What happens in your kitchen? How much
time do you usually spend with your prime kitchen utensils and
valuable counter tops?
Lighting system is used to illuminate a
place either during the day or night, for working/task purposes and
for other purposes. But most of the time if not all the time,
lighting system in a certain room especially the kitchen is taken for
granted and/or generalized in the sense that as long as where you
want to go and where you can work is lighted, that is enough.
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| kitchenfull.com |
As Scott Gibson stated in his article
Light Up Your Kitchen “Bad
lighting can take the joy out of a kitchen. It makes cooking more of
a chore and discourages people from getting together. Even the finest
cabinetry, appliances, and counter tops look dull and unappealing in
dim lighting.” As in any other cases, lighting system greatly
affects in setting the mood of a certain area.
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According to Randall Whitehead, there
are four functions in lighting your kitchen and blending these
functions will provide you an effective yet inviting and fun cooking
station. These functions or systems namely are your task lighting, ambient, accent and decorative lighting.
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- Task lighting prioritizes key locations for work spaces like underneath overhead cabinets, islands or anywhere you can chop, slice read recipe or need to focus illumination.
- Ambient Lighting is best in softening lines and shadows on people's faces. This also sets a warm and inviting glow in the room.
- Accent lighting is the least common lighting in the kitchen because it may necessitate something to be highlighted.
- Decorative Lighting should be directly proportional to the size of your kitchen. Whitehead also stated that, "You want to make sure that the scale of the fixtures is right for the space, and that the shade material has enough opacity to effectively hide the light bulb."
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