Lighting is essential to feel comfortable in your kitchen. It must be functional and decorative, creating a welcoming and practical space at all times of day.
There are four types of kitchen lighting:
General kitchen lighting: produced by wall and ceiling lights, decorative lights...
Eating area lighting: sideboard lightings, soft or indirect. They create a welcoming atmosphere.
Work area lighting: mostly direct and targeted lighting, often integrated or oriented LED.
Unit interior lighting adds elegance to the kitchen and is ideal to highlight your glass and transparent objects.
Little extras:
Why not choosing integrated LED or lighted backs ? Made to measure from the factory, they are nearly invisible and yet perfectly illuminate your worktop. Once seen, never forgotten!
Helpful advice: Light is sculpting space and can completely transform a room. Think about from the beginning of your kitchen project with the help of your designer. He's full of bright ideas to share.
The temperature of the colour
Choose lighting with a colour adapted to the use. The temperature of a colour is the apparent colour emitted by a light source. It is measured in Kelvins (°K).
Incandescent: 2,700°K (a warm yellow-reddish light).
Halogen: 3,200°K (hot white)
Fluorescent: variable according to the composition of the interior powder (3,000°K, 4,000°K, 6,000°K).
LED: variable according to the composition of the electronic component (3,000°K, 4,000°K, 6,000°K).
Warm lights have yellowish shade and are ideal for an ambient lighting (between 2 200 and 3 200°K).
Neutral lights are very close to natural daylight (between 3 200 et 5 000°K). It's the temperature chosen by Schmidt to equip your furniture, perfect for your worktop for example.
Cold light, has a bluish shade (more than 5 000°K). Ideal to light a way : corridor, stairs, garage...
Clever tip: when you choose an extractor hood, make sure it's colour temperature is the same as your furniture lighting.
Beautiful LED
Schmidt use LED lights due to their many advantages:
- Money-saving, they also respect the environement.
- Their exceptionnal longevity make them last 50 to 100 times more than a classic light bulb!
- They provide a powerful but pleasant light.
Light up your work area
Lighted backs
+ Functional:
an intense and uniform light that lights up your work surface perfectly.
+ Aesthetic:
create an elegant atmosphere thanks to the translucent glass inside your unit.
Built-in, illuminated profiles
+ Modern and Design:
Your work area is lit up by a discretely built-in profile.
Schmidt's idea: this light will create a trendy atmosphere in your kitchen from the interior of your unit.
Built-in or wall-mounted spotlights
LED spotlights: timeless elegance
+ Discreet:
Subtly incorporated in the unit.
+ Precise:
Perfect to prepare your meals under the best conditions and in complete safety.
Wall-mounted LED
+ Practical:
Easy to install and adjusting harmoniously to your interior.
+ Original:
The perfect decoration touch your kitchen needs.
Enhance the beauty of your kitchen
Strips and light bar LEDs to light drawer interiors
- Offer total visibility of your drawer interiors.
- Come on automatically when the unit is opened.
- Can be adapted to all unit widths, to the nearest mm.
Clever tip
Luminous shelf
- Aesthetic and modern design.
- A shelf and lighting at the same time.
- Atmospheric lighting that decorates the room.
Built-in LED strip
- Bespoke and perfectly coordinated with the kitchen.
- A discreet and elegant touch.
- Highlights ornamental objects and other utensils.