The living room is the most active place for the family, so the lighting design of this space is especially important. As we all know, here in the living room we can choose from a variety of lighting designs. So most people are still torn when it comes to buying.
Chandeliers
Chandeliers are commonly known as hanging lamps, chandeliers are made of a variety of materials, including metal, glass, lucite, plastic, and even paper.
The advantage of chandeliers is that they are beautiful. Like the kind of European style decoration design is particularly suitable for the installation of chandeliers. The disadvantage of chandeliers is also very obvious, that is, the pressure layer height. Because the chandelier will hang down a certain height, so that the height is too low for the installation of chandeliers, there is a cramped feeling, a more appropriate height is the chandelier from the ground 2.2m.
Ceiling lights are roof-mounted lamps that rely on the roof, the upper part of which is relatively flat and basically does not have any height. The old ceiling light source has white bulbs, fluorescent lamps, and now the light source of ceiling lights are LED. The advantages of ceiling lights are numerous, including simple installation, generous style and cost-effective, etc. One of the advantages is that it will not press the height of the floor, no matter how high your home can be installed ceiling lights.
So how to choose chandeliers and ceiling lights?
From the house type
1. Duplex Building
If your house is a duplex, then do not hesitate to install a large chandelier directly in the living room can not be more appropriate! Duplex living room is very high, occupying a large space chandelier just came in handy, not only beautiful and generous, but also to fill the sense of emptiness brought about by the high floor height. Of course, the cleaning of the chandelier will have some difficulty.
2. Small house
For small homes under 80 square meters, I do not recommend considering chandeliers (unless you choose a custom model). The low height of the living room is also not suitable for chandeliers. Otherwise, not only can not bring warmth and harmony to your living room, but also will make the original limited space more seemingly cramped, whether the owner or guests, will produce a sense of depression.
Practical considerations
If considered only from a practical point of view, ceiling lights emit a very even and soft distribution of light, more suitable for daily household use. And most of the ceiling lights can now provide warm white light, positive white light and warm yellow light three light sources, according to different seasons, different preferences to choose at will!
Decorative role
When we choose chandeliers, in addition to the usual lighting, but also to decorate the space at home, so the style of chandeliers and the overall decoration style of the home to be consistent, opulent design to choose European chandeliers, classical and elegant Chinese to choose Chinese chandeliers, and so on, the style is not uniform will give the impression of disorder, incestuous, so be sure to choose according to the actual situation.
Selection of materials
1. Lampshade and lamp base materials
Choose ceiling lights not only look at the lamp type, but also look at the lamp base and lampshade materials, some unknown miscellaneous ceiling lights are made of flammable materials, which greatly increases the possibility of fire, so be sure to choose branded lighting when choosing.
2. The choice of lighting materials
In fact, whether you choose chandeliers or ceiling lights, lamps and lanterns try to choose LED lights. Whether in terms of service life or energy saving are more advantageous than ordinary light bulbs, and the power is smaller, the pressure on the wires at home is also smaller, and not easy to heat up.
