Kitchen lighting

kimberley10

I live in an old cottage with lowish ceilings and am desperate to have a decent kitchen ceiling light. Everything we look at is either hundreds of pounds or really low wattage (our present one is a Wickes low powered light) a fluorescent 32 watt circular type - really depressing and does not light corners etc.


Has anyone any ideas for a powerful, but not too expensive kitchen light that will light up the room (12ft x 9ft) and make the room welcoming and functional?


Help!

kyle_amigo

when looking at lights dont look at wattage against you current lights. wattage is only a measure of power use and is irrelivent for light output these days due to energy efficient bulbs, leds and such like. what you need to be looking for is 'lumens' this is the standard measure for how much light will be outputted.

kaggi

I bought a ceiling fitting from B&Q, sure it was their value range, that had 3 led lights that could be angled to anywhere in the kitchen.

[Deleted User]

led bulbs are the best they use 90% less electric for the same light and its a nicer more natural light and the bulbs last 50,000 hours,plus they don't get hot and mark the ceiling,the last lot i bought were £15 delivered from amazon for 5

PheoUK

Good news is this isn't that hard to sort.

But you need to provide more details. What kind of ceiling have you got? Is it suspended from the floors above or are the beams exposed?

RE wattage - makes no difference necessarily as different light sources are different brightnesses, you need to look at lumens

Re "more natural light" LEDs aren't automatically so, it merely is because they come in different light temperatures. I use warm white, which is specified by the manufacturer of my light as being 3000k. Very warm is 2700, and so on.

MoneyMate

Have a look toolstation free delivery over £10
http://www.toolstation.com/shop/Lighting/d220. :beer:

kimberley10

The cottage has very thin ceilings, not wattle and daube but not much stronger. We have a Wickes value range fluorescent, circular 32 watt light which is cold and flat and I want a warmer, brighter type of light that reaches corners and work surfaces?