Energy-saving lighting and Lamps

Buying a condo is a safe retirement, but is associated in the early years with an enormous financial burden. Because in addition to the purchase price, the cost of finance and the need for the homeowners association levies payable sometimes refurbishment and modernization measures within their own homes to be made. This should be checked prior to unconditional and possibly included in the loan amount. A measure by which this could save a lot of energy costs and the chance that a higher loan is necessary, provides a sophisticated lighting design represents Aside from the following tips we recommend also the book "lights, lighting, effects" by interior designer Elizabeth Wilhide which herein presents exciting lighting concepts and while doing well on the interaction of daylight and artificial light.

Location and orientation of the flat

Because lighting design is much more than just the choice of models and lamp bulb. You basically starts with the choice of the future condo. While visiting shoppers should pay attention to the location and orientation of the apartment. In narrow streets as the sun's rays hardly penetrate as far into the ground-floor apartments, which reach the upper floors it does confer a benefit.

Nor should the window of the living room in which you spend inside his home in the rule most of the time, be oriented to the southwest, so that you can benefit from the last warm rays of the sun and therefore must turn on lights and heating much later, as conditions when the living room North would show. This should, of course, the windows are not dense coniferous trees that can no sunlight all year round. Deciduous trees, however, can protect just the summer before an overly intense heating of the room while they let that happen anyway rare in winter sunlight.

Also, we should at the lighting design always have the ready furnished home in mind. Where the seating area in the living room will be where the table stand? Where are located in the kitchen, the countertops are? In short, future homeowners should ask themselves in what rooms and areas in which room they are expected to perform what actions and what light they need for this purpose. In this way, everything can be perfectly matched and possibly necessary power cables are placed in time.

In regard to the a room lighting, of course, also plays a key role of the ceiling height. The higher the ceiling, the more powerful lamps or bulbs are necessary to the lower levels of space adequate supply of light. Pendant lights are here, therefore the better choice, sometimes, also the drawing of a suspended ceiling, together with integrated LED lights to be a worthwhile investment. Before buying the condo, but you should definitely consider if you can make this conversion without further action as part of your special rights as owners, or whether you need the consent of the owners' association is necessary.

Tips for a cozy lighting in the room

Who wants to save energy and at the same time have a pleasant lighting atmosphere in the home, especially in the living room is a combination of a dimmed or indirect general lighting and direct lighting space recommended. Here, now of the cable and rail systems, recessed spotlights to classic pendant light all lamp types to be equipped with a dimmer, also they can, they should get more used, even independently dampen in brightness turned up.

The light for general illumination can also come from artemide lamps with primarily indirect light, speak of such, protect where a lighter fabric shade or a tinted glass from the direct view of the light source, the brightness and the light color of the diffuse light is thus especially the luminaire design determined. This illumination variation is mainly for smaller spaces, but again should be paid to the size of the lighting structure to ensure sufficient brightness is guaranteed in the room.

Also suitable for the indirect illumination of a room called base wall washers, which are used immediately before the wall to the ceiling or in the floor and illuminate the wall; the so reflected light illuminates the room very softly and smoothly. Since the wall-washer are equipped with LEDs, can also play top gradients, and individual lighting scenes can be created. The same applies also for finally cove luminaires where in ceiling or wall profile are also LED strips embedded and provide a gentle atmosphere in the room.

Energy-efficient bulbs

As a power-saving bulbs come in addition to the energy saving lamps and LEDs are still too modern fluorescent lamps and low-voltage halogen lamps with infrared coating in question. The latter two also have the advantage that they can reproduce the colors of course. In addition, care should be taken in fluorescent lamps that they have an electronic ballast, for low-voltage halogen lamps recommend meanwhile transformers, to help save energy and prolong the life of the bulb. For lamps with transformers, users should use a power socket as transformers, even if the light is off, in standby mode consume a lot of electricity.