The subtleties of organizing lighting in the corridor

The intricacies of arranging lighting in the hallway are well known to professionals. Even if there is no way to contact designers or electricians, you can make a beautiful and personalized repair with maximum functionality. Use the tips of the article or ready-made solutions presented in the photo.

Each private house or apartment has an entrance hall or corridor room that connects the front door to other rooms of the dwelling. At first glance, this space has a purely defined function, has a minimal set of necessary furniture, and is devoid of natural sunlight. But it is the corridor or hallway that makes the first impression of the home itself, of the tastes and habits of its owners.

Properly thought-out lighting allows you to visually expand the room, transform the space, make it attractive, functional and comfortable. The correct scheme is able to emphasize the details of the interior, to place the necessary accents on the furniture of the hallway, the external decoration of the room, its design. Correctly organizing and attractively serving the corridor space is a difficult task, but it is quite feasible.

The difficulty lies not only in the absence of windows, but also in the often unsuccessful configuration of the room itself. In modern apartments and private houses, the hallway architecture can have various forms - from simple rectangular, square to oval or curved wavy.

There are several basic rules for organizing a luminaire system in the hallway.

1. Light emission should be evenly distributed throughout the room. In this case, one chandelier fixed in the center of the room is not enough to illuminate every corner of the hallway.
2. Light sources with a very bright or dim glow are not suitable for the design of the corridor. Dim lighting will significantly narrow the space, and bright will cut eyes, causing irritation in households.
3. Lighting in the corridor should smoothly flow into the lighting of adjacent rooms, a large difference in brightness is undesirable.
4. When choosing fixtures, it is best to dwell on lamps with a warm matte finish that gently scatter light.
5. The use of energy-saving and LED lighting sources will help significantly reduce the consumption of electrical energy, such lighting can be used at any time during the day.

The type of lighting of the corridor-hallway should correspond to its geometric shape, footage, interior decoration, and other features of the room. The main lighting options are as follows.

1. Main or general lighting - required in any case. The main task of this option is to create a comfortable environment when people are in the corridor, which eliminates accidental injury, breakdown of furniture, decoration elements. To do this, it is best to use one or more chandeliers fixed to the ceiling, spotlights, floor lamps or sconces built into the wall.
2. Local lighting - an integral part of any hallway that has a complex architectural form. Light, localized in separate places, emphasizes the original geometry of the room, focuses on individual elements of decoration or decor. For this purpose, it is better to use sconces mounted on the wall, portable fixtures on a clip, and other lighting devices with a directed light flux.
3. Additional lighting. Most often carries a decorative function. Additional light allows you to fully reveal the individuality of the room, emphasize its unique features, original design, draws attention to decoration and furniture.

Specialists designers advise combining several lighting options at once in the hallway-corridor.

The corridor and the hallway have a common negative feature - they lack a source of natural sunlight. If in a private house the entrance hall sometimes has a small window or several windows, then in the apartment, due to the particular layout, there is no natural light source at all. In this case, there is a natural need to use artificial lighting throughout the day. The most popular sources of basic lighting include the following.

1. Laconic, classic-style chandeliers that are mounted on the ceiling. Such a light source should have a modest decor, without a large number of hanging elements.
2. Point light sources significantly save space, they can be placed around the perimeter of the ceiling or in a chaotic manner. The presence of spotlights in the corridor-hallway enlivens the overall interior of the room, creates an original shimmering unique design. But this type of lighting has a significant drawback - spot light can only be mounted in suspended or suspended ceilings.
3. Spot - a universal lighting device that combines a chandelier and spot devices. The lamp consists of several lighting devices, the light radiation of which can be directed in different directions.

Local lighting is designed for the convenience and comfort of homeowners. It is a natural necessity to localize the light in certain places of the hallway-hallway (to highlight a mirror, paintings, decor elements, a pedestal-bench, a wardrobe). With the help of such lighting, you can divide the room into zones, which is also convenient. Such lighting can be organized using various lighting devices:

• sconces, floor lamps mounted on the wall;
• tapes from LEDs and neon;
• any light sources with a directed luminous flux to a specific point.

Additional lighting allows you to focus on the original design of the room, gives the interior a special charm and chic. For such lighting, you need to choose lamps with a matte soft luminous flux. You can arrange decorative lighting using the following options.

1. Suspended to the ceiling, the original design is transparent or matte type, behind which you can hide the ceiling lighting.
2. The simplest and most affordable type of decorative lighting is the backlight, hidden in the ceiling plinth, or launched around the entire perimeter of the ceiling above it.
3. Tapes with LEDs and neons can provide floor illumination. This type of lighting significantly expands the space of the room, provides safe movement.
4. Spotlights mounted on the floor or just above it along the entire wall allow you to use them throughout the night. For such lighting it is better to use small platforms with a matte stream of light.
5. Window imitation is very relevant in the absence of natural light sources. In this case, a small niche is formed in the wall, into which light sources are built, as close as possible to natural light.

Sooner or later, each owner of an apartment or a private house raises the question: how to correctly build a light scenario in the hallway, to hide the flaws of the room and identify its advantages. In an apartment with a narrow entrance hall, it is better to arrange the light sources so that their luminous flux is directed to the ceiling or the upper part of the walls. This technique significantly expands the space, and the corridor visually does not seem so narrow anymore.

Also in long and narrow spaces apply halogen spots well, the design of which allows you to adjust the light flux in various directions. Such lighting fills the room with volume, visually expands it. In a small curved corridor, in addition to the main type of lighting, it is good to use LED strips along the entire perimeter of the ceiling and floor, as well as spotlights. In the house in the absence of natural light sources in the hallway, you can use several lighting options at once.

The color and stylistic design of the corridor-hallway largely depends on the size of the room and its shape. When designing the space, it is necessary to take into account the correspondence of the color palette to one or another style of interior.

• Minimalism - eliminates the use of bright, catchy colors, it is characterized by light pastel colors, modest decor, the use of natural materials that blend perfectly with ceiling and wall lighting.

• High tech modern style - This is silver, glass and metal. This style involves the use of monotonous lighting, framed in strict metal structures, on high legs from floor to ceiling.

• Pop Art - bright colorful lighting, a ceiling chandelier made of multi-colored lamps and a bright LED strip will decorate the interior of the room.

• Classic - the most popular style of interior. Strict laconic wall sconces, a beautiful floor lamp on a long wooden leg, a crystal ceiling chandelier, wrought iron decor elements, a brown or sand color palette will decorate and ennoble the entrance hall.

• Empire style does not tolerate semitones and pastel shades. Red, gold, silver colors focus on individual elements of decor and decoration. Beautiful exquisite lamps with delicate blue light harmoniously fit into the interior.

Each lighting device has a specific function. When choosing lighting, you need to clearly understand what effect you need to achieve. Spot lighting is good for zoning the room, used to highlight certain places in the hallway and furnishings.

LED strip is indispensable for corridors with a complex geometric configuration, a winding or wavy room, as well as for illumination at night. The luminaires built into the furniture make it possible to use them throughout the day or at a specific time when such lighting is necessary.

With suspended ceilings, it is better to use point light sources located around the entire perimeter of the ceiling. Spot light can be mounted on the floor along the entire corridor. The location of the luminaires with the motion sensor along the walls closer to the floor will automatically control the lighting, sensitively respond to any movement, turning on and off independently. Such lighting greatly facilitates the life of household members of the apartment.

A tape with LEDs and neons is good for framing and highlighting individual surfaces (perimeter of the ceiling or floor, around the mirror, false windows). Wall sconces placed on both sides of the mirror will increase its reflectivity, the room will visually become larger.

When organizing a lighting system, many apartment owners make the following mistakes:

• a large number of light sources that are poorly combined with each other;
• wrong choice of lighting devices (excluding the size of the room and its shape);
• wrong choice of place for fixtures;
• insufficient number of light sources or their incorrect location.

• For a hallway in the style of minimalism fit simple in form of lamps.

• Using lights, you can create unusual visual effects.

• Visually expand the long and narrow hallway will help spots on a movable leg, allowing you to change the direction of the light flux.

• Properly constructed lighting of the corridor smoothly flows into adjacent rooms.

• Light accents at floor level and under the ceiling help to make the room more voluminous.

• Spotlights in a false ceiling help create diffused light and a cozy atmosphere.

• Spot lights help divide lighting into functional areas.

You can find out how to choose a lamp in the hallway by watching the video below.