Recommendations for choosing lighting
Some practical tips for interior lighting design of an apartment:
- When using niches, double or triple ceiling models in a room with low ceilings, you should properly design the lighting so that the structures do not look too heavy and bulky.
- For high-quality lighting, it is advisable to choose a white LED strip.
- As a decorative lighting of a box or niche with a curtain rod, an RGB LED strip is suitable.
- The lighting should not only play up and decorate the ceiling space, but also designate and competently illuminate all functional areas in the room.
Types of ceilings
There are several types of ceiling structures.
Suspended ceiling
Suspended models are divided into the following types.
Made of plasterboard
A plasterboard ceiling in combination with various lamps allows you to create unusual lighting accents in the room. See more ideas for plasterboard ceiling lighting.
Made of wooden slats
Built-in lighting located between the slats gives this structure a unique and interesting appearance.
The photo shows a slatted ceiling structure with lighting in the living room.
Glass
Glass models visually expand the room and give it lightness, in combination with various external or internal lighting, they look very beautiful and provide quite bright lighting.
Stretch
Various textured stretch The canvases allow you to fill the room with a soft glow. Such products look quite impressive and bring a romantic mood to the atmosphere.
Stained glass
Original lighting located under the stained glass adds depth and sophistication to the ceiling space and allows you to highlight either the entire ceiling or certain areas of it.
The photo shows a stained glass ceiling structure with backlighting.
Acrylic
Plexiglass creates original lighting effects and softly diffuses light. Acrylic or polycarbonate panels with backlighting create a beautiful and luxurious interior.
Mirror
Gives the room additional volume and space, and in combination with lighting, mirrors look especially monumental and majestic.
Coffered
In such a design, lighting fixtures can be placed both in each cell and in other areas of the coffered model.
Backlighting options
The choice of lighting fixtures for the ceiling is an important component of the design.
Along the perimeter
These types of perimeter lighting are very often used for various design solutions:
- Floating ceiling. Flying structures, due to the unusual effect, expand the boundaries of space and are therefore ideal for low ceilings.
- Contour lighting. Located along the edges of the ceiling model, it allows you to outline certain shapes and figures and create an interesting play of light and color.
The photo shows a kitchen-living room with a single-level floating white ceiling.
Interior
Solid lighting adds volume to the room, enhances the color and gives a feeling of large space.
Lines and stripes
Linear lamps provide an even flow of light and bring a charming coziness to the atmosphere. Light bulbs with different power levels allow you to focus on certain areas of the ceiling plane.
The photo shows a kitchen-living room with lighting in the form of light lines on the ceiling.
Translucent
With the help of such a translucent ceiling, which glows from the inside, a unique and mysterious atmosphere is created.
Geometric shapes (circles, squares)
Contour lighting gives a variety of geometric shapes additional visual volume and makes them quite a stylish design element.
Spot
Perfectly emphasizes and highlights the functional areas of the room. Spotlights can be used in single-level, multi-level or combined designs.
Hidden
It is a modern and surprisingly stylish solution that visually raises the ceiling and gives it a touch of mystery and fairytale.
The photo shows a ceiling with hidden lighting in the interior of the dining room.
Light sources on the ceiling
Allow you to further reflect the individuality of the ceiling structure.
LED strip
It is particularly flexible and compact, can be mounted on almost any surface. LED lighting visually changes the geometry of the room, raises the ceiling plane and makes the interior much more attractive and original.
LED lights
They emit clear, non-blurred light, as close to natural as possible, and fill the room with high-quality lighting that is pleasing to the eye.
The photo shows a kitchen with a ceiling decorated with diode ceiling lamps.
Light bulbs
They can have different positions on the ceiling, for example, along the contour, along the wall, in a spiral or in several rows.
Spotlights
Provide the ability to regulate the light flow and direct it to the desired point. Spotlights perfectly highlight certain areas of the room and create bright lighting in them.
Duralight
Flexible ribbon light cord duralight allows you to create unusual lighting for any structure and give it a memorable appearance.
Pink backlight in the photo duralight in the interior of a small living room.
Spotlights
Spread the light flow in the form of directed beams. Soffits are convenient, compact and have a special aesthetic beauty.
Examples of ceiling structures
The three main varieties.
Single-level
A unique combination of the simplicity of a single-level structure with the beauty of a variety of lighting fixtures creates a laconic and very harmonious design.
Two-level
LED strip or lamps especially effectively emphasize the multifunctional two-level design.
Multi-level
A three-level ceiling allows you to implement the most extraordinary design solutions and create truly impressive and individual projects in the room.
Backlighting colors
A certain color or shade creates the mood of the entire interior.
Neon
Flexible neon has a soft blue or blue glow. Such a cold shade looks great in both more spacious and small rooms.
Pink
Creates a magical atmosphere and incredibly beautifully envelops individual fragments of the room with magical light.
The photo shows a bedroom and a single-level gray ceiling with pink backlighting.
Color (RGB)
It provides several multi-colored options that allow you to adjust the ceiling model to any mood.
Yellow
It is a rather positive and bright interior solution.
Purple
A non-trivial option that will suit those who love non-standard and extravagant design.
White
The simplest, but at the same time very stylish and effective type of backlighting, creating a uniform white light stream.
