The right color of the light and the table lamp location itself are two key factors that will determine how our kitchen will look at during a family dinner or an evening meeting with friends at a shared coffee. Today, we'll tell you how to prepare for the purchase of LED table lighting and what color of light will be universal for most applications.

A single light source in the kitchen is not very practical

Due to their size and use, kitchen tables should be lighted up by completely autonomous light sources. Traditional LED luminaires and plafonds work very well as the basic lighting of the whole room, but additional ceiling lights that focus the light on the top itself seem to be a necessity.

For direct illumination of a kitchen table, it is worth choosing a delicate source from a single or several of the same lamps, in this way we can, without much difficulty, properly emphasize the stylization of the tableware and give the daily meals a unique character.

Let us remind you that if the distance between the lamp and the table top is small, it is worth considering a possible change of LEDs to slightly weaker ones, both for practical and economic reasons.

We choose LED lamps for the kitchen. Shape and application

At the moment the dominant trend in the lighting of tables in dining rooms and kitchens are oblong LED lamps with a shade, which allow for better concentration of light, and at the same time exclude the phenomenon of destruction of people sitting at a daily meal. At what height to hang the lamp? As a rule, if the table is not wider than 1.2 m, the shade should be hung about 50 centimeters above the top; above 1.2 m wide, we suggest removing the chandelier by about 80 centimeters, it is also worth testing a few settings according to your own criteria and the height of people who will sit at the table every day.

We also choose lighting due to the shape of the kitchen table. In the case of a round table top, individual lamps with round bowls are perfect. For tables with a long or extendable top, we recommend mainly sets of 2-4 of the same single lamps.

What about the color of light?

LED bulbs available on the Polish market allow you to choose from several basic temperature ranges of light color. It is worth paying particular attention to this issue, because it depends on the factor in which we sink the heat of our kitchen. The color of bulbs should be selected depending on the color of the kitchen walls, its equipment and the times of the day in which we were used to sit at the table. It is assumed that the universal value of the color temperature for lighting the kitchen countertop is 4000K, this neutral value will work well with traditional arrangements; at higher values, ie from 4000K upwards, it is worth reaching mainly for more modernist, cool stylizations and dark countertops that clearly absorb the light. The most popular and finding application in practically every kitchen is, however, warmer colors with a color temperature of approx. 3000K