Ceiling lights in the bedroom

Proper organization of lighting in the bedroom - a guarantee of health and good mood of the occupant of the room. Our mood is 50% dependent on where we are. Therefore, it is important to make the room as pleasant as possible. Ceiling lights play a very important role in the bedroom.

Lighting can be divided into four main types - depending on the purpose:

• Overall. Purpose - a uniform distribution of luminous flux throughout the room.
• Local (local) type - is responsible for the flow of light in a particular area.

• Work light. Required to illuminate the working area: office, table, cabinet, mirror.
• Decorative. Emphasizes the allocated space in the bedroom, provides romance, adds mystery and beauty to the interior.

Ceiling-mounted chandeliers can be divided into two types (in size):

• Suspended. The fixture of such chandeliers is made on cables or chains, since the dimensions of such lighting fixtures are quite significant. Such devices are used in rooms with high ceilings.

• Ceiling. Differ in compactness, attached to the ceiling. This is the most popular type of chandeliers in everyday life.

By style chandeliers are divided into:

• Classic. Such elements are cast-iron or bronze chandeliers. The ceiling of such a device is made of glass. It happens white, tinted, colored. Crystal chandeliers are great for bedrooms that are decorated in a classic style. Such devices are multi-level, with mirrors or forged suspension. Crystal chandeliers for stretch ceilings are especially popular.

• Art Nouveau style. Such chandeliers are compact and simple, they lack various tricks. Smoothness and symmetry are the trump cards of such devices.

The material from which such interesting devices are made is glass, as well as wood, metal. Products differ in form. It can be cones, pyramids.

• Floristic type. The subject of manufacture is usually vegetable: lilies, tulips, petals. In the manufacture of such lighting devices are used materials such as glass, metal, crystal.

• Fabric option. This type of chandelier is used in almost all rooms. The features of such models include a variety of shapes and colors, original design, use in rooms with different heights, practicality and reasonable price.

There are a number of rules, the use of which guarantees the best distribution of light in a room:

• For small rooms for the visual expansion of the space perfectly suitable reflective finish - for example, wallpaper with a special coating.
• For large rooms, direct lighting fixtures are an excellent choice.
• For the visual expansion of the space suitable diffused lighting option.

• You can visually raise the ceiling, while using wall sconces with the luminous flux directed upwards. To visually lower the ceiling, it is necessary to use lamps with a stream of light directed downwards.
• The narrow room can be expanded by the correct location of the hanging fixtures. By shifting them to one of the walls, you can achieve this effect. Luminaires located in the center, on the contrary - will give the effect of narrowing the space of the room.

• To expand the space of cramped rooms, you can use a diode tape, passing it on one side of the bedroom.
• An elongated room is easy to make different due to the placement of transverse lighting. To draw a short room, you must use a longitudinal stream of light.
• For bedrooms, it is important to distribute the light spectrum in such a way as to create a game of semitones. An excellent option would be the distribution of light to the ceiling using a chandelier with a diffusing flow.

You will learn about all the subtleties of lighting in the following video.

General lighting in such a room should not adversely affect the health of a person’s eyes. Therefore, the recommendations are quite simple: install the ceiling version of the chandelier with a matte finish. The shape can be cylindrical or spherical.

You should not use incandescent bulbs: the luminous flux of such sources will be dim and sharp. Fluorescent options have a negative effect on vision.

Here are the recommended power ratings for 1 m²:

• 12 W - use incandescent bulbs;
• 30-40 W - the use of halogen lamps.

With adjustments for the reflective surface

For a small bedroom (up to 10 m²):

• with dark wallpaper - 5 lamps of 40 W each;
• with wallpaper pastel colors - 4 lamps of 40 W;
• with white tones wallpaper - 2 lamps of 40 W each, 6-8 halogen lamps of 50 W each.

For bedrooms up to 15 m² (depending on wallpaper):

• dark wallpaper - 7 lamps of 40 W;
• pastel colors - 5 pieces of 40 W each;
• light - 3 pieces of 40 watts each.

For a bedroom of 20 m²:

• dark wallpaper - 9 pieces of 40 W;
• pastel - 6 pieces;
• white - 4 pieces.

When choosing lighting in the bedroom should pay attention to the following points:

• Combinations in the interior. To achieve beauty is quite a difficult thing. Any element of the bedroom should be combined with other items - this also applies to lighting.
• The size. This is also an important factor in arranging the lighting of the room. For beautiful bedrooms of considerable size one light fixture will be small, you will have to buy additional light sources.

• For rooms that are divided into zones, the actual choice will be lamps that can change the direction and brightness of the light beam.
• The height of the lighting fixture is not less than 2 meters from the floor of the room, so select the hanging options as carefully as possible.
• Another trick - adjustable cover. With it, you can direct the flow of light in the right part of the room.