Kitchens are the single most challenging
rooms to light. No other
room serves so many functions —
from basic food preparation to
evening entertaining. Often we
don't know if a kitchen lighting
scheme will work until the end of a
project, yet all our efforts hinge on
this last crucial step. Good lighting
will show off your work, while dismal
lighting can sour the customer's
appreciation of an otherwise nice
kitchen.
Most of the up-front work of
lighting a kitchen is knowing what
lamps to spec and where to place
them. This is usually more complicated
than in other rooms, which
are used for only one type of activity.
In a kitchen you need three different
kinds of lighting —