Features coverage of the hallway

Olga Prudnikova Light - is the number one issue in the interior of the room. If the light in the apartment is not only functional but also decorative, and then lighting the hall should be built on the same principle. In the hallway, as a fully fledged part of the interior, should be several groups of fixtures: ceiling, the floor, on walls, above the mirror. So depending on the mood include a lamp, or five, or twenty. Tatyana Voronina, architect Hall has two clear delineation of functions: on the one hand, it is strictly utilitarian room, where you can tidy himself up, with another - as the beginning of the house, psychological threshold between the street bustle and homey feel, it creates a certain emotional state. Apart from the fact that the situation hallway should be as convenient, it is necessary that its interior provides a conducive atmosphere for a quick and easy transition from the state of business activity to remain calm and relaxation. One of the features of the hallway lighting is that light it is most often absent. And so, whatever the time, we have to use lights. Moreover, if the day of the neighboring areas are well lit by the sun, it is desirable that the light in the hallway was the most intense. The first and most important rule - a vestibule should be brightly lit. In addition, the amount of light must match brightness of adjacent premises in the daytime and at night. Indeed, despite the fact that staying in the hallway is usually short, sharp changing light on the transition to other rooms, "knocks" vision and interfere with free orientation in space. Scanty light interferes see the interior, and although it can be used to hide some flaws finishing better to illuminate the hallway as it should. The fact is that even a short stay in a dark hallway can adversely affect the overall impression of the apartment. Literate, soft lighting and friendly, in contrast, already at the threshold relaxes and adjusts to open communication with home. As an experiment, try in their hallway to supply all lighting lamps maximum capacity - then you probably do not want to save electricity here. If the hall is not closed off and travel through it is connected not only with the arrival and departure from home, but the transition from the apartment in an apartment, you must provide an additional fixture for orienting constant illumination. They can be any decorative lamp, even the desktop, if it has a place. In the haunted hallway as additional lighting, you can use the principle of the second light, penetrating from the adjacent room through glass doors or glazed surfaces of the walls. In such a situation proven themselves partitions with glass blocks. In the win will always be someone who knows what this stuff is not only decorative, but also and above all, functional! Sometimes it is expedient to equip the hall lights, which are not governed by traditional circuit-breakers, and special switches are based on sensors that are sensitive to motion or heat. Convenience of their lies in the fact that the inclusion of light occurs automatically when a sensor in the field of rights. The sensing element properly installed switch operates at a certain height, so the movement of domestic animals will not respond. Lighting and configuration I believe that in the hallway should be a lot of light, because, as a rule, the sun does not look back, and control its appearance requires good lighting. But the light in the hallway should not irritate and hit in the eye. I, for example, burn two halogen lamps of 300 watts - that's quite enough, and the light will not tire, since the hall has a short-lived. Fixtures located on the wall, the light from them is directed to the smooth white ceiling and spread around the room is already reflected. Lighting with more than enough to consider myself in the mirror and find the necessary things in the numerous built-in cabinets. For convenience in the hall can be put automation to not approach each time to the switch: entered - the light came on, retired - after 40 seconds the lights went out. Edward Grabowski, an expert on interior hallway on the project do not always provide a spacious room. Moreover, its shape is often unsuccessful: either it is too elongated, narrow, and excessively high or too tight. And even if enough space in the hallway, the walls are often broken up the same type of doorways or monotonous and empty. Monotonous wall surface hallway sometimes try to decorate the pictures, arrange decorative niches or ledges, but failed proportions correct a variety of structural elements such as arches or tracery walls. This is certainly beautiful, but sometimes you can do more simple and at the same time, the original equipment - have recourse to light. Light is able to perform miracles: a small room becomes more spacious-looking, narrow - is expanding, and illuminated the distant corners look more attractive. The correction of a narrow, elongated in the length of the hallway is usually enjoyed receiving intense illumination of the walls. For devices such lighting is used distributed around the room powerful sources, the light beams are directed to the walls. A large amount of light reflected from the top of the walls and partly from the ceiling, the illusion dissolves the surface. Lamps can be placed in the ceiling and the walls, most importantly, that their beams were directed into the necessary point of the interior. If too high altitude areas for correction, you can use wall or ceiling light with adjustable angle. The light should be directed strictly to the walls, the ceiling in this case remains in the shadows and visual decline. In geometrically complex buildings, having regard to the shape of a polygon, resorted to the light zoning. Rotations and crannies, "lit from different angles varied light sources are interesting, decorative islands on the way into the depths of the living space. Here you can not invent anything special: easy light wall murals, miniature wall near the small mirror, compact chair in the neighborhood with narrow floor lamp - and the hall has already acquired its unique appearance. All these funds are used to create a variety of interiors, but mostly they are intended to balance the imbalances, to reduce disparities to the usual norm. But those who aspire to an unusual, effective solutions, we can recommend the use of light is not to hide, but rather to underscore and enhance reality. For example, to deepen the prospect of a long and narrow hallway possible through an even number of similar fixtures. Appropriate to equip the hall with two mutually independent, but complementary kinds of lighting: general and purely functional - for specific purposes. Hallways lights in the big house can be spacious and high, on two levels. In the same volume, as a rule, place the ladder. If the top rests against the roof of the hall, the ceiling can make a so-called lantern - roof window, which can be either very simple or quite complex configuration. From dawn to dusk from the lantern will gently flow in natural light, penetrating the farthest reaches of space. True, the evening still need additional coverage. Hallway in the apartments, usually has no windows. Here you can try to visually "open" a closed space by simulating light coming from the surface. For example, let along the perimeter of the hall cornice with hidden lights behind it. You can also build a transmissive light translucent ceiling with built-in lights behind him. There are also ready to design lighting fixtures to the effect of the lantern. Ceiling light fixtures with directional beam of direct light downwards, so even with a low ceiling, functionally contraindicated in narrow hallways! Applying spotlights, use only models with adjustable angle and groups them along the walls. The vast center of the hallway ceiling is recommended to place the scattering light. Conductive objects and lighting in the conductive structures are represented today in a variety of ways. Hallway is recommended to choose closed, uniformly light-scattering model. In an extreme case, the light should be as distracted by downwards, direct light can be reflected from the ceiling and upper walls. Wall lamp is best suited for this category of the hallway lights. Sconces are equally suitable for both low and for very high buildings. The main requirement for the use of wall fixtures for general lighting - the rays in any case should not fall into the eye. Everything else is quite acceptable: the light can literally spread along the walls, even down to the sides, although the main area - the upper part of the walls and ceiling. The closer to the wall is light, so care must be executed finish - side light "raises" the texture and brings out the slightest flaws. In most cases, in an interior hallway may be appropriate wall lights, built into the walls. Such structures are reminiscent of portholes, and create in a room other than a favorable light, the effect of mystery and secrecy. If the form of wall lights can be very diverse, the requirements for their installation - quite rigorous and unambiguous. Recommended mounting height range is about two meters, so that the light is concentrated in the area just above human height. Although in special cases when required strong effects, lighting can be somewhat lower to the floor or raise the ceiling. Local light lamps at the mirror can be attached not only to the wall, a mirror surface - a great place for mounting fixtures. In this case, the number of fixtures will be doubled, but the lighting does not increase, but only differently distributed in space. Whatever we talked about the aesthetic side of the hallway to the house it is, above all, utilitarian area - cloakroom, assuming the presence of storage for outdoor clothing and mirrors. These sites require special working lights. In order to give himself up before leaving home or on the return must be fairly bright lighting. In a small area of ??the hall is well placed in the area of ??the mirror light can simultaneously perform the functions of general illumination. In the spacious hall lighted mirror is a single functional role, and merely adds to the basic orientation light. Mirror in the hall must be large to reflect the rights in full growth, and conveniently located so you can look at it from afar. But all this makes sense only when the ground near the mirror properly illuminated. The light in the mirror zone is formed by local sources. A person should see well reflected not experience discomfort, so that the light should be directed to the mirror evenly, without creating shadows. In the area of ??the mirror is recommended maximum illumination, but light output in any case should not interfere with a person to see their reflection. The points are determined by the location of lamps mirrors. The best place is the upper part of the mirror frame, if it is located no higher than two meters from the floor. Very high mirror cover is usually a pair of symmetrically placed lamps and approximately two meters from the floor. Since the light near the mirror belongs to the category of worker, the choice of lighting are critical of their technical parameters, fine same quality fade into the background. It is best to focus on simple forms of lighting fixtures, which emit too harsh ambient light. He may be right, but in this case, it is important that the light flux does not intersect with the view looking in the mirror. The mirror can be placed on the wall separately, although often it is also a door cupboard. In this case, lighting can be arranged through the cornice, recessed light fixtures equipped with an adjustable angle or light sources for flexible flexible arm. The same applies to the mirror doors, above which have a lamp on an elongated base with two or three movable light sources. Olga Prudnikova