Tips to Improve Your Home Lighting With Led Pot Lights

Home is a specific environment that is more than just a resting place. It needs a setup that depicts your style statement. The lighting scheme of any home interior is of specific importance because it enhances any interior layout.  

LED Pot lights are a modern innovation in the lighting industry. They are designed for both new and old homes. Pot lights are small light fixtures that sit right inside the ceiling and shed light on the surroundings. 

The fixture itself is not visible except the trim, which flushes against the ceiling, which is where they got the name’ recessed lights’ as the light fixture recess into the top. These are quite a versatile lighting tech that enhances the decor from boring to engaging within a few flicks of switches.

Here are a few tips to improve your home  lighting with LED recessed/pot lights:

Choose the housing design 

The housing of a pot light fixture is the most crucial part of the fixture. It is available in several designs based on the type of ceiling. The housing of a recessed fixture is for both old and modern roofs. 

The housing of the recessed light fixture is designed for different types of ceilings:

Remodeled ceiling:

Retrofit pot light kits have housing specific for remodelled ceilings; such ceilings do not have inherent space for pot light fixtures. Instead, they are renovated for recessed lights. 

New construction: 

The new construction ceiling has inherent cut out space for recessed light fixtures, taking into account all the specific space requirement for more ceiling space above. 

IC rated: 

IC rated (Insulation contact) housing is the type of recessed light housing connected with the insulation.  

Non-IC rated:

Non-IC rated housing is the type of housing for no insulation contact. 

Choose the trim according to the ceiling 

The trim of the pot light fixture is the outermost visible part of the fixture. It is flushed with the ceiling, so it must complement both the ceiling’s colour and design.  The trims are available in various techniques, and they alter the light coming from the fixture according to the interior’s design needs. 

This feature makes pot lights even more stylish and versatile and allows easy execution of a number of lighting techniques as per the room’s layout. 

Design a light layout

This is a very crucial factor in the installation of LED recessed lighting. These small fixtures can illuminate an entire room in specific ways when placed strategically. The strategy determines the improvement in light layout. Traditional light setups for general lighting are quite dull, they fix in one place, and there’s not much you can do about it except when you refurbish the entire area and replace them entirely with pot lights. 

Similarly, pot lights allow one-time installation to get the best result. This is a risky task and leaves no space for impromptu installation. 

A properly planned light layout is consequential to perfect lighting for any room,  as the light from these fixtures, if placed incorrectly, obstructs the entire structure, which ruins the look. 

Layer the light

Light layering can be done in several ways. This is where the trim designs come into play. The light can be layered in three different ways: 

1. General lighting:

General lighting or general illumination. Recessed light fixtures are relatively small, the usual size being between 2-6 inches. These lights are native to shorter ceiling heights ranging from 8ft to more. 

The fixture size is determined according to ceiling height, and the placement of fixtures is always central to each other, and the fixture size determines the distance. 

2. Accent lighting:

Accent lighting accentuates a specific area or corner of a room and highlights any interest points within a space. There are various accenting trims available with pot lights, and they aim the light in your desired direction and amount.  

3. Task lighting:

Task lighting is focused on overhead lighting for places specified to carry out tasks such as study corners, tabletops etc. Light from a tight beam is concentrated over a small area dedicated to carrying out assignments. 

Conclusion: 

All three layers can create an illuminative layout specific to any room in the house, be it a living room, bedroom, kitchen, washroom, corridor etc. 

Recessed lights are essentially in style because they are super integrative and work best, especially in small spaces. They create more overhead space as they illuminate the room and occupy no visible space below the ceiling. These lights mainly come under functional lighting because they can be customized to create innovative lighting designs. Considering these aspects, one can considerably improve a home interior’s entire layout by using LED recessed lighting.