The Beauty of Kitchen Lights
It is well known that when redecorating or renovating a kitchen, an appropriate choice of lighting can be a perfect finishing touch to the overall aesthetic of the room. However, choosing attractive kitchen lights does not mean that you have to compromise on their practicality as there are lights available for all purposes, such as overhead lights, under- and in-cabinet as well as in-drawer lighting. Each of these types of kitchen lights are available in a variety of forms such as linear fluorescent tubes, compact fluorescent lights and Light Emitting Diode (LED) lighting.
The use of linear fluorescent kitchen lights, whether in the forms of strips for underneath cabinets or as a fluorescent utensil rack, has several advantages such as having an excellent colour rendering, being available in a wide range of lengths and wattages and being cost efficient. Compact fluorescent lights are also great value for money, being cheaper than LED lighting, and the fact that they are longer lasting means that long-term maintenance costs are reduced.
LED lighting has been rightly described as ‘the next generation of lighting’ for several reasons. The advantages of using LED lights include the fact that they are available in a wide range of colours and have a life expectancy four times that for fluorescent lights and twenty times that of halogen lights (making them also suitable for use as garden lights if required). Recent advances in LED technology has also resulted in improved energy efficiency when compared to other types of lighting, with energy savings of 60% compared to compact fluorescent lights and a staggering 90% compared with halogen lighting.
LED kitchen lights are available in a variety of forms to meet any possible need, from ‘button lights’ (available in white, blue and green), to strip lights and even self-adhesive, colour-changing LED tape.
