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Kitchen Home Lighting Tips

Learn how to light your kitchen in this free home decor video from our professional lighting designer.

- Analyzing Lighting Needs for Home Lighting
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Keep in mind that when you are sitting at the table, you want to have enough face light to be able to see the person across from the table. So have your chandelier or wall sconces or your down lights up at a level that allows you to do that. Not up so bright that it distracts from the mood and that candlelit feeling that you are trying to create. We all have kitchens, we all have particular things that we do in the kitchen from preparing the food to cooking the food and just hanging out and talking with friends. Those are very different tasks. When you are preparing the food and cooking the food, you need a high level of light in those cases. A good way to get that is from down lights in a ceiling. The best way to do that is with recessed cans in the ceiling. There are a couple of common sources that you can use for lighting your kitchen. One being incandescent and one being fluorescent. Fluorescent is a much more energy efficient source and it has a lot less heat. So when you are in the kitchen and you are cooking food, it is probably a good source to have so that you are not adding to that ambient heat that is coming from your stove or oven.

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