Ideas to give good lighting to a corridor and make it clearer

The hall and the corridor are usually the darkest areas of a house. However, these are usually the first spaces you walk through when you get home and also when guests arrive.

All good lighting in a room consists of three elements, and this also applies to foyers and corridors. The general lighting on the ceiling is responsible for providing a basic brightness.

Then, the areas where we solve punctual questions require additional light. In the hallway, this applies in front of the mirror and in the cloakroom. The German portal Lichet.de recommends, for example, place two side lights.

And the third element is accent lighting, which brings pictures or other decorative objects, as well as furniture, into focus. As suggested by the portal Licht.de, this can be achieved by a table lamp on a chest of drawers or a discreet LED strip on the shoe shelf.

A practical recommendation from the experts is presence sensors for the entrance sector. And not only in front of the door on the outside, as is usually the case, but also inside the lobby.

Because when you come home with purchases and children in your arms, for example, you usually do not have a free hand to activate the light switch. Another alternative is lights that can be controlled remotely by smartphone, shortly before returning home.

More welcoming hallways and hallways

It is not easy to fill corridors with life, often tubular, small and without windows. Light is one of the central elements to achieve this. Warm white lights make the hallway and entry area look more inviting.

This lighting can be found in stores, with the help of the kelvin specifications that are on the packaging. Values ​​below 3,300 kelvin (K) indicate that the lamp’s color temperature is warm white, values ​​between 3,300 and 5,300 kelvin refer to neutral white, and values ​​above 5,300 kelvin refer to daylight white.

Light directed at the ceiling or walls can make the room appear larger. Lighting experts advise using ceiling or wall lights that cast as much light as possible upwards or to the sides. Likewise, Licht.de recommends using bright and pleasant colors in small hallways.