the bedroom, such as ceiling lamps, table lamps, floor lamps, bedside lamps, etc., which should be adjusted and mixed at will to create a warm and atmosphere. Wall lamps and floor lamps can be used to replace the ceiling lamps in the center of the room. The wall lamp should use the diffuser material lampshade with low surface brightness, so that the light in the bedroom can appear soft, which is conducive to sleep. It is also possible to install a hanging main lamp at an appropriate position in the room, and install a wall lamp on the bedside, and these lamps must be controlled separately.

Restaurant and Kitchen Lighting

The dining table in the restaurant requires horizontal illuminance, so it is advisable to use lamps that illuminate strongly downwards or pull-down lamps, so that the height of the pull-down is 600 mm to 700 mm above the table. The position of the lamp is generally directly above the dining table. The lampshade should be made of glass, plastic or metal with a clean appearance, so that it can be scrubbed at any time. Floor lamps can also be used for lighting, and warm-colored wall lamps can also be appropriately configured on the nearby walls, which will make the atmosphere when banqueting guests more warm and increase appetite.

Ceiling lights are generally used in kitchens, bathrooms and aisles. Because the brightness of the lighting in these places is not large, and the water vapor is large, and there is a lot of dust, it is easy to clean with a ceiling lamp, and it is helpful to protect the bulb. The lamp in the kitchen should be installed in a place where steam and smoke can be avoided. It is suitable to use glass or enamel lampshade, which is easy to scrub and is corrosion-resistant. The toilet should use bright and soft lamps, and the lamps should be moisture-proof and not easy to rust.

Suggestions for Choosing Lights

In the process of choosing lamps, we must understand these selection premises.

1. The first is safety. When choosing a lamp, you should not blindly be greedy for cheap, but first look at its quality, and check whether the warranty and certificate are complete. Sometimes the most expensive is not necessarily the best, but too cheap must be bad. Many cheap lamps are inferior in quality, and there are often endless hidden dangers. Once a fire broke out, the consequences would be disastrous.
2. Pay attention to the consistency of style in the selection of lighting. The color, shape, and style of lamps must be commensurate with the style of interior decoration and furniture, and echo each other. The flashy lighting is not just icing on the cake, but superfluous. In the choice of lamp color, in addition to matching with the indoor color tone, of course, it can also be selected according to personal preference. Especially the color of the lampshade has a great effect on the atmosphere. The size, type and number of lamps should be coordinated with the room space size, total area, indoor height and other conditions.
3. As the styles of lamps are emerging in endlessly now, before buying lighting, you’d better understand the development trend of modern lighting, so as to avoid the bad luck of the newly bought lighting being eliminated. And, from the perspective of power saving, we recommend installing the latest generation of LED lights.
4. Check the goods carefully when buying lights. The lighting is mainly made of glass, which is fragile. After long-distance transportation, it will inevitably be scratched or damaged. As the lighting is generally hung in prominent places in the home, even minor damage will affect the use effect.
5. Finally, lighting expenditure generally accounts for about 10% of the entire decoration expenditure. Therefore, which grade of lighting to buy should be decided according to one’s own economic situation, and do according to one’s ability.

Prevent Light Pollution

Some families like to install lights of various colors and styles in the room during decoration. As everyone knows, the colorful lights not only do great harm to people’s eyesight, but also interfere with the functions of the higher nerves of the central brain.

Especially in the study room, the light with stable brightness must be used. Compared with natural light, the light emitted by ordinary light bulbs is obviously reddish in color, which reduces the resolving power of human eyes. So if you want to see the font on the book, you must keep your eyes very close. Although the light emitted by ordinary fluorescent lamps is white, because it is directly lit by alternating current of 50 Hz, the brightness of fluorescent lamps will constantly change. This is the stroboscopic phenomenon of fluorescent lamps. If you study under the flashing fluorescent lamp for a long time, your eyes will get tired.

Now there is a new type of eye protection lamp, which is a non-flicker LED lamp developed from the lighting source of color liquid crystal display. It can emit white light with stable brightness, no flicker, and very similar to natural light. It meets the requirements of primary and middle school students to read under the lamp for a long time and is an ideal light source.

The Choice of Lamp and Lampshade

When you buy lamps and lampshades, ask yourself first: Do you want a floor lamp or a table lamp, or both?

When choosing a table lamp, the base and the lampshade must not only be commensurate, but also coordinate with the other furniture in the room. The height of the lampshade should be on the same level as your eyes when you sit down, and the bulb should not be exposed.

The lighting of the floor lamp is generally adjustable, and it occupies a small area.

What Kind of Lampshade Do You Need?

The lampshade affects the appearance of the lamp. When choosing a lampshade, never choose one that makes the lamp look short.

The lampshade has many shapes, colors, textures and sizes. A transparent lampshade can add maximum brightness to the room. Opaque ones will focus the light downwards, making it easy to use at work.

Where to Put the Lights?

To make the room more interesting, you can change the height of the lights in the room, and add the depth and fun of the colors by setting different areas between the lights and the lampshades.

If you want to reduce energy consumption, turn off the other lights in your house and turn on only the ones you need for work. Task lighting is used for reading, writing, cooking and cleaning. Generally, a light bulb above 60 watts is required, which is the most effective. You can adjust the light level until your eyes feel comfortable.

Its brightness should be three to four times that of the surrounding light to relieve eye fatigue.

Concentrate the light on the main point of use in each room.

Safety Tips: Don’t use bulbs with too high wattage unless it is a bulb that is attached to the fixture.