How do you illuminate a kitchen stovetop? Discover the useful tips to follow and some ideas with Karman lamps to take inspiration from.
The kitchen is the hub of the house. It is the place where livability and functionality play a leading role.
This room can act as a meeting place where family and friends spend time together, especially if it’s an open space. It has numerous workstations for meal preparation, and therefore requires adequate lighting to allow for good visibility.
In particular, the stovetop needs functional gradations of task lighting, or intense and direct lighting that is able to ensure maximum visual comfort.
Also, in this case, as with any lighting project, light is a precious element used to make an immediate style statement: selecting lamps capable of combining technique and aesthetics may turn out to be an original and effective lighting design solution.
In this article, we will help you discover how to illuminate a stovetop, both at home and in a restaurant, and also provide good suggestions for the use of Karman designer lamps. In particular, we will take a look at:
- How do you illuminate a stovetop? Home cooking tips
- Which type of lamp should you choose to illuminate a stovetop?
- Style and functionality: illuminate a stove top with Karman
- How to illuminate an outdoor kitchen
- How to illuminate a restaurant kitchen
- Karman’s solutions to illuminate a stovetop
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How do you illuminate a stovetop? Home cooking tips
To illuminate a stovetop and create the right atmosphere through light, it is important to follow the right advice.
It is necessary to select the most suitable solution or solutions for the location’s mood that can above all guarantee optimal lighting for the kitchen’s task area.
Before making a choice between the various options and the different models of lamps several factors should be taken into consideration and evaluated.
It is very important to avoid making mistakes in terms of space and the size of the lamps, but also in terms of color and placement. Here are some interesting tips to follow when choosing stovetop lighting:
- Accurately evaluate the configuration of the kitchen and the height of the ceiling;
- Identify the most suitable positioning of the light points: the lighting must find continuity in every space of the kitchen. The solution? Install one or more lamps above the central island;
- Choose the right color temperature to determine the right visibility. Advice? Opt for a cold and stimulating gradation;
- Calculate the lumens needed for the kitchen, based on the surface to be illuminated and the intensity of the light;
- Match the lighting with the furnishing style to increase the kitchen’s aesthetic impact
Once the configuration of the cooking area and the height of the ceiling have been evaluated, you can select the most suitable lamp models for the context.
Which type of lamp should you choose to illuminate a stovetop?
There are different models of lamps to choose from for the stovetop based on the factors listed above.
If the lighting design project requires the illumination of a stovetop in an L-shaped kitchen with a high ceiling, the winning choice could be to install suspension lamps.
In this way, a gap of up to 80 cm between the ceiling and the stovetop would be filled, introducing an ideal decorative element and providing optimal lighting.
In glass, ceramic, metal, or fiberglass, with reinterpretations of classic shapes or shapes with a bold design, suspension lamps can be replaced by ceiling lamps or spotlights, based on the style of the location and the size of the workstation.
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Suspension lamps, ceiling lamps, or spotlights?
Suspension lamps are perfect for illuminating the stovetop, creating a focus of attention on this area of the room.
When an island or a peninsula is present in the kitchen, it undoubtedly deserves to be valued as the true protagonists of the room.
In combination with the suspensions or exclusively, for those who prefer a "cleaner" style, spotlights are also extremely functional, external or built-in as well as the lights integrated in the hood.
However, to illuminate the stovetop in a small kitchen, the most common solution is spotlights. They guarantee lots of uniform light without cluttering and without taking up space, risking making the room appear even smaller.
For those who do not want to give up adding elements that are also decorative and therefore able to embellish the environment, you can opt for ceiling lamps to which you can combine, if necessary, wall lamps.
Style and functionality: illuminate a stovetop with Karman
As mentioned earlier, the lighting in the kitchen is a fundamental element that affects the mood and atmosphere. Installing adequate stovetop lighting is also essential for health and safety, as you often have to deal with sharp objects and flames.
Lighting can also contribute to the overall aesthetics of the room, highlighting certain design elements.
Karman designer lamps represent the perfect synthesis between decorative lighting and technical lighting. For this reason, they are perfect for giving functional light to the stovetop, without sacrificing a touch of style.
Here are some examples of lamps created by Karman designers that are perfect for illuminating the cooking area.
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The charm of Gangster
Gangster is a ceramic suspension with a total white external structure, while, for the interior, you can choose between white and glossy bronze.
Designed by Matteo Ugolini, this lamp stands out thanks to its retro style and is available in different formats to be combined together to create the most varied combinations.
The simple but elegant profile, with round, decisive lines, makes it perfect for illuminating a stovetop in the most disparate contexts: from vintage to industrial style.
The Gangster lamp combines design and functionality, as it furnishes spaces, bringing an added aesthetic value to the kitchen, and gives directional brightness to the workstation.
Gangster
Sahara: lamp with a sculptural shape
Sahara is a suspension lamp, designed by Matteo Ugolini, with an external ceramic structure available in two colors and in no less than four different sizes and shapes.
The Sahara suspension lamp fits into the kitchen environment with innate refinement and is able to illuminate the stovetop with direct and intense light.
The lampshade, with its imposing and evocative shape, is inspired by the typical shapes of cacti, silent inhabitants of the scorching sandy expanses of the Sahara, where it gets its name from.
The lamp is available in two colors, white and emerald green ceramic, and can definitely make a difference in the overall cooking experience.
Sahara
The unmistakable industrial style of Mek
The Mek suspension lamp serves as a light point of reference in the kitchen, ideal for illuminating a stovetop optimally and in a refined way.
It is one of the suspension lamps with an industrial style by Karman that, in its simplicity, has a unique and original decorative potential.
Designed by Bizzarri Design Studio in Pesaro, it is available in different solutions united by the same structure divided into three superimposed mechanical rings of different diameters.
The decisive lines that outline the profile of the Mek suspension lamp echo the shapes of industrial-style finishes. The lamp is available in matte black ceramic, matte white ceramic, and white and bronze ceramic.
Mek
Nando: essentiality and great aesthetic performance
The Nando suspension lamp takes its name from Ferdinando Innocenti, entrepreneur remembered for being the inventor of the scaffolding system.
It is no coincidence that the lamp, created by Italian designers Luca De Bona and Dario De Meo, has a structure made up of a metal joint and a micro-perforated tubular, available in gold, black, or white.
These are the main structural features that make this suspension a design element with a sober and at the same time refined look.
The Nando suspension lamp introduces focal points of intense and energetic light that stands out in the center of the kitchen and illuminates the stovetop from above.
Nando
How to illuminate an outdoor kitchen
When the temperatures get milder, those lucky enough to have an outdoor kitchen will certainly want to use it to welcome their guests. Also, in this case, the choice of lighting must be extremely accurate.
It will obviously be essential to opt for specific lamps for the outdoors that are able to withstand atmospheric agents, without sacrificing style and elegance.
Suspension lamps also represent an undoubted decorative element with a great scenic impact for the illumination of a stovetop in an outdoor kitchen.
An example? Black Out, in white or transparent fiberglass filament which, in addition to illuminating the activities, will create an extremely intimate and romantic atmosphere.
In addition, to be able to prepare dishes in complete safety, it could also be useful to install spotlights. They would provide intense and direct light to illuminate, for example, the grill.
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How to illuminate a restaurant kitchen
When it comes to the lighting design of a restaurant, in addition to trying to create the right atmosphere, there is another important operation to be carried out with regard to the kitchen. It is necessary to adopt additional precautions related to compliance with the reference legislation on the lighting of workplaces.
UNI EN 12464-1 analyzes habitual visual tasks, highlighting the need for visual comfort and providing indications on the maximum degree of glare necessary for the various visual performances. According to the legislation, correct lighting must satisfy the needs of visual comfort, and allow tasks and activities to be carried out in maximum safety.
In particular, regarding the illumination of a stovetop in a restaurant kitchen, the law indicates an average illuminance of no less than 500 lux.
The chef and his team have to perform delicate operations, where they use many tools that are potentially dangerous to their health.
Furthermore, the right lighting will give those working in the kitchen a realistic view of the ingredients and colors of the dishes. If you use the wrong lamp or incorrectly arrange them, there is a risk of compromising the final result and what will then be served to customers.
Karman's solutions to illuminate a stovetop
We have seen how illuminating a stovetop requires the right mix of technique and aesthetics.
In this way, the cooking area will be equipped not only with adequate task lighting but also distinctive elements that should absolutely be highlighted. Therefore, lighting in the kitchen plays a crucial role in the safety, atmosphere, functionality, and aesthetics of the room.
Karman’s decorative lamps always manage to guarantee functional lighting with an unmistakable creative design in any context: whether it is an indoor kitchen or an outdoor kitchen or the illumination of the stovetop in a restaurant.
Choosing Karman lamps means offering the right solution for every lighting project, both from a functional and stylistic point of view, making every room, private or contract, unique.
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