Accentuate The Positive With Beautiful Accent Lighting In Your Kitchen
Accent lighting adds interesting dimensions, depth and a visual appeal to you kitchen.
Enhance a kitchen’s style by focusing attention on the beautiful artwork, pottery, glassware and other decorative elements.
A beautiful focal point such as a tiled mosaic backsplash or kitchen mural deserves to be shown to its best advantage.
The lighting design you use to highlight certain features in your kitchen and to create a relaxing yet inviting mood, should always be the focus of this room.
An interesting or striking kitchen accent lighting idea can make any kitchen shine. The right lighting can really put the shine on your kitchen space and appliances! If properly set up, the lighting can make your whole kitchen seem like it was designed by an expert!
Let's take a look at some examples of where accent lighting in the kitchen could best be incorporated.
Accent Lighting Examples
How about installing an lighting accent right inside a glass door cabinet for instance. This will give the cabinets a more dramatic look. Or use spotlights to show off your prized collection of knick-knacks or Lenox fine china.
Place a low voltage halogen light directly below a beautifully sculpturaled design glass and direct the light up.
This will illuminate the room with a most unsual glow and this would be specific to your own design. Use a fluorescent light to go behind the glass. Colored glass looks exceptional displayed with this kind of light.
Use a low wattage halogen light or rope light to highlight the space under the cabinets. Also, halogen lights are ideal for highlighting key spots such as a collectable or piece of fancy artwork.
High-light your beautifully arranged Orbit Spice Rack
or cookbook shelf by clipping a small spotlight underneath the shelf just above the books. This adds a lot of pizazz to the room.
High-light your greenery which can bring a little outdoor life indoors to your kitchen. Furthermore small light spikes can be inserted directly into the pots.
Another option is to use an up-lighter on the floor behind the plant. Direct the light to bounce off the floor and the ceiling so that the light spreads back to the plant. This adds a wonderful new visual element to the room.
As you can see, an accent can come in the many forms such as floor lamps, table lamps, track lighting, recessed cans, mono points, low voltage linear systems, in-wall or underneath cabinets, and much, much more.
There is a wide variety of lights to accent the kitchen available on the market today. This is going to be a vital decision in the design of the lighting you choose for your kitchen.
So take your time! It is important to choose the lighting that best suits your purpose and satisfies your style and taste.
Used sparingly and with a keen eye to focus the lighting where needed - this type of lighting idea in the kitchen will create a dramatic and dynamic visual impact!