How to properly plan lighting in the kitchen
Lighting is not only important for working in the kitchen. In the kitchen living space, it also creates atmosphere. This is especially true, of course, if the kitchen has an open design and creates an open transition into the living and dining area. Well-planned mood or task lighting is therefore essential. You have many different options for integrating lighting into your kitchen: from simple workspace lighting underneath wall cabinets to significantly more sophisticated solutions such as integrated lighting for display cabinets, through to lighting for drawers and pull-outs inside cabinets. In handleless kitchens, it's even possible to equip all handle recesses with lighting.
Lighting design not only at the end
You should already consider light at the beginning of the planning process. Start by assessing natural light sources—not only for cabinet placement, but planning experts also consider the brightness by looking at the position of the windows in the room. The influx of daylight significantly contributes to the overall character and determines where and to what extent you should plan additional lighting. Here are our highlight tips and tricks regarding light and illumination in the kitchen:
2 in 1: Emotion Light
Work or ambient lighting? LED-based lighting systems such as Emotion Light combine both and are also energy-saving. At the touch of a button, you can dim lighting in different zones and seamlessly switch between cool and warm white.
Light fully under control
MatrixArt is the handleless variant from Nolte Küchen. The recessed handle trims can be illuminated horizontally as well as vertically. This allows you to create impressive ambient lighting that is only possible with Nolte Küchen.
Intelligent Lighting: Smart light control for your kitchen
Discover in our video how Nolte Küchen’s Intelligent Lighting makes kitchen lighting simple and flexible: seamless control via remote, app or voice assistant, 4 lighting channels and adjustable colour temperature. Perfect for creating individual lighting moods in any kitchen.
Let's get to work
Illuminating the work surface with light sources underneath wall cabinets is the most common solution in the kitchen. Here, too, there are many different possibilities.
Putting Your Display Cabinet in the Best Light
The display cabinet lighting from within: Glass doors generally create more transparency in the kitchen; here, the lighting emphasizes the depth effect. This is especially useful in small rooms.
Exclusive mood-maker FREE!
Handleless kitchens are absolutely on trend and represent a clean, tidy look with clear lines - we call this kitchen series MatrixArt. Illuminating the profiles used in an atmospheric way creates a special ambience and tastefully emphasises the linear design. Until the end of this year, when purchasing a new, handleless Nolte kitchen with at least 5 cabinets, you receive the lighting for the vertical handle profiles of this kitchen FREE, provided you also order the horizontal handle profiles illuminated.
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