{"id":66,"date":"2019-02-06T10:43:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T09:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marcled.com\/blog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2025-05-15T14:37:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T12:37:25","slug":"how-to-plan-lighting-in-the-kitchen-a-practical-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcled.com\/blog\/how-to-plan-lighting-in-the-kitchen-a-practical-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Plan Lighting in the Kitchen – A Practical Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

The kitchen is becoming the heart of every house – there is no longer any stigma involved in calling your friends over to the kitchen and relaxing by grabbing beers and spending time preparing a meal. One of the most common reasons people don\u2019t use their kitchen more is lighting – bad lighting will give your kitchen a dead ambience and make it uninhabitable. Here are tips to fix that:<\/p>\n

Sufficient Lighting<\/h2>\n

This is the most important aspect of the design – whatever you do, make sure your kitchen gets enough lighting. Many people get lost in the minutiae of whether they should choose\u00a0a daylight LED strip\u00a0or\u00a0recessed LED strip lighting, and they don\u2019t remember to actually properly light their whole kitchen. So, even if you need\u00a0kitchen cupboard lights<\/a>\u00a0or a led under-cabinet lighting<\/a>\u00a0to light up the whole place, use them! A kitchen with proper lighting will have a warm and welcoming atmosphere, so much so that you and your family will want to spend more time there.<\/p>\n

Colour Psychology<\/h2>\n

The last 20 years of scientific literature shows that colour schemes affect humans much more than we thought. They can determine our mood and our emotions, which means we should pay extra attention to what colours of lighting we choose. Two basic examples of how colour distorts our perception:<\/p>\n