Lighting Terms for New Kitchen Lighting Planning


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Task Lighting:
Lighting designed to illuminate a certain area or provide lighting for a particular task (task lighting). Task lighting may include reading, chopping vegetables, or overhead cooking lights.

Tone: Commonly used with painting colors of a room. The lightness or darkness of a color. The tone of a room may determine your lighting selection.

Under-cabinet lighting fixtures: These light fixtures are installed under wall cabinets (Wall Units) as a form of task lighting.

Xenon bulb: A light bulb which is like the halogen light bulb, except that this bulb is filled with xenon gas vs halogen gas. An Xenon bulb does not emit ultraviolet rays. An Xenon bulb is also cooler when lighting and more energy efficient than the halogen light bulbs.

Lighting Terms: Summary
Accent Lighting: Accents
Back Lighting: Light behind an object
Lite: Window Pane Section
Florescent lamp: Energy efficient light type
Halogen bulb: Uses Halogen gas
Incandescent lamp: Current makes filament glow
Low Voltage lighting: 12 to 50 Voltage lights vs 120 volts
Recessed Lighting: Can Lighting inside of ceiling
Task Lighting: Lighting for certain task
Tone: degree of lightness in room's color
Divided-light window: Multiple glass panes
Xenon bulb: Light bulb like halogen with Xenon gas

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