How to choose ceiling lighting in the apartment

Hi, I am Olga, the art director of the Aquarius company, in this article I will tell you how ceiling lighting is, how it differs and how much it will cost.

Content:

1. Types of ceiling lighting
   1. Built -in spotlights
   2. Spotal lamps
   3. Light lines
   4. Track lighting
   5. Suspended lamps
   6. Ceiling chandelier
   7. Combined lighting

Types of ceiling lighting

Ceiling lighting is one of the main light sources in the apartment.

On the ceiling, you can use built -in spotlights, spinal lamps, light lines, track lighting, suspended lamps, ceiling chandeliers and combined lighting.

Built -in spotlights

This is the most common type of ceiling lighting in modern interiors. Such lamps are built directly into the ceiling. They can be made in a stretch ceiling or gypsum plate ceiling.

Such lighting is suitable for any interiors and rooms. It can be entered in both modern and classic style.

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If only built -in lamps are used on the ceiling, the lighting is inexpensive and reliable. The lamps in such lamps are LEDs, they can last several years. In case of breakdown, the LED can easily replace any adult.

The minimum cost of work and materials:

Spotal lamps

These are overhead lamps that are built into the ceiling. Their case is similar to a glass. They are rotary or simply directed at one point.

They are chosen if you need to highlight an object or zone in space with directed light.

For example, in this living room, a zone with a TV is highlighted using a spot lighting.

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The minimum cost of work and materials:

Light lines

Another stylish and modern solution is light lines. It is also used with stretch, or gypsum plastic ceiling.

A metal profile is installed in a pre -prepared niche, inside which a diode tape passes.

Clients like light lines. With their help, you can make various figures on the ceiling. It looks original, and the cost of such lighting is slightly cheaper than built -in lamps.

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Another light lines can be drawn from walls to ceiling. So in the space there are vertical lines that make the room visually higher.

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The minimum cost of work and materials:

With the help of light lines, you can save the budget, but this solution is not as practical as ordinary spotlights. In the lamp, if the lamp burns, it can be quickly replaced, but if the diode tape burns, you will have to call an electrician, and this is extra expenses and time.

Track lighting

The most universal lighting system. Metal guides are attached to the ceiling – tracks, and lamps to them. The advantage of such a system is that the lamps can be moved along the ceiling and adjust the angle of inclination. If there is not enough light for some reason, you can always buy and add additional lamps.

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Lamps in track lighting are similar to spots, linear and suspended lamps.

This is all track lighting too:

Tracks are with magnetic and mechanical fasteners for lamps. If the fastening is mechanical, the lamp is held on the track due to hard fixation.

If the system is magnetic, then the lamp is kept on the track due to built -in magnets, which primagnetize the lamps to the metal profile.

Many customers confuse lamps among themselves. They do not understand how, for example, the usual suspended lamp from the track suspended lamp differs.

If there is a track in the design, and the lamp can be moved on it – this is track lighting. If the lamp hangs in one place, and it cannot be shifted – this is an ordinary suspended lamp.

In track lighting, you can simultaneously combine different types of lamps in one room. For example, in this kitchen-living room on one track, spots and linear lamps.

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The track lighting system is more expensive than all analogues. The minimum cost of work and materials:

To this amount should also add the cost of the track itself. It is about 2-4 thousand rubles per linear meter.

Some clients are asked to make lighting so that it is like a track, but it is cheaper. In this case, I propose to use black spotto lamps or light lines.

Suspended lamps

Usually they are used as additional lighting of a particular zone. It can be a dining area in the kitchen, or a zone above the bed in the bedroom. They can be combined with any type of ceilings: with ordinary white, with stretch or with drywall ceiling.

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The minimum cost of work and materials:

Ceiling chandelier

A chandelier on the ceiling is the cheapest option for lighting, which is extremely rare in modern interiors. Of course, this applies only to chandeliers in a cheap and medium price segment, expensive chandeliers with a hundred bulbs are not related to budget lighting. It can be used both with suspended ceilings, and with an ordinary white ceiling.

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To illuminate a room with an area of 10 squares, chandeliers with 5-6 lamps may be enough.

Suitable for classic owners and loft interiors. Clients choose a chandelier, because with it the ceiling does not look empty. A chandelier is a full -fledged decor and it gives originality to the interior.

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The disadvantage of the chandelier is that the light from the lamps spreads unevenly and the corners of the room are illuminated worse.

The minimum cost of installing a chandelier along with the material:

Combined lighting

Many clients want to have different lighting levels that can be adjusted to their needs. For this, different types of lamps are combined in the interior.

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In the case of combined lighting in the room, you can use a chandelier and built -in lamps, or light lines with spots. Convenience is that you can leave the light in one part of the room, and turn it off in the other.

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If you compare all types of ceiling lighting, it turns out that the most expensive option is track lighting, and the cheapest is to make one inexpensive chandelier on the room.

Conclusions

If you need reliable and inexpensive lighting in the apartment, then you should use built -in ceiling lamps.

Spot lamps are best used if you need to highlight an object or zone.

Light lines are a modern and inexpensive solution, but in the event of a breakdown you will have to call an electrician.

Track lighting is the most expensive option, but also the most convenient. Lamps can be moved along the ceiling, adjust the angle of inclination. They can be used as the main light and as an object of the object.

Suspended lamps are used to illuminate a certain zone.

If you need to organize lighting of different levels and zones, it is better to use combined light. In this case, the built -in lamps are combined with a chandelier, suspended lamps, spots and light lines.

The usual chandelier as the main lighting is now used extremely rarely, mainly only in combination with other light sources.