Looking for a light source for your favourite room? Good room lighting looks beautiful with the right decor and furnishings. Find the fixture that fits well to your taste, creates a feel-good and cozy atmosphere. As the world's largest lighting manufacturer, we offer you a huge range of lights for every style and every room. Create a well-lit work of art in every space.
What does your interior design mean to you? Is your living room where you entertain or maybe it is where you enjoy life? Is your bathroom used for putting on your makeup or shaving or where you relax in the bath? Is your children's room more of a playroom or is it used for homework? Is your kitchen a cozy eat-in kitchen or where you create incredible dishes? How you use your rooms can affect the lighting within them.
Brighten the entire room.
The luminous flux of your light is measured in lumens. It indicates how much visible light is emitted by your bulb.
The luminous intensity is how strong its radiance is. It not only depends on the lumens but also on the concentration and beam angle. If you use two luminaires with the same lumen values, but different beam angles, the luminaire with the smaller beam angle will generate stronger light. The intensity (measured in Candela) indicates how much light falls in a certain direction.
The higher the Kelvin value of your bulb, the colder the light appears. The less Kelvin, the warmer it will be.
Use these points as a guide. We can help you with the design of your lighting product, to ensure you can achieve your desired lighting mood in every room of your home.
But enough of the technical terms, let's get started. In three simple steps, you can create the perfect lighting for your rooms.
"Simplicity is the highest form of sophistication."
Leonardo da Vinci
Basic Lighting
The basic lighting in every room is typically the fixture you switch on first when you enter. Here is how to make this lighting perfect:
Make sure your basic lighting is glare-free. This means that the light fixtures are mounted outside of your normal field of vision or are shielded. Wall and ceiling lights are best for this. With the right lighting choice, wall or ceiling lights will reflect the light and scatter it to establish good lighting and a soft and warm environment in the desired room.
Basic Lighting (Photo: OPTICA)
Step 2: Accent Lighting (Photo: LED STRIP system)
Accent lighting
With accent lighting, you can put your pictures, art, stylish furniture or cosy corners in the limelight. How to proceed depends what is in the spotlight. Pictures and art are best highlighted using focused spotlights, either a Halogen or LED spotlight with narrow beam angle. The warm light tone can create a cosy atmosphere. Showcases and shelves can be illuminated either from the front and above using spotlights, or from the inside using built-in and surface mounted lights. Cosy corners for reading books can be highlighted with a small table lamp or a high floor lamp.
Office Lighting
Office lighting or lighting for any workspace requires a focus on accents. Do your children do their homework at the dining room table? Do you have a desk where you have to file away your tax returns on long winter nights? This is when you need this sort of light.
Choose a bright light to ensure you are wide awake and productive during these working times.
We recommend finding a light source with a daylight colour to aid you in staying focused on work.
Choose dimmable lamps if the room is also used for cosy evenings.
Illuminate your office or workspace from several angles to ensure you have no hard shadows.
A good reading lamp is another example for work lighting. You want to be alert but have a cosy lighting atmosphere during times like these.
Is your light bright enough to allow you to read and concentrate without getting tired.
But not too bright that it dazzles or disturbs your workflow.
Step 3: Work Lights (Photo: peg light SALOBRENA-C)
Would you like a cozy atmosphere?
In cozy and relaxing rooms, such as a corridor or living room, you need around 100 lm/m2 of living space. For a diffused ambient light in your home, as well as your outdoor lighting, we recommend choosing a warm white lightbulb with less than 3300K. When using accent lighting and basic lighting in your living room, you can also use coloured light sources which you can control from a remote control or an app.
Do you want concentration?
In rooms where you work, you need a constant bright light in order to keep concentration, such as a study or the kitchen, you should use 300 lm / m2.
For offices or work surfaces, we recommend choosing universal white light sources. For example, between 3,300 and 5,300 Kelvin (K). This is easier on your eyes and keeps you more alert.
In basement rooms, storage rooms, or garages, you can also use lamps with a cold white light. That is more than 5,300K, and this type of light colour corresponds to sunlight.
Wherever you work, or do creative activities, make sure that you use lamps with a uniform colour tone so that colours look consistent.
Would you like a cosy atmosphere?
In cosy and relaxing rooms, such as corridors or living rooms, you need around 100 lm/m2 of living space.
For a welcoming atmosphere in your home, as well as your outside lighting, we recommend choosing a warm white lightbulbs with less than 3300K.
When using accent lighting and basic lighting in your living room, you can also use coloured light sources which you can control from a remote control or an app.
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Dining Area Lighting
Do you have a cozy eat-in kitchen or do you eat at a dining table in a separate dining room? Regardless of your room layout, here you will find the perfect general lighting options for your seating area. Ceiling fans mounted on a coffered ceiling will be an extravagant focal point in your dining space.
Kitchen Lighting
Does your kitchen have spacious work surfaces, or is it a cozy eat-in kitchen? Illuminate work surfaces using overhead light fixtures like chandeliers or spotlights. These fixtures can balance ambient lighting and task lighting with ease.
Living Room Lighting
Find the perfect living room lamp to create a cozy environment. Put together the right lighting using a reading lamp or floor lamp that matches your home style perfectly. Browse our collection to get living room lighting ideas.
Bathroom Lighting
Whether you are applying makeup or shaving in the morning, be sure to combine a neutral white with a dimmable, warm mirror fixture mounted on the wall. Both light fixtures will provide the extra illumination you need to get ready for the day.
Office Lighting
A bright light is focused light. We recommend choosing lighting with a daylight colour to aid you in staying focused on work. Choose dimmable fixtures to add warmth or highlight your decor. Add extra light with a table lamp to illuminate your office or workspace from several angles and ensure you have no dark shadows.
Playroom Lighting
A child's bedroom is often a refuge for cuddly bears and a construction site of toys. You want to ensure you have the right, child-friendly lighting in a child's bedroom or playroom. Good basic lighting in your child's room is typically warm white lighting. This can be enhanced using smaller bedside table lamps, preferably using LED lights as these don't hot and are more robust.