Backlight wardrobe: the main features of the main options

Closets for many years confirmed the convenience and efficiency of their use and their rightful place in almost every apartment. However, the depth of the cabinet, where the folded or hanging clothes, often require additional coverage to find the right thing, or vice versa, without disturbing the peace of households, to highlight only one shelf or section. To do this, it's best to use the backlight. In this case, you must clearly understand the purpose for which it is mounted.

Advantages backlight closet and disadvantages

Before talking about the pros and cons of highlighting cabinets, for those who wish to install it, you need to understand the need for it. It is clear that the placement of lighting along the outer edge of furniture no functional role to play will not, and will remain a decorative design. No need for it and if the depth of the cabinet is small, and all manipulations of things can be done without additional illumination.

Among the advantages that gives light wardrobe, it is worth noting the following:

• It does not take up a lot of space;
• It creates a unique flavor in the room;
• It provides convenience when searching for things or placing them on the shelves;
• saves time;
• It provides an opportunity to highlight precisely the area in which there are things instead of using other lighting fixtures.

Another advantage can be regarded as an opportunity to assemble lighting. In addition, it is necessary to take into account that the internal lighting allows to maintain order in cabinets and on time to spend Cleaning: Remove the cobwebs to dust or time to detect mold or fungus on the inside surface of the cabinet.

As for the disadvantages, there is the difficulty of lighting control.

Types of lighting: the pros and cons of options

For indoor lighting furniture does not fit all the lights. For the convenience of their use, preference is given to two types of lamps: overhead and built. The most popular steel halogen and LED lighting products.

Type of lighting	pros	Minuses
halogen	Increased light output. Evenly distributes light, brightness preserving during the whole period of lighting operation of the device. Compact design. The high degree of security.	Very hot, flammable. Durability is low. React to voltage fluctuations. The service life is relatively small.
fluorescent	It does not heat up. High luminous efficiency. Long service life. Brightness without blinding the eyes. Different color composition.	Limited power with considerable sizes. The complexity of the connection. Dependence on the outside temperature.
LED	Slight heating. Energy savings. Durability. Fire and environmental safety.	The relative high cost. Do not give the scattered light. We need expensive switching power supplies.
LED Strip Light	Any configuration is possible. Easy to install. High reliability. It operates on low voltage Safe.	Weak ability to reproduce colors. The need to connect the power supplies.

On that particular look for when choosing lamps and fixtures

When choosing lighting you need to consider a number of features to help you choose the "right", the one that will decorate the apartment.

1. Important to consider features of the room, where they will be installed. If the interior is decorated, the lighting and lamps are selected based on an existing design so that they are organically fit into it.
2. Do not forget about the accounting area and the illumination of the room: for small rooms unacceptable luxury huge chandeliers or cascades lamps hanging from the ceiling: they visually make the room more smaller. As ridiculous in a huge room with a high ceiling will look like a modest little lamp.
3. Particular attention should be paid to the selection of lamps:

• their power;
• energy savings;
• brightness;
• color solutions.

1. It is important to determine the price of the purchased products, by setting a specific "price corridor", in which will be the choice of the fixture.

When choosing a lamp or luminaire should proceed from the possibilities of the family budget, rationality, aesthetics and quality.

What is special illumination of kitchen units, and how it is applied in the interior?

Today, for the illumination of furniture various sources are used in the kitchen: halogen, fluorescent and LED lamps and LED strip, with more and more it is the last preference.

The tape is a different size and density, in addition, must take into account:

• color LEDs, presented in a wide range of shades; in some cases, the brightness can be adjusted;
• If the kitchen furniture of dark tones, lights under the bottom hinged shelves and cabinets accentuate the elegance and refined taste of the interior;
• correctly chosen lighting will perform its direct functional and will look great as a decoration of the kitchen units;
• brings a certain flavor to the clearance spaces where installed in kitchen furniture, top illumination and bottom wall cabinets.

Selection and erection of their own hands

Before you begin to install the backlight closet, you must, of course, choose the most suitable variant of the backlight. Practice shows that the most appropriate source of light wardrobes are fluorescent and LED lamps or LED strip. They ensure the safety of their use, energy savings and feature low installation complexity. But the simplest and most rational way is the installation of lighting furniture LED strip. It is necessary to take into account:

• acceptable length of tape;
• lighting solution;
• the need to purchase 12W power supply.

Making LED tape, in addition to the advantages indicated, to determine another advantage: there is no need to spoil the surface of the furniture to install it.

Despite the fact that the installation of the light source does not require serious skills in working with electricity, it does not mean that they are not needed at all. Therefore, if the owner does not "friends" with the technique, it is best to seek help from a specialist.

However, if you want you can master even the most difficult moments, and the installation of LED strip is not.

Mounted tape follows.

1. In setting the appropriate place tape is attached or a small plastic corner plinth, which is fastened by means of "liquid nail".
   

   Or skirting trunking for installing LED strip

2. Through corners routed and secured to them the tape.
   

   Diode strip in aluminum profile for the illumination design furniture or ceiling

3. Since it is removed covering the adhesive layer and is adhered to the surface.
4. With polarity lights attached to a power source (for some, this action can be the most difficult). Nevertheless, for most of its connection is not difficult, if you carefully read the installation instructions.

1. The switch can be mounted on the backlight side surface or under the shelf. The power supply is better positioned at the top: it is convenient and safe.
   

   Accommodation illumination switch on the side wall of the enclosure

1. In order not to spoil the look of the furniture and protect households from trouble, care must be taken to hide wires and cable.

Formation of an interior apartment with backlight bring in its design originality, mark the taste preferences of the owners and their desire to live in comfort and beauty.

Video: illuminate cabinet LED strip in aluminum profile with their own hands