When it comes to interior design, light plays a vital role. With the help of a well-designed artificial lighting system, you can turn an ordinary apartment into a work of designer art.
Spot lighting is modern and fashionable. Very often it is used in rooms where plasterboard ceilings are installed. Let’s find out what the features of this type of electric lighting are, and what types of spotlights are used for plasterboard ceilings.
Features of spot lighting
Installing spotlights on the ceiling has a number of advantages. Firstly, this is aesthetics: a room illuminated by spots looks much more comfortable than a room decorated with a bulky chandelier hanging in the center. In addition, spotlights can be combined with the main source, while spotlights will play auxiliary and decorative roles. Secondly, they make it possible to visually divide the room into several zones. Emphasized by ceiling lamps, such zoning looks more advantageous than simply dividing the room using furniture or, say, wallpaper. Thirdly, one of the advantages is saving electricity – you can illuminate only those areas that are in use at a given time. And finally, fourthly, the control systems for such lighting are very convenient and flexible, they allow you to vary the lighting effects according to your desires.
The main point when installing spotlights is that you need to take care of them at the stage of installing the ceiling itself. First, electrical wiring is laid over the structure frame, and then holes for lamps are made in the plasterboard sheets. All this needs to be thought out in advance and properly organized, as well as purchasing high-quality lamps, since replacing them, if something happens, involves dismantling the ceiling itself.
Types of spotlights
However, choosing what you need from the whole variety of ceiling spotlights is also not so easy. Spotlights differ from each other:
- by type of light bulbs: with incandescent or halogen lamps. Incandescent lamps are easier to replace, but they will have to be changed more often than halogen lamps. Also recently, LED spotlights for ceilings have become popular – they are compact, economical and durable;
- by the presence of a rotating mechanism: rotary and stationary. Rotating ones are much more convenient and interesting – they allow you to change the angle of light, if desired, focusing attention on different parts of the room. Stationary ones have a lower cost;
- by installation method: suspended, overhead and built-in. Unlike overhead ones, built-in spotlights are more relevant for plasterboard ceilings, by which many people mean spotlights. In addition to single lamps, there are also double and triple spotlights for plasterboard ceilings;
- according to the material from which the decorative part of the lamp is made: metal, plastic, crystal, ceramic, wood, etc. Crystal spotlights for ceilings are the most prized: they will fill your room with beautiful rainbow highlights. Such ceiling lamps look great both in a room with a classic interior, and in a minimalist or hi-tech style.
Spotlights mounted in a multi-level plasterboard ceiling are an ideal design solution for a modern interior. It is very important to place the accents correctly, choosing suitable lamps, and then the apartment will delight you with excellent lighting and original design.
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