Lighting Methods and Lamp Types in Different Places

Clarify Lighting Needs

The lighting arrangement and arrangement can only be carried out if you can live the lifestyle you need. Therefore, first you need to develop a home lighting plan to meet your family and your needs.

 

When you plan the lighting, you need to analyze the type of activity in each room, the atmosphere you want to create (light and dark, light and shadow, modern and traditional, etc.), and the decorative elements you want to emphasize. Remember, in a dark room, light will be absorbed and also wasted. But for a light-toned room, the light is reflected and used.

In addition, I want to emphasize that if there are multiple activities in a room (for example, a room like the living room), multiple lighting methods must be set to meet different lighting.

 

There are three basic lighting methods in our home lighting: general lighting, task lighting and accent lighting. A good lighting layout will use these three methods according to functionality and style.

Three Common Ways of Lighting

The first way: general lighting

General lighting provides overall lighting to an area. It is the environmental lighting that our designers often mention. General lighting provides a comfortable brightness, ensures the safety of walking, and ensures that we can see objects clearly. What lamp should I use? Don’t worry, we can use decorative lanterns, wall lamps, recessed lamps, track lamps, and even the lamps we use outdoors. The general lighting method is the most basic of our lighting layout.

The second lighting method: task lighting

Task lighting is to help us complete special tasks, such as reading on the desk in the study room, washing clothes in the laundry room, cooking in the closet, entertainment and playing video games. We can use recessed lamps, track lamps, ceiling lamps, and mobile lamps. In addition, when you use these lamps, you must pay attention to avoid glare and shadows, and they must be bright enough to avoid visual fatigue.

 

The third common lighting method: accent lighting

Accent lighting can add a dramatic effect to the room and create excitement. As an element used in decoration, we can use it to illuminate paintings, sculptures, and other prizes, and it can also emphasize the material of walls or fabrics (such as curtain cloth). It can also be used for outdoor small scene lighting.

 

In the accent lighting method, the required illuminance at the center point is three times that of the surrounding environment of the area. We can use track lamps, recessed lamps or wall lamps to meet these requirements.

The Form of Common Lamps in Home Lighting

Once we know what we need to illuminate, the next step is to choose what method or lamp to use for illumination. Every city has a lighting market, where there are all kinds of lamps and lanterns of various sizes. You can use these lamps to complete the general lighting, task lighting, and accent lighting that we need.

Lamp type one:

Hall or lobby lighting (you will see it in the villa)

This kind of lamps can create a suitable atmosphere. It uses general lighting to welcome guests and ensure that they can safely enter other areas of the house. We can use ceiling lamps, hanging lamps, etc. to be installed in walkways, corridors and entrances.

Lamp Type Two: Flower Lantern

The style of the lantern is just as its name, and there are so many tricks. Entering the topic, the lantern is a kind of lamp that can increase the brilliance. It is very suitable for use in restaurants and other areas, and can provide general lighting for our dining, entertainment and other activities. They are sometimes used in bedrooms, halls, living rooms, and sometimes placed on top of the piano table, which is a very interesting way of lighting.

Some styles of lanterns use a combination of downward lighting lamps. As a family activity, tabletop game to provide task lighting, it can also be used for the accent lighting of desktop decorations.

The light sources used in the lanterns are incandescent lamps and halogen tungsten lamps.

It is worth mentioning that the above two light sources can be easily dimmed, so just add a dimming controller to control the light intensity to meet the needs of both psychological and activity.

Lamp Type Three: Chandelier

This kind of lamp is similar to the lantern type mentioned above, but it has a smaller shape.

The chandelier provides task lighting and general lighting. Ring or cone-shaped components are used to prevent glare. They are usually used for hanging installation, placed on the dining table, game table, cabinet counter or other occasions. Placing them at the end of the table, and using a table lamp for supplemental lighting is also an interesting effect. Similarly, they can also use dimming controllers, allowing us to use lights more flexibly to meet demand.

Lamp type four: ceiling lamp

Ceiling lights are used for general lighting. They are used in the halls, lobbies, bedrooms, cabinets, bathrooms, laundry rooms, recreation rooms and other rooms with higher usage rates. They use four types of light sources: incandescent lamps, fluorescent lamps, energy-saving lamps, and the latest LED lamps.

 

Lamp Type Five: Wall Lamp

This kind of luminaire is usually used for supplementary general lighting, task lighting and accent lighting. It is usually used as a supporting role for restaurant lanterns, and can also be used to illuminate aisles, bedrooms, and living rooms. In addition, we will also see the existence of this kind of lamp in the mirror of the bathroom vanity (called the mirror lamp). It turns out that it is also a form of wall lamp. The light sources they use include incandescent lamps, tungsten halogen lamps, energy-saving lamps and LED lamps.

 

Lamp type six: bathroom or makeup lamp

What this kind of luminaire provides is task lighting, which is used as a supplementary lighting for the general lighting of the ceiling lamp. You can also see this kind of lamps in the theater, or in the dressing room of a place where you often pass by when you go home to take wedding dresses.

Generally, spherical incandescent bulbs are used for ring-shaped arrangement along the glass, which provides excellent lighting for makeup and shaving with excellent color rendering.

Lamp type seven: mobile lamps

Mobile luminaires can provide general lighting, task lighting and accent lighting. We can easily move it to where we need it. Table lamps, floor lamps, warehouses and cellars, etc.

These various mobile lamps can be used to decorate my living environment. Don’t ignore its importance when designing.

In addition, there are some small mobile lamps, such as teacup lamps, flip lamps, adjustable mobile lamps, mini reflective spotlights, table lamps, piano lamps, which can meet our needs for tasks and accent lighting. The light sources they need include incandescent lamps, energy-saving tubes and LED lamps.

 

Lamp type eight: track lamps

Track lighting can provide the above three lighting methods instead of just accent lighting.

Through the flexible device of the rail, we can move, swing, place and separately adjust the aiming point of a light fixture along the rail to illuminate the object we want. It can also meet the changes of the scene.

If possible, you can also install lanterns and chandeliers on the rails to design lighting scenes. Rail lights are divided into two types: normal voltage and low voltage. The available light sources are incandescent lamps, energy-saving lamps and LED lamps.

Lamp type nine: recessed lamps

Recessed luminaires are a kind of higher utilization rate in our decoration design. It can flexibly meet our design needs. To embed it in the ceiling and install it, just leave the light outlet and the decorative thin edges of these lamps and lanterns.

 

Common recessed lamps include grille lamp panels, downlights, and ceiling spotlights. In addition to the direction of lighting, in addition to the downward lighting we generally use, there are two types of wall-washing lighting and adjustable accent lighting. They are also divided into low pressure and high pressure. The light source options include incandescent lamps, energy-saving lamps and LED lamps.

 

Lamp Type Ten: In-cabinet lamps

This kind of luminaire is only used for task and accent lighting. This method can be used in our kitchen, specifically, in the cabinet. Similarly, we can also put it in the prize cabinet to show the prizes (everyone who has watched football, those clubs have it). It can also be used in wine cabinets. They can be used in the workplace or the desired place, the key is that we must first know what to light.

Such lamps include T4 and T5 slender fluorescent tubes, energy-saving tubes, mini track lights, and low-voltage mini LED lights.