It’s a well-known fact that effective lighting solutions are often a great way to enhance features in your home and adding or altering your light set up can completely change the feel to your space. With household bills on the rise many people feel reluctant in adding or altering new lighting in their homes so not to increase costs further. However, this doesn’t have to be the case and if you are on the hunt for energy saving lighting in Darlington read on!
Once considered expensive and only capable of a dull glow LED bulbs are now much more affordable and although still a little more expensive than standard bulbs, they also have longer running hours and consume much less energy when in use and come in a range of colours, lumen levels and recently LED strips are being used to create great effects.
Simple yet incredibly versatile. LED strips can be used in a huge range of places – as long as they are in within reach of an electrical outlet they can attach to. Here’s some great ideas on where LED strip lighting can be used throughout your home as an effective energy saving lighting solution:
Ceiling, coving or cornice
Installing LED strips to the ceiling or coving can provide a number of great effects in a convenient and inexpensive way. LED lighting in the coving or ceiling can create a warm welcome into your entryway or highlight ornate ceiling details in entertaining areas. They can also be used to highlight the tops of cupboards for example in the kitchen to “bring everything together”.
Stairs
There are a few different ways to use LED strip lights on the stairs. One idea is to add strip lighting below the railing or underneath the tread, or even running up the stairs at step level! Hugely effective and also handy when using the stairs in the dark.
Shelving and under cabinets
LED strip lighting used on shelves can be used to showcase your belongings in an effective way. It can also be used inside cupboards and with motion activated LED options available you don’t need to have to worry about clutching around in the dark for a light switch. Under cabinet LED strip lights not only look good but they also function as task lighting making surface areas easier to work in.
In the bathroom
LED strip lighting can be used to create effective, soft illumination to your bathroom. Adding LED strip lighting to the rim of bathtub or the sink can create a soothing relaxing lighting solution in your bathroom. It's important that any lights located in a potential splash zone have an IP rating of 65.
Screens
Placing LED strips on the back of your various screens (computer, television, etc.) helps to reduce eye strain by offsetting the brightness. Plus, it creates a very effective setup as you can select LED light strips with colour changing options.
These are the most common uses we have seen for using LED strip lighting, however there are many other ways to add and install energy saving lighting this is no way an exhaustive list!
If you would like more information about your energy saving lighting options in Darlington, don’t hesitate to give us a call and we will be happy to help with your enquiry.
