When it comes to restaurants, lighting plays a central role in terms of atmosphere and an optimal view. In the hall used for the reception of guests, it is appropriate to pay due attention to the tables, as well as focal points of central importance.
Illuminating the tables requires special care since the degree of visibility and the mood of the entire room will depend on it.
In this article, we’ll talk about how to illuminate a restaurant table and what factors need to be taken into account when choosing the most suitable lamps.
5 useful tips on the best way to illuminate a restaurant table
To realise the decorative lighting project for the restaurant you’re working on in the best way possible, follow our 5 design tips:
Concentrate the lighting around each table
Evaluate the shape and size of the tables
Choose the lamp model considering the location
Evaluate the type of colour temperature based on the mood you want to create
Use more lighting design solutions
We will now take a look at each point
1. Concentrate the lighting around each table
The tables are the focal points of a restaurant. Here, diners are preparing to eat their meal, expecting excellent visibility and relaxation, completely immersed in a unique atmosphere created through lighting.
Therefore, it is important that each table becomes the centre of your restaurant lighting design project. Concerning the surfaces, each of them must be optimally illuminated with the ultimate goal of ensuring excellent visuals and at the same time creating “a bubble of intimacy”.
Sahara e Gangster
2. Evaluate the shape and size of the tables
Before selecting the models of the lamps to be installed above each table, it is advisable to evaluate the shape and size of the table. This step will help you determine how many decorative lamps you need to use.
For example, the solutions used to illuminate a small table will never be the same as those used to illuminate a long table.
Nevertheless, for long tables, it is always better to opt for a composition of lamps, and for round and rectangular tables, it is more appropriate to select a different number of design solutions.
3. Choose the lamp model considering the location
If the previous step helps you decide how many lamps to choose, considering the location will help you choose the most suitable model to illuminate a restaurant table.
If you are working on an indoor lighting design project for restaurants, then you will have a wider choice, which can range from suspension lamps to ceiling lights, or even appliques.
While as far as outdoor spaces are concerned, the range of possible choices narrows, but you can still opt for viable solutions bringing an added value of style and functionality to your project.
You could choose elegant table lamps or decide to install floor lamps next to each table. The choice depends on the location in question.
Lucilla e Life
4. Evaluate the type of colour temperature based on the mood you want to create
Often, the atmosphere in a restaurant depends on the colour temperature of the lamps. For this reason, we advise you to carefully evaluate the intensity of the light source you wish to use to illuminate each table.
Warm light or cold light?
Warm light sources will create a climate of intimacy and complete relaxation, while cold light stimulates and energises the room’s atmosphere. Make your choice based on the mood your client wants to set for the restaurant.
5. Use more lighting design solutions
To instil a sense of creative variety in the project, use multiple lighting design solutions. It is not mandatory to use the same model of lamp for each table; on the contrary, it is always better to vary and give full rein to one’s aesthetic sense.
Therefore, our advice is to combine different types of lamps, playing with shapes and colours, while always remaining faithful to the concept conceived for setting up the restaurant.
The most suitable Karman lamps to illuminate a restaurant table
Karman’s designer lamps have an innate aesthetic presence and an extremely versatile decorative potential.
The retro charm of each design solution by Karman fits with ease into the most varied interior design projects.
Below, are the best suspension lamps to illuminate a restaurant table, according to Karman:
Settenani Collection and Biancaluce
Au Revoir
Braille e Life
Notredame
Sahara
Gangster
Déjà-Vu e Déjà-Vu Nu
Kimono and Ululì Ululà
Cell
Lucilla and Sisma
Alibabig
Settenani Collection and Biancaluce: materiality and refinement
The Settenani Collection is a line of lamps, designed by Mateo Ugolini, that shares the same body in rough concrete, but in 7 different shapes. They are ideal for small tables in a sequence to provide direct and intense light.
To complete the collection is Biancaluce, a concrete suspension complemented by a metallic skirt: a touch that makes the composition more graceful.
The living room is that part of the house where the family meets, where the most precious things are exhibited – silverware, photos, art objects and valuable objects – where you relax after work, watch TV, read and you’re in the company. Due to its highly versatile nature, this room needs varied and multi-functional lighting.
In modern homes, the living room is also used as a dining room and increasingly creates an open space with the kitchen, which makes it a very populated environment, lively and a hub for aggregation and relaxation.
How can you design an ideal living room lighting?
Such a diversified environment requires the right amount, quality and variety of light, elements that you must weigh with due care both when you buy a new home and when it is being renovated.
There are several solutions to consider when it comes to living room lighting. The 5 tips given in the following points will be useful to define a track to start from to realize your project:
Lighting accessories;
General lighting;
Stand Lighting;
LED lighting;
Workstations.
We will now go into more detail on each suggestion.
1. Lighting accessories
Several lighting accessories will allow you to create different light effects and give you various possibilities to personalize the living room you’re dealing with.
2. General lighting
Lighting up the whole living room will give you the possibility of not having any dark corners. This lighting is to be placed in a central position, where the table and sofa are usually found, and uses a single ceiling lamp or a series of spotlights with which to create different light points.
3. Stand Lighting
It is used to illuminate certain points of the room or particular objects and you can place it either on the wall using a wall lamp, or inside a showcase, library or painting.
4. LED lighting
Being very bright, this type of light will be useful to make a corner of the room stand out, using halogen lights or an intense white light.
5. Workstation
If you use the living room also as a workstation, it would be ideal to use a more subtle lighting that creates a play of light and shadows to delimit various areas of the room.
You can use a floor lamp or a table light positioned on a piece of furniture, which represents a very functional solution if you wish to dedicate a space reserved for reading in the living room.
It is very important that the client has clear ideas on where to place the various pieces of furniture in the living room, as, based on this, you can install a specific electrical system appropriate to the position of the lights.
Some lighting proposals for the various points of the living room
A classic living room proposal is that of an environment separated from the kitchen by a bookcase or a wall equipped for the TV and a sofa in front. In this case, a floor lamp would be ideal in the least illuminated and empty part of the room, so that the design of the lamp fills that space.
The TV must necessarily be well lit to allow you to watch it without causing visual discomfort. In fact, neglecting the illumination of this point disturbs the vision, it tires the eyes.
The point you have designed for the TV can be optimally illuminated to reduce the difference between light and shadow areas, with the use of:
A soft light positioned posteriorly, facing the wall;
1W spotlights in the false ceiling;
LED strips placed in the perimeter crown;
Floor lights pointing towards the TV back;
Small wall lamps near the sockets.
To illuminate sofas and armchairs, it would be better to avoid medium height lights, as they could directly hit the eyes of the onlookers, making the space unlivable.
Use concealed LED lights in the walls, which can be the same color as the painting or create various effects with colors, can be a solution.
The design lamps have the function of furnishing, while using the retractable lights you can enhance the light in a different way. In this case the attention is not directed to the aesthetics of the lamp but to the type of light that it emits, which forms games on the walls, or it can arise from below with a certain intensity to become more dim towards the top. In short, you can find endless combinations to enhance an empty wall.
The new houses in modern style have open space environments, such as living room and kitchen, where it is good practice to create a balance in the lighting, as the living room also serves as a dining room.
An example could be the use of suspension lamps placed at the center of the table. These lights provide direct lighting with well-defined shadows to bring out everything on the table.
For remaining unlit spaces, you can choose an indirect light, which does not illuminate a specific area, but has ample coverage to illuminate all the points of your interest.
This light can be derived from the hanging lamp you used to light up the table, or you can use appliques and ceiling lights. This type of lights will create light shadows, much less marked.
In the rest of the living room, which does not concern the dining room function, you can use a wide light or an angled light, depending on the type of furniture: a piece of furniture with a window can be illuminated from the inside, so as to illuminate its contents and offer a soft light.
If the room does not have a table or is smaller than 10 square meters, even more homogeneous lighting can be used, using a classic light point in the center of the ceiling or applique with LED lights.
Having defined this, let’s see what are the elements to consider when designing the living room lighting.
What aspects do you need to consider for proper living room lighting?
Before setting up your living room lighting project, you need to keep in mind some fundamental aspects:
Home design;
Role of the stay;
Choice of product type.
Let’s analyze each point.
Home design
What is the style of the house? It is important that the design of the living room follows the style of the house, or that it departs from it so much so as not to clash.
Role of the living room
How do you intend to use this area of the house? The roles that the living room can take, as we have seen, are the most varied, so ideal lighting must follow the variety of roles that the room takes, so as to make it suitable and functional for every type of activity.
Choice of product type
As a type of lighting you can choose between retractable spotlights, design chandeliers, wall lamps, bedside lamps or floor lamps, again depending on the design and utility you intend to use them for.
Once you have found the answer to these 3 points, you can go on to define which areas to illuminate and how to illuminate them. When you think of setting the living room lighting, keep in mind that it’s not so much about lighting up the environment as trying to create the right atmosphere.
The lights must be combined with a classic sober elegance, seeking a contemporary design that contrasts with the style of the furniture and the floor. In letting your imagination travel without brakes, be careful not to illuminate the environment too much, because it would be a worse choice than illuminating it too little: the light must go with the environment, be modulated and keep company.
So if the living room is in itself enough or very bright, you will have many more ideas to realize your lighting project, being careful not to make fundamental mistakes, such as those shown below.
Mistakes to not commit in your living room lighting project
The ideal lighting of the living room must necessarily follow the rules of style and design, to create the right atmosphere. For this to be possible, pay attention to:
Do not use a single light source for the entire room, but neither can you apply spotlights anywhere;
Light up the table, but without using colored light sources;
Apply appropriate lights to create an atmosphere that facilitates conversation and relaxation.
Usually the use of chandeliers is widespread in this part of the house. If you decide to opt for this solution, be careful not to overdo it: the use of floor lamps, suspensions, appliques and other more elaborate designs, used together, can cause the “jumble” effect.
Use only one of these solutions or combinations of them that are well thought out and fit together perfectly, giving a sense of harmony to the whole environment, integrating them with the rest of the furniture.
Depending on the size of the living room, you could opt for an important chandelier on the table with a particular design or fine manufacture.
If you have a living room with modern furnishings – fitted walls, bookcases, niches – lighting systems are usually integrated into the furniture and therefore add up to the lighting project. In this case the lighting design cannot discern from these elements, which are referred to as mood lights.
The best solution you can rely on is to use a minimal style with linear shapes, characterized by intense and evocative light, without forgetting to recreate a chiaroscuro effect to make the atmosphere more calm that gives you a more interesting result.
These represent the essential guidelines to be taken into consideration for your living room lighting project, in order to achieve the effect you wish to achieve in the best way.
Useful principles to correctly set your lighting project for the living room
In light of the careful analysis described above, we can say with certainty that the essential functions of lighting in general are of two types:
1. The first functional, because it is suitable to satisfy the various needs of use;
2. The second aesthetic, as responsible for the atmosphere of the environment, and, therefore, of the emotional state that it entails.
This, referring to the living room, takes on even more value. Since the living room is, therefore, the most lived-in area of the house, it must necessarily have:
Generic ambient lighting, adequate both in quantity and quality, as it is essential for the physical and psychological health of every human being;
Localized lighting, ie direct light (to illuminate objects and points to which you want to emphasize), indirect adjustable (to recreate the various atmospheres for different moments of the day and conviviality), widespread (which acts as a frame and accompanies the ‘furniture);
Specific decorative lighting (to illuminate specific points or to decorate the room, replacing furnishings and wall objects);
Finally, keep in mind the necessary consumption required for global lighting: an average living room (25/30 square meters) needs from 5000 to 7000 lumens, including diffused lights, direct lights and localized furniture lights.
Style and design tips to improve living room lighting
Following the suggestions suggested by this analysis, you will find the most important points that will mark the most suitable route for you, according to the specific needs of the customer.
Being able to create a lighting project to obtain the ideal lighting for the living room, will denote a perfect harmony with the design of the house and the furnishings.
Will know how to properly express the style that the customer wants and offer the atmosphere that best supports his emotions for every moment of the day.
Interior lighting design primarily depends on the size of the interior to be illuminated. Surely the lighting must make the environment welcoming, but without having a gloomy result. Let’s see what precautions you should keep in mind in your lighting design project.
The interior lighting reveals the expression of your interiors and is fundamental for transmitting the style and taste of those who live in it, enhancing the various spaces that compose it in a different and appropriate way.
Depending on where you go to place the light, the intensity and the type, you can create plays of light that are aesthetically beautiful, but also functional.
Regarding interior design lighting, based on the idea you have, Marchetti Illuminazione offers you a variety of solutions that can totally change the face of your every room.
How to choose interior lighting of specific design for the various rooms
In the design of an interior, lighting plays a fundamental role, as it determines its practicality, functionality and style.
So, in the design of your interior, turn to interior design lighting with exactly the same importance with which you take care of the other parts of the furniture, which you take into consideration to give each room the specific role you desire.
Let’s see some ideal solutions for each environment, dividing the interior into:
Entrance;
Living room;
Kitchen;
Corridors;
Bedroom;
Children bedroom;
Bathroom.
Going to order, we are going to position the most suitable lights for each area.
Entrance
The entrance is the part of the interior that welcomes you and your guests, so good interior design lighting must start from the entrance.
To make this possible, don’t save on lighting points: you can look for a single light point, like a suspension lamp with intense light in the center of the entrance, such as the Materica by Marchetti suspension lamp.
Or you can use a series of spotlights circumscribed for that area, perhaps recessed in the ceiling or in a false ceiling or hung in suspension like Incanto by Marchetti which, with its pentagonal design.
It is enriched inside with a pyramid-shaped handcrafted crystal block, worked in ice crystal, with steel parts finished in 24 kt shiny gold or polished nickel.
Living room
Usually, after entering, we come across the living room, which we can find both in open space with the kitchen, and as an autonomous environment.
If there is a table or desk in the living room, this becomes the main point to illuminate: it is important that a direct suspension light falls on the table. For this type of lighting you can direct yourself towards Marchetti suspension lamps as can the Ulaop line: with a unique and innovative design, this collection is born from an idea that initially could have seemed almost utopian, that is to free the light source from the universal constraints of traditional systems existing electrification systems, to break the preconceived schemes, to free the light.
Simple tubular metal structures give life to a series of products: sconces, suspensions and floor lamps, minimal and elegant structures that, like iconic totems suspended in space, are waiting to transfer energy when they are a ring in opal plexiglass that magically lights up and diffuses light into the environment.
This lighting is ideal especially when the table in the living room acts as a dining table, so that you can assure your client that he can see the food he is eating without being disturbed by the play of shadows that the general lighting of the room he creates with his body and with that of his guests.
The same is true even if you do not use the table for meals, but for other uses: a suspension lamp directed at the center of the table will allow you to have the right light to carry out all your activities.
For the other points of the living room you need to light up, the line you need to follow is more scenographic, based on the type of light you use on the table.
If you have opted for a diffusion lamp or for rain light points, which already in themselves are able to lightly illuminate the rest of the living room, then you can play around with the use of more particular and effect light points, such as Glace by Marchetti in steel and glass, with nickel or 24 carat gold finish.
If, on the other hand, the light you used for the table emanates a circumscribed light at that point, then it will be good to orient yourself towards a much more intense ceiling lamp with diffused light to give the right lighting to the rest of the room, like Feeling by Marchetti.
Its original design and its features in striped blown glass, embellished with minimal metal elements, make this installation a stylish choice to illuminate the living room generating wonderful light reflections.
Kitchen
In this area of the interior you have to pay close attention to the lighting, as the kitchen needs functional lighting for the various activities to which this part of the house is destined.
A key point in the kitchen to be illuminated is the piano, although it is often unjustly overlooked. You can illuminate the floor in different ways, but remember that it is not functional to indirectly light it from a diffused light in the center of the kitchen, because it will inevitably suffer the shadowy space created by those who work there, having the light behind them.
The light, therefore, must be directed on the surface: you can choose recessed lights to be installed in the wall units, or you can evaluate a solution using the plasterboard to position the spotlights in the space between the wall unit and the base of the top.
If your kitchen is equipped with an island or peninsula composition, you can install a pendant light point that falls about a meter from the top, like the Band by Marchetti lamp, or the Dome by Marchetti lamp.
As for the dining table, the same advice applies to the living room table: it must be illuminated directly and in full light, so that diners do not create shadows that can be annoying and uncomfortable while eating.
Corridors
The corridors are service spaces, which serve to displace the various spaces that make up the interior. These spaces require normal lighting, not too strong and not too dim.
If you have furnished these spaces in a sophisticated way, for example with built-in wardrobes, small columns with furnishings and so on to give more luster to the interior, then the ideal solution will be to install simple spotlights that will accompany you along the journey to reach the various environments.
Otherwise, if your hallway furniture is very simple, minimalist, then you can easily orient yourself towards particular and more charming suspensions like Olympia by Marchetti, with a nickel, crystal and 24 kt shiny gold finish.
Or appliqués with designs of a certain importance such as Moule by Marchetti, made up of steel structures that chase each other creating geometric shapes that capture the delicate essence of hand-made blown glass spheres, which light up in the largest shapes and create effects and reflections of light in the smaller forms. The steel parts are finished in shiny 24kar gold or polished galvanic nickel. Moule will by far enhance your space.
Bedroom
The bedroom is a living area, especially in the evening hours, so in those hours when you do not enjoy the natural light of the outside. For this reason, it is good to use for this space lamps with diffused light, so as to install a single light point that is able to adequately illuminate the whole environment.
Alternatively, you can decide to install a series of spotlights here, positioned in such a way as to harmoniously follow the progress of the room and go to illuminate in a widespread way the entire bedroom.
A nice combination of the two solutions is the Tin Tin collection by Marchetti, with satin-finish, black and white galvanic gold finishes, in which two geometric shapes, cylinder for the metal parts and spheres for blown glass, coexist in harmony creating atmospheres which are easily assimilated, giving a modern and innovative design that can give you many ideas for creative and functional lighting.
In addition to these lights, it is good to provide lamps to be placed on the bedside tables to illuminate the area of the bed sectorally, so when your client wants to read a book in bed or in an armchair next to the bed in the evening, he will not run the risk of strain your eyes and find yourself in full visual and emotional comfort.
To this end, you can choose table lamps with a simple and contemporary design by Lumi by Marchetti, with finishes in white, black and satin gold, polished gold and nickel that you can also use as a suspension lamp.
Children bedroom
The bedroom is a very versatile space, which changes with changing periods. Generally it is used as a space for children and, for this reason, it tends to change along with their needs.
A generic tip to adapt to these changes is the installation of a lighting point with diffused lighting in the center of the room, such as the Pura by Marchetti lamp, with possible finishes in white, black, black-white, gold leaf, silver leaf, leaf copper, white-gold leaf, white-silver leaf, black-gold leaf, and from today the new brass finish.
Bathroom
Also in this area you will need to install a spot light in the center of the room, which will illuminate with diffused light, such as the Intrigo suspension lamp by Marchetti, with finishes in white, black and satin gold, which constitutes a structure in steel tubes folded and worked by hand, on which milk white blown glass spheres are inserted.
As for the kitchen, the most important point to illuminate is the top, in the bathroom it is important to illuminate the mirror.
The mirror is of fundamental utility for women for make-up and for men for shaving, therefore it must enjoy a cold and intense light, but without reflections that could annoy the eyes, creating a very annoying effect as well as not at all functional.
For this purpose it can be suitable to install the Luna R2 by Marchetti lamp above the mirror, a lamp that, thanks to its shape, can illuminate all the space dedicated to the mirror.
Depending on the size of your bathroom, you can decide whether to install other light points such as spotlights scattered around the walls, or designer appliques such as the wall lamp Balance by Marchetti: very beautiful to see due to its minimal but striking design, the Balance lamp consists of a milky-white blown glass sphere that balances on its structure with a finish in white, black, satin gold or satin copper.
What is the best solution for you?
Those treated in this article are just some of the possible solutions signed by Marchetti Lighting as regards suitable lighting for interior design. It is possible to create truly infinite combinations depending on how the architecture of your interior is structured.
These guidelines will surely be a valid help to give you an idea on how to light your interior and view the high design solutions that Marchetti Illuminazione offers for the various spaces and environments.
However, the most useful advice is always to compare yourself with the ideas of a lighting expert like Marchetti Illuminations and submit your specific case to him, so as to find together the ad hoc solution for your personal needs.
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