Your home’s lighting design can make it more comfortable, functional, and inviting. The lighting styles you choose for each room need to highlight or accent areas of interest, design, or function. The lighting fixtures and design you use in your kitchen in particular can make it easier and safer to use and even make the space look bigger than it is. Here are a few ways you can use lighting to accent your kitchen.
Functional & Task Lighting
Functional and task lighting will make it easier to complete specific tasks in specific areas of your kitchen. Under cabinet lighting and interior cabinet lighting will make it easier to find items you need and prepare meals. Recessed, pendant, or functional wall sconce lighting can illuminate your kitchen island, stovetop, and sink while you’re working in those areas.
Decorative & Accent Lighting
Your kitchen likely functions as more than just a place to cook and prepare meals. For most people, the kitchen is a central gathering place where the family socializes and the kids complete homework. Your kitchen should have decorative and accent lighting that turns it into a warm, inviting, and comfortable space for everyone who gathers there. Accent lighting might include track lighting, sconce lighting, and suspended or wall-mounted uplighting.
Overhead & Specialty Lighting
You can add multiple layers of lighting to your kitchen lighting design, so you have greater control over the level of light. Installing a dimmer switch and other lighting controls will allow you to adjust the level, location, and brightness of light depending on what you’re doing. Overhead lighting, like recessed lighting, pendant lighting, or chandelier-style lighting, can add flair and ambience and will also contribute to your layered lighting design. This type of specialty lighting is more comfortable and attractive when compared to standard overhead lights.
Safety Lighting
Depending on the size of your kitchen and the size of your household, you might also consider installing safety lighting. Safety lighting is lighting that turns on automatically in the event of a power outage. This lighting makes it easier to navigate your home safely, and complete basic tasks until the power is turned back on.
Create a Kitchen Lighting Design in the Greater Tucson Area
At Southwest Kitchen, our design team and project managers can help you with every aspect of your kitchen design in the Greater Tucson area. We can discuss your lighting needs and goals and create a functional yet aesthetic lighting design for each area of your kitchen. In addition to lighting, we can also help you pick out kitchen countertops, cabinets, flooring, appliances, paint, backsplashes, and more. To get started, call us to set up an in-home consultation or to make an appointment with our design team. You can also stop by our showroom to see samples and décor ideas, review our online portfolio of completed projects, or contact us online to learn more about our kitchen remodel process.