Designers believe that with the right lighting, you can not only place accents, but also significantly expand the space. These factors are very relevant in the conditions of a small hallway. This room is often deprived of natural light sources, so to maintain comfort and the right atmosphere will allow artificial light sources. Here you can highlight decorative lighting, lamps and chandeliers. Some use several light sources at once, making a bet on the game of shadows and soft, diffused light.
Lighting Features
The hallway in standard apartments is relatively small, so you need to choose the light for it according to certain recommendations. Try to observe the following tips for lighting in the hallway:
- be guided by the degree of illumination of the rooms adjacent to the hall;
- prefer chandeliers with frosted shades;
- lighting should not be blinding;
- The shortcomings of the hallway with the old repair can be hidden with a dim "chamber" lighting;
- at low ceilings, give up lighting directed downwards;
- Use switches with sensors that respond to movement.
These recommendations will help to effectively equip the lighting of the hall. A soft light, welcoming you and your guests, immediately adjusts to the atmosphere of home comfort and privacy.
Hallway lighting options
Previously, people did not have a lot of design solutions and often the flat met them with a lonely weighing Ilyich bulb, which performed one single function to illuminate the room. Today, manufacturers offer customers a lot of different lamps and highlights, with which you can beautifully decorate the space. Common hall lighting options are as follows:
- Illumination of the mirror in the hallway . In the case of reflective surfaces, it is very important to use uniform light that does not create shadows. Position the lamp at the top of the mirror frame, provided that it is located 170-200 cm from the floor. A very large mirror can be illuminated with a pair of symmetrical sconces. It is highly undesirable to use color lighting.
- Ceiling lighting in the hallway . Here you can play with the light and allow bold experiments. If the room uses a glossy stretch ceiling, a suitable option would be spotlights located in a certain order. Complex multi-layer gypsum plasterboard structures can be illuminated with an LED strip, not excluding spotlighting. The ceiling, trimmed "under the tree" can be decorated with woven plafonds or shades of rice paper.
- Illumination of niches and stained-glass windows in the hallway . Very often the owners in the decor of the hall use niches. They contain valuable souvenirs, family photos and various useful trivia. To emphasize the contents of the niche, built-in lighting is used. This game of light looks very stylish and modern.
- Lighting a small hallway . Visually expand the small hall will help several luminaires installed in one row and creating the effect of the gallery. Brilliant and glossy surfaces (stretch ceilings, stained glass , mirrors) will help to move the room and hide some of the shortcomings.
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When choosing lighting, you need to consider the color of the lamp. The incandescent lamp giving a yellow color enhances the saturation of warm tones - they literally play and shimmer before the eyes. Cold colors in contrast, become dirty and lose expressiveness. Fluorescent lamps perfectly emphasize pastel shades and cold scale, muffling warm. Thus, even a shade of light affects the atmosphere of the hall in your apartment.