Not things I`d be thinking of myself but as I have seen them then some folk like them so its another choice if needs be.
Kitchen light suggestions
- Thread starter JohnW2
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True. I suppose that oil lamps and candles are also 'other choices'
To be serious, though, I was only really thinking of considering 'mainstream' things - so I guess primarily LED tubes, LED panels and, perhaps pendants (and also 'maybe', if circumstances made it desirable, also 'supplementary' things like wall lights and spotlights) and (if I had wall cupboards) under-cupboard lighting.
Bear in mind that the kitchen is almost unique in that a majority of the time you are working close to and facing the wall and hence creating a high risk of shadow on your work space, as such I'd avoid point lighting and my choice has always been linear fluo's and the longer the better simply to cut down shadows.True. I suppose that oil lamps and candles are also 'other choices'
To be serious, though, I was only really thinking of considering 'mainstream' things - so I guess primarily LED tubes, LED panels and, perhaps pendants (and also 'maybe', if circumstances made it desirable, also 'supplementary' things like wall lights and spotlights) and (if I had wall cupboards) under-cupboard lighting.
However the rental property I mentioned earlier was 2.4m x 1.5m with heck a sketch is easier
with a run of wall cupboards and cooker hood opposite the door, creating a shadow was nigh on impossible other than the wall cupboards themselves.
Roughly speaking this shows a 3m wide kitchen with 600mm worktops both sides, single light at 2.4m ceiling and 1.8m person standing at worktop
Dark grey shows shadow cast by the shoulders/body and light grey shadow cast by the head.
As you are presumably aware, that's what I have been thinking and saying all along. As I said very early (and have essentially 'stuck with') my main thinking (pending input and advice from others) was to replace the one 5' 'tube fitting' (now LED) which I now have, with two like that, in-line, so as to cover as much of the length of the room as possible.
However, on reflection, they don't need to be 'tube fittings' - a panel of similar length would presumably be as good, light-wise,and might well look better. Although, like so many others, I've used fluro tube fittings in places like kitchens, I have always felt that they look rather 'industrial' for a domestic environment - so I would probably regard it as a bit silly to go with things like flameport suggested, which do not contain tubes but have been made to look as if they do! I think that 'long panels' would probably look much more 'domestic'!
Whilst, as I have said, I certainly agree that 'point light sources' are undesirable in locations like kitchens and workshops etc. (maybe even some offices etc.), and whilst I don't disagree, conceptually, with anything you say and illustrate about shadows, I think that, in practice, the shadow issue is nothing like as bad as one might expect.
Particularly if (as is commonly the case) everything is fairly light-coloured, reflections off walls, ceiling, cupboard doors, work surfaces and even floor have light bouncing about all over the place, thereby mitigating the shadow issue to a very appreciable extent.
Certainly traditionally, and probably still today, the majority of rooms in domestic settings are lit by a 'point source' (very commonly a single pendant) and, although there are presumably always at least some shadows to be seen if one 'goes looking for them', in practice one usually does not notice, or become aware of, any shadows at all.
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