When designing a room for a child, you need to take into account many points regarding the design - this applies to the choice of furniture, home decoration, selection of wallpaper and more. Also an important detail is the selection of the right lighting for this room, since it is very important for children's eyes to choose the right artificial and natural light. When developing a design project in graphic terms, it is imperative to correctly distribute the light in the children's room.
Lighting in the children's room affects the overall well-being of the child, his psychological mood and the formation of vision
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When choosing a room for a child, you need to consider not only artificial, but also natural lighting that comes from the windows. Ideally, if the nursery overlooks the southeast or east - then the light will fall in the right amount in the morning with the first rays of the sun, in the afternoon - gently lighting everything around, and in the evening it will be replaced by electric lamps.
In the children's room there should not be either excessively bright places or dark corners
If the windows face north or west, then in planning the design you need to consider that there will be little light coming into the nursery and this can be compensated by correctly distributing the artificial lighting in the nursery.
When choosing fixtures, you need to give preference to durable structures, and not choose chandeliers from fragile glass. If this is the boy’s room, then he can decide to play the ball, and such a chandelier can suffer from it and be broken.
Correct placement of outlets is very important in the interior, since if a child is young and he has access to this dangerous source of current, then this can result in serious consequences. If the sockets are not hidden under different surfaces or are in places accessible to children, then you can choose options with increased security. Currently, there are many such options: closed with a lid, locked with a key and so on. Long wires that lie under your feet will prevent the child from moving freely around the room - it is better to hide them in the wall, put them on the ledges, closing them with special plastic cases.
The number and location of fixtures depends on the size of the room
Ideally, you need to create evenly diffused soft lighting throughout the room
In order to correctly place the devices for supplying light in this room, you need to take into account:
When zoning the space, you need to take into account that for the play area you need bright ceiling lighting that will not be harmful to the eyes and will allow the child to see the smallest details in puzzles, constructor and other games. It is not necessary that there are dark corners in this room, but too bright light will be harmful, bring the child excessive irritability, and will adversely affect the nervous system.
As a central lighting, you can use a chandelier or fixtures-slots
It is advisable to arrange the workplace by the window so that the desk is well lit by daylight
Another important area is a place for study, drawing, reading. There is no need to make overhead lighting for it - an ideal table lamp will be in operation, which can freely stand on a table or can be attached to it by means of clothespins and other fasteners. When choosing such a lamp you need to consider its benefits:
The third zone in this room is a place for rest and sleep. It does not require a lot of light bulbs, and only a soft light coming from the nightlight will do.
In the room of a small child, decorative nightlights in the form of luminous toys are appropriate
Older children will find table lamps near the head of the bed.
The division into zones can be done by embedding the lighting in a suspended or plasterboard ceiling, in an arch or by distributing hanging lamps around the perimeter. The light in the nursery should be neutral white on the main lamps and yellow for bedside sconces.
Lamps must be evenly distributed over the ceiling so that the entire area of the room is lit equally well
It is ideal to use LED bulbs due to the following advantages:
When choosing lamps hanging from the ceiling, it is best to dwell on models in which the light is directed not down, but to the sides or up. This view will better diffuse electric lighting throughout the room.
The lamp on economical LED lamps in a children's marine style
The penetration of sunlight is a natural source of lighting, it is useful not only for children but also for adults. In order for a large amount of natural light to enter this room, you need to select curtains from lightweight fabric and light, soft shades. With intensive penetration of the sun in the windows facing the south side, it is required to use denser curtains, since an excess of such light is also not necessary.
Natural light is best for the baby’s eyes.
If necessary, you can completely abandon window decoration with curtains
To emphasize the natural lighting in the nursery for the boy, you can choose sky-blue shades of curtains, which will also be well suited to the design of the entire room, and the yellow, green color of the curtains can be suitable for children of both sexes. Strict chandeliers made of durable materials and using LED bulbs can be hung on the ceiling. If the room is decorated in the style of some kind of fairy tale, a movie about heroes, then the lamps, sconces, and nightlights should be selected so that they emphasize the general design decision.
Slots that can be moved along the guide rail are used as general lighting.
State-of-the-art solution - recessed LED linear lighting
For a little princess, pink, lilac, yellow curtains that will beautifully scatter light around the room will look spectacular on the windows for soft transmission of sunlight. On sale there is a wide variety of different lamps in the form of flowers and even dolls that will perform not only a practical function, but also look aesthetically beautiful, stylish.
For the little girl’s room, you can pick up interesting lamps in the form of animals or toys
A teenage girl will be interested in modern models of fixtures, selected for the style of room decoration
Lighting in the nursery is of great importance, since its quality is very important, which does not harm children's eyesight. When choosing fixtures, you need to be guided not only by your taste, their appearance, but also pay special attention to the material from which they are made, their performance and their style, corresponding to the overall design of the entire nursery space. This room should not have fragile things, especially for small children living in it, who can play a little and break something, and this also applies to lamps located on the ceiling, wall or shelf. Therefore, they must be made of durable material and well fixed on a vertical or horizontal surface.
The lamp in the form of a moth will be appropriate in the room of a small child
Such a lamp can be made independently of wood and colored ropes.
To emphasize the style, which involves paying attention to the details of the interior, including also lighting, chandeliers, lamps and sconces, which are attached to the wall with hooks. This type of mount is very convenient for fixing fixtures and will be ideal for children.
Pink flower wall mounted night light
These types of fixtures are widely used for suspended, stretch or plasterboard ceilings in the nursery.
The implementation of general lighting using spotlights built into the lower tier of a two-level ceiling
Advantages of using point devices:
With the help of spotlights mounted in a shelf above the workplace, you can ensure uniform lighting of the desk
The main sources of light have always been lamps hanging from the ceiling. In this way, you can light up the table for lessons, drawing and other activities that require bright lighting. The play area also needs such lighting.
The appearance of the ceiling lamp should be combined with the overall design of the room
In this room you can see the implementation of the children's design project in the spirit of a fairytale forest, which favorably emphasizes lighting, which has various color schemes and diffuses light softly. Spotlights are built into the plasterboard ceiling on top of the sofa, additionally illuminating this area, and above the bed, on the contrary, they are not there to create a comfortable stay in this area for sleep, relaxation.
For placement of spotlights in the children's room, a two-level ceiling is arranged
This nursery belongs to two heterosexual children, which is divided into two zones with the help of a partition turning into an arch. On each part there is a window with different colors of curtains, favorably shading the soft, natural light that penetrates this room. The artificial ones include built-in spotlights in the ceiling, pay attention to the photo of the sconce in the nursery above the bed.
Each zone is decorated in its own color scheme.
In this room you can see the successful use of several types of lighting: natural for the study area, spot and main in the form of several lamps located in the central part of the ceiling.
The main lighting is realized by spotlights, wall sconces are placed above the bed, a table lamp is used to illuminate the desktop in the evening
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