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Good lighting will enable you to highlight the architecture of your space, your interior design scheme, as well as creating a mood and ambiance within your home. As with most areas of interior design, there are uber cheap and insanely expensive ways in which you can alter the lighting in your home. So, whatever route you choose, remember to have fun, be creative and incorporate a sense of your own personal style into the mix. Lighting is a critical feature in the kitchen, with all of us needing essential task and accent lighting to create defined zones for cooking and relaxing. Principally, task lighting provides a greater concentration of light, which is best positioned amid highly used areas of the kitchen: typically over a sink, cooker and work surface to ensure full illumination. I also find under-cabinet lighting is an efficient way to quickly and easily illuminate your worktop, as it evenly distributes the light across the area below without unsightly wires and switches. Task lighting under wall-hung cabinets will reflect light onto the work surface which will aid with food preparation. Plus, convenience lighting such as in-drawer and in-cabinet lighting will also make your kitchen more user-friendly. Try to balance bright task lighting with soft mood lighting, as this will create an accent in the room and separate the work area from the more social areas of the kitchen. If you enjoy entertaining and hold regular dinner parties, then mood lighting will allow you to create a more intimate ambiance. Accent lighting, like spot lights, dramatic pendant lights grouped together over a central island or recessed lighting that highlights a display cabinet or dark void, are all ways you can change a clinical work space into a comfortable and aesthetically beautiful kitchen. For free lighting advice give us a call on 01992 252 900, or drop us an email support@inspyerlighting.co.uk Inspyer Lighting Design

Whenever you’re in the kitchen, you’re usually using your worktops. Nowadays, there’s a great range of materials on offer: smooth stainless steel, classy Quartz, luxury marble and many more. We’ve selected a few of the Nation’s favourites and are keen to know, which worktop would you choose?

Best to shop around, the mark up some showrooms put on worktops is outrageous, especially for solid surfaces like granite and quartz etc. I prefer quartz for worktops as there's such a wide range of colours to choose from but always choose a quality brand name as recently some of the cheap imports have been found to be not food safe. For durability and stain resistance have a look at http://www.fitzgeraldsinteriors.co.uk/which-worktop.html these test were done before products like dekton and solid laminates were popular though.