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Lighting Design Tips Kalamazoo MI

Like day and night, lighting design can make all the difference to a room. Here are some pointers for good lighting design.

Local Companies

All-Phase Electric Supply Co
(269) 381-1114
1355 King Hwy
Kalamazoo, MI

Stage Lighting & Sound
(269) 343-3787
616 Portage St
Kalamazoo, MI

Wyandotte Electric Supply Company Inc
(586) 977-5838
6140 Wall St
Sterling Heights, MI

Electra-Lume Inc
(989) 894-1131
Essexville, MI

Abundalite Corp
(269) 764-8576
30322 M 140 Hwy
Covert, MI

Crites Tidey & Associates
(231) 941-9277
3480 Veterans Dr
Traverse City, MI

Mobil Solutions
(517) 886-3194
801 S Waverly Rd
Lansing, MI

Northern Lights
(906) 474-6226
10335 S Main
Rapid River, MI

Herald Wholesale
(248) 398-4560
20830 Coolidge Hwy
Oak Park, MI

Michigan Chandelier Co
(248) 344-0260
45319 Grand Riv
Northville, MI

Like day and night, lighting design can make all the difference to a room. It doesn't matter how much clients spend on fixtures, without proper lighting that takes into account the room's use and the mood the client wants to create, the final look will not be as beautiful or functional as it could have been. Here are some pointers for good lighting design.

Low-voltage undercounter lighting is one of the best investments to make in a kitchen. Lighting this usually dark area gives the space a nice warm glow. Mounted behind the front cabinet reveal, light is cast down and back, playing up a beautiful backsplash.

If you have pendant fixtures hanging over an island, viewers perceive the island and the fixtures above it as a wall plane dividing the kitchen into two galleys. The beautiful pendant fixtures may, in fact, detract from your remodeling investment. To make the kitchen feel larger, use recessed lights over the island or peninsula. To define a space, such as a breakfast nook between kitchen and family room, use pendants.

When a kitchen is lit from the middle of the room, viewers often perceive the cabinets as a big wooden rectangle, becoming one-dimensional and losing depth of detail. Carefully placing a recessed light 12 inches from the center of a wall cabinet will cause light to cone down over the cabinet, creating a focal point. The viewer now sees vignettes of top and matching bottom cabinets — giving the look of custom furniture.

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Featured Local Company

Light Tech Corporation

616-949-7575
4656 44th St. S.E.
Grand Rapids, MI

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