Instead of big windows, electrical services are the key to brightening up a dark kitchen. The kitchen is the heart of the home and is where families spend most of their time. Aside from making the room dark and uninviting, improper lighting can difficult to cook and perform other daily tasks. Consider the following tips to help brighten up your space.

3 Tips for Adding Light to Your Kitchen

1. Enhance Your Ambient Lighting

Use a pendant light or a flush mount for ambient lighting in your kitchen. Ambient lighting serves as the main lighting source, which reaches most areas of the kitchen. You can use flush mounts, chandeliers, pendant lights, or recessed lighting.  The ambient lighting is the baseline for illuminating your space. It won’t be enough to brighten it all up by itself but it is a good place to start.

2. Focus Light in Key Places

Add task lighting to the areas you need the most light. This includes cooking and food preparation surfaces, over your island, and dining spaces. Task lighting makes it easy to read labels on food packaging, chop food safely, and read recipes. 

3. Add Accent Lighting

To accentuate your favorite spaces, consider adding accent lighting. Like task lighting, accent, and ambient lighting work together to provide another layer of light to your kitchen. Where task lighting lights up functional areas, accent lighting is softer and used to accentuate your favorite kitchen spaces such as plants and pottery under your cabinets or pieces of artwork. Sconces, mini pendants, and track lighting under cabinets are great lighting choices for accent lights. 

 

Electrical service professionals make brightening up your kitchen easy. Before buying fixtures, check out J&M Works, LLC, in Lewis Center, OH. With affordable rates and a heavy emphasis on customer satisfaction, they work hard to make sure every project is done right the first time. Visit them online to learn more about their electrical services or call them today at (740) 358-6875 for a free estimate.