Lamps for living room and dining room

How to choose lamps for living room and dining room?

Lamps for living room combined with dining room or kitchen is a river topic! Both designers and users of contemporary spaces are well aware that a single lamp hung centrally in a room serves neither the interior nor its occupants. After all, lighting should not only brighten up the interior, but also help its occupants to work, create a mood, conquer styling, make everyday life easier and more pleasant. Moreover, with large, open spaces - such as a living room connected to the dining room or to the kitchen, spaces that have more than one function and that accommodate more than one zone, the lighting should match and complement each other both functionally and stylistically.

Lamps for living room and dining room, and the principles of lighting the space

If you are looking for lamps for the living room and dining room and want to approach the subject professionally, you need to consider some basic lighting principles:

• Remember to layer your light sources. One of the basic principles of interior lighting is the principle of layered lighting, that is, where light sources are present at all "heights" of the room. In practice, this means that the interior should include both ceiling lighting and wall lamps, table lamps and floor lamps. By adhering to this principle, you will not only perfectly illuminate the interior, but also emphasize its design and create a friendly atmosphere.
• When choosing lamps, consider all zones in the interior. When designing your living room lighting, consider how you will spend your time in it. Will the living room be used exclusively for watching TV and relaxing? Or maybe in the living room you are also planning a work corner, a place where you will indulge in reading, a dining table? Each zone requires different lighting and a different type of lamp.
• Make sure that the lamps you choose fulfill three basic roles of lighting: brighten up the interior after dark, highlight selected places, furniture or decorations, and create a moody atmosphere.
• Light up every corner of the room. When designing the lighting of your interior, plan it to illuminate all its nooks and crannies, so that no corner of the room is left in darkness. This is especially important when you want to optically enlarge the space and look impressive.
• Ensure proper design and installation taking into account any kind of lighting - make sure sockets, cables and switches are in place.
• Choose the right size of lamps. When choosing specific lamp designs for your living room, pay attention that they are not too small. Shades that are too small are a common mistake that causes the lamp to disappear into the living room space or insufficiently illuminate it. So when in doubt, bet on the larger size!
• Treat your home as one space. Although we usually choose lamps for specific interiors and rooms, it is important to remember that your home should be stylistically a harmonious whole. Therefore, when buying light fixtures, keep in mind the atmosphere and style you want to achieve. All the lamps in the interior should match each other, and the lamps in the living room are often also visible from other places in the house - from the kitchen, dining room, hallway, and even from the very entrance. So ensure a perfect fit and uniform style!

Lamp for living room with dining room

If your living room has a dining area and a table where you eat your meals, it is worth, in addition to the upper lighting of the lounge area, also illuminate this part with a ceiling lamp - preferably one that will make your eating time pass in a warm, friendly atmosphere. The shape of the lamp over the table is best matched to the shape of the tabletop, of which read more in the article HERE. In short, if your table is round, choose a lamp with a single spherical shade. If your countertop is square, go for geometric shapes or a lamp in the shape of an inverted bowl. A larger, oblong table, on the other hand, is the perfect opportunity to choose a spectacular lamp with multiple shades, several identical lamps arranged symmetrically over the tabletop, or a triple lamp on a ceiling bar.

Among Kaspa's favorite fixtures chosen to illuminate the dining table in the living room were cumulus pendant lamp with 14 or 8 round small shades. This lamp will look beautiful over any oblong dining table, and its vertical version will also illuminate a small round table, providing an extremely elegant setting for the dining area of your living room.

Another of our suggestions - for use individually or in a larger group - are pendant lamps from the Avia collection or Cloe. These lamps will be sensational in modern living rooms, and the wide range of lamps in the series (including lamps on a plate and ceiling strip, as well as standing lamps) will allow you to illuminate not only the dining area, but also the leisure area.

The most important issue is to match the style of lamps used in the lounge area of the living room and in the dining room or kitchen. Although they are separate zones there should be harmony between them. One way to achieve it is to use lamps from the same collection.

Lamps for living room with dining room - sets

A great way to maintain stylistic harmony in a living room combined with a dining room or kitchen is to choose sets of lamps - that is, lamps from the same collection. At Kaspa, we offer many complete lamp collections, which include both ceiling lamps (pendant lamps, chandeliers or plafonds) and table lamps and wall sconces. Similar shades, finishes, forms and colors, as well as the materials used, allow you to achieve exactly the same lighting effect in a larger space.

A good way to maintain consistency, for example, is to use sconces above the dining room table from the same collection as the ceiling lamp in the lounge area. You can also place a table lamp from the same collection on a buffet with china or a chest of drawers - it will create a cozy atmosphere conducive to shared meals and will be another element that ties the whole thing together

If your living room is connected to the kitchen and dining room, make sure that both ceiling lamps are of the same color and style, and that they share the same color and type of finish.

Lamps for the living room combined with the kitchen

Similarly, in the case of a living room combined with a kitchen. With such a room layout, when the kitchen area overlooks the living room, it is worth considering both practical and stylistic aspects. Often, while cooking or eating meals in the kitchen, we watch TV, and therefore, in order not to disturb the household members in following the plot of their favorite TV series, it is worth considering the use of a leisure areathis plafonds, ceiling spotlights lub low ceiling lamps.

If we want to use pendant ceiling lamps in both spaces, let's make sure that they come from the same collection of lamps or that they share the same design, forms or colors.

Living room lamp in the rest area

The lamp that lights up the lounge area in the living room is also one of its most important decorations. So when choosing this lamp, make sure that it matches the style in which the whole house or apartam is keptent, it was not too small and had "that something" about it that would best reflect the character of your space.

If you're looking for a modern lamp or one with a wow effect, check out our article titled "The Modern Lamp". "Modern pendant lamps for bold interiors". If you are looking for a lamp in the style of modern classics, bet on a contemporary form of chandelier - a ceiling lamp Astra for lower rooms, and lovers of Scandinavian climates are sure to find something for themselves in our guide "Which Scandinavian style lamp will fit your interior".

Looking for something industrial? Choose spotlights on rails or lamps with a loft character, and in the case of a kitchen open to the living room, choose such a lamp for the rest area that will connect the two spaces together.

A living room combined with a dining room is quite a stylistic challenge. However, we hope that by following the rules listed above, you will be able to create a warm and cohesive space conducive to relaxation and shared moments.