Transform Your Kitchen with Kitchen Lighting

Kitchen light fixtures can transform your kitchen. There is a wide choice available and with some careful planning you can create just the right atmosphere for your kitchen. You will first need to look at the size of your kitchen, your color scheme, your cabinet finish and your flooring. Then you will need to decide what type of look you are going for: contemporary, rustic or industrialized to name just a few. Then decide what areas you want to light. You may be updating a few areas or you may want to completely redo your kitchen or perhaps you are purchasing a new home and planning a whole new kitchen. Specific areas you may want to think about are: the sink area, an island, under the cabinets, the range or cook top, a breakfast nook, the kitchen counters, a work area or a special piece (like artwork) or area in the kitchen that you wish to highlight and draw attention to. Kitchen light fixtures can be as intricate or as simple as your taste. Many people who are updating wish to go with energy efficient lighting. If that is the case, you may want to look at compact fluorescent lights, LEDs or halogen bulbs. Compact fluorescent lights are very affordable and easily available and they last long, but there is a negative. They do contain mercury and you will need to dispose of them properly. LED lighting gives you a multitude of options. There are no harmful gases and they last a long time. Halogen bulbs are very efficient and they last three times longer than regular bulbs. More and more manufacturers are producing their kitchen light fixtures so that they are compatible with more energy efficient lighting. Many of the pendant fixtures have the new LED lighting and this type of fixture looks very attractive over the sink or over an island. A pendant light fixture is suspended from the ceiling by a rod or a chain. Other kitchen light fixtures include ceiling lights, track lighting, under-cabinet lights, pot racks and recessed lighting. Lighting for your kitchen can be categorized into task, ambient, accent and decorative and by using a balance of the different types of lighting you will able to achieve the optimum effect. Task kitchen light fixtures are used in areas of high activity; for example, if you have a workstation where you pay bills or where the kids do their homework. Pendant lights work great here as well as over the sink. Accent lighting is nice for areas that you wish to draw attention to like a tile backsplash or an intricate piece of pottery in your kitchen. Ambient lighting is used to fill in shadows so you can navigate through the room without being overpowered by the brilliance of a bright light. Decorative lighting is a little bit of all of the other three types of kitchen light fixtures as you will want all your kitchen lighting to be attractive and compliment your décor. By placing your kitchen light fixtures in an area where they will make the most difference you will easily be able to define the personality of your kitchen. Looking for a wide range of high-quality lighting products such as kitchen ligting, battens & linear, downlights, exterior lighting, floodlights, interior feature lighting, interior surface mount and lamps? Contact or visit Crompton today, a premier lighting supplier in Padstow!