Proper kitchen lighting is essential to transform an ordinary kitchen into a place that is the heart of your home. It is the place where you prepare your meals, meet your family, organize dinner parties, and do your homework. The right artificial lighting of a home can have a positive or negative effect on the general health of the occupants, adversely when it is inadequate or excessive. Based on the book “Ten Ways to Improve Your Kitchen” (By Jany Langmuir) most kitchens suffer from bad lighting. Also, the research “Need of Proper Kitchen Lighting in Urban and Rural Area’s” (R.Budihal, S.Rao, K.Shashidhar) proves that most housewives don’t have the knowledge they need to determine the necessity of sufficient lighting for their kitchen activities. So, which is the right lighting for your kitchen? With this blog post, we are trying to answer your most common questions about the right kitchen lighting. Let’s start!

1. Why LED lights?

LED is a modern lighting technology ideal for home lights as it has a much longer life span than traditional lights, it consumes less energy (this helps you save money) and doesn’t get too warm.

2. Are LED lights good for kitchen?

Yes! LED lights are the best choice for the kitchen because they can offer: 

Low Profile

The design of the LED kitchen light fixtures is very slim and convenient, even to use in areas with limited space like under cabinets.

Eye protect (No flashing)

The LED lights are non-flashing like the incandescent lamps. This means that you can work under them calmer, and even more, to read!

Energy Efficient

You will save money with this! Here you can enjoy A+ Energy savings and at least 75% less energy use. So, help the planet and your pocket!

Brightness

The first reason for using LEDs is that traditional lighting is not as bright as LED kitchen light fixtures. In the kitchen, where you work with sharp knives and hot flames, it's much better to have a lot of light to make sure that you don't get hurt. The clear and bright light that LED kitchen ceiling light fixtures create makes using your kitchen far easier. With halogen and incandescent light bulbs at low brightness, it's hard to see what you're doing unless you're right underneath or beside the light. Our advice is to use kitchen LED lights with a high colour temperature of more than 5500 Kelvin Morris 2ft, 3ft, 4ft, 5ft or 6ft Kitchen LED Batten lights. 

High lumens

Lumens measure the light output of the LED kitchen light fixtures. The higher lumens on offer, the brighter the light, and vice versa. We recommend a kitchen led from 1000 to 1800 lumens to ensure it's far brilliant and airy like the Morris 2ft, 3ft, 4ft, 5ft or 6ft LED Tube Lights.

Long Life

Compared to incandescent lamps, LED kitchen light fixtures may last up to 25 times longer. Whereas incandescent light bulbs last only about 1,000 hours – just a year with several hours of use each day. On the other side, LED lighting is estimated at 30,000 hours or more, which can result in decades at the same usage rate.

3. Which is the perfect kitchen light wattage?

There is an easy way to calculate what the perfect light wattage for your kitchen is:

1. Measure the length and width of your room.

2. Multiply the length with the width of your kitchen.

3. Multiply this number by 25.

4. The resulting number corresponds to the recommended standard watts that you need for your kitchen

4. What colour must be the kitchen light?

The colour of the light varies from orange to white. If the light is too orange, it may significantly distort the colour of the kitchen. On the other hand, the white light will make the kitchen ceiling light fixtures seem clear and give you the focus to detail that you need.

5. What is the Kelvin level of the lighting?

That tells you the colour temperature of your lights. A high Kelvin number gives you a cold light while a lower number gives you a warm light. Let’s continue with some Kelvin level examples: 2700K - Extra warm white 3000K - Warm white 4000K - Cool white 5000K-6500K - Daylight Our expert’s opinion is that because you work with knives and hot flames, you need clear light in your kitchen like the Morris 2ft, 3ft, 4ft, 5ft or 6ft kitchen LED lights with 6000K Daylight.

6. What is a bright kitchen light?

As you already understand, a kitchen always needs bright kitchen ceiling light fixtures. Good quality bright kitchen light is essential to everyone, but especially for the older ages. As we get older, the eye lens becomes less flexible and our lighting needs are changing. The eye's lens also becomes denser and yellower, which decreases light transmission, so we need more light to get a clear view. When you hear the question “What is a bright kitchen light” the Kelvin colour temperature must be more than 5000K like the Morris 2ft, 3ft, 4ft, 5ft or 6ft kitchen LED lights

7. How to replace kitchen LED light?

You will need 7 steps to replace your older fluorescent tube with LED Batten lights. Please find more information in our detailed blog post about how to replace a fluorescent tube with LED batten lights.

8. How to install kitchen LED lighting?

This is easy with the Morris LED kitchen light fixtures:

1. First, indicate where the batten will be attached and drill holes for the fixings on both ends.

2. Once the fixings are in place, use a junction box to connect the batten to the mains and clip the batten's base to the fixings to keep it flush with the ceiling.

Conclusion

To conclude, our expert team replied in this blog post to your questions about “how to properly light a kitchen”. The right choice of artificial lighting in the kitchen is really important and unfortunately, most kitchens are affected by awful lighting. LED is a new-age lighting technology with a lot of benefits, and it is worth the investment and installing it in your kitchen as soon as possible to start reaping the benefits both financially and aesthetically. What are you waiting for? Our team is ready to help you to choose the right LED lights for your kitchen! Call us today!