How to light the entrance of the house and make it cosy

How best to light the entrance to the house to give an immediate feeling of comfort and style? Sometimes the entrance of the house is probably the most complicated space to design and furnish: often the furniture of this environment is left to chance and when you decide to intervene in the design of your home, you leave the entrance last and give priority to the other rooms.

To understand how important it is to pay attention to the furnishing of the entrance of the house, just think that there is nothing worse than being in a dark and bare entrance, where the lighting is not properly designed or is insufficient, or even totally absent.

Here is everything you need to know to complete the lighting of the entrance to your home in the best possible way.

The importance of light and lighting for an interior entrance hall

Light is of fundamental importance for all the rooms in the house and not least for the entrance area. A careful and accurate design of artificial light for one's own living spaces has multiple objectives.

First of all an accurate lighting design has the aim of not excessively flattening the spaces, creating the right symmetry between light and shadow. In interior design, light must always be conceived as a tool capable of enhancing and exalting the style that characterizes every environment. In a space the presence of shadows is as important as the presence of light itself: to give a practical example, in a corridor the unequal lighting of the walls will reduce the dazzling effect and give the feeling of being in larger spaces.

Another objective of an accurate lighting design is to make one's own spaces as liveable as possible. In this regard, every light must be specially designed and conceived to create the right scenario, suitable for a particular activity to be carried out during the day.

A calibrated lighting project must never and in no way dazzle; just think how annoying it can be to eat in the presence of a dazzling or too intense light.

Light should be a useful tool to create harmony in one's spaces and avoid chaos. Light must in a certain sense become the great protagonist of a space, without however stealing the scene.

Finally, artificial light must never pretend to imitate natural sunlight. It is always good to leave the two sources of illumination clearly separated. As well as being benevolent and healthy, sunlight is also characterised by perfect colour rendering. It is therefore better to make the most of sunlight, without trying in vain to imitate its perfect colour rendering.

Various solutions for the lighting of the entrance hall

For the lighting of the entrance of the house, is it better to choose a table lamp or alternatively prefer the installation of spotlights, perhaps more suitable to enhance the entrance corridor? There are many solutions that can be taken into consideration to complete the lighting of the entrance of the house: each one can adapt to the different characteristics of its rooms (furnishing a small entrance is certainly different from furnishing a larger space, and still furnishing a square entrance is different from furnishing an entrance with a corridor).

Also for the space of the entrance of the house as far as lighting is concerned, natural light is always to be preferred, even if obviously it is not always possible to benefit from sunlight. For this reason it is necessary to study an artificial lighting method. Here are the main solutions we would like to recommend:

• Top lighting with the help of spotlights or, even better, LED ceiling lights, which are useful for illuminating the faces of guests at their entrance. Absolutely avoid central suspension as this solution can be annoying when passing through or opening the door. It is also important to consider that there are sometimes lowerings in the entrances.
• If your home entrance is large enough, in this case you can opt for a table lamp on the console or shelves. Alternatively you can opt for a floor lamp.
• If you like, you can choose decorative lighting with decorative lighting effects. If your home entrance is characterised by limited space, this type of lighting can be a solution that can give a "wow" effect with little.
• You can also opt for hidden lighting inside the wardrobes and furniture, useful when storing your coat or bag.
• If there is a mirror in your home entrance, our advice in this case is to direct the light so that the person is illuminated and not the mirror itself, thus avoiding the presence of annoying glare.

Additional important tips for lighting the entrance of the house

When lighting the entrance of the house we must always consider the fact that the moment we open the door our rooms begin to express themselves and communicate feelings, character and personality. The attention in this case is undoubtedly directed to the human aspect and side. It is very important that the lighting of people's faces is done with the help of a not excessively intense diffused light.

Light must be conceived as a real furnishing element, able to enhance and emphasize what is beautiful in one's own spaces.

Obviously it is important in the choice of lights, never exaggerate with power and intensity: the corridor of your home entrance is not a tunnel on the motorway in which light must represent a predominant element. So avoid the installation of equidistant rain lights and prefer lights set near a wall, perhaps installed in pairs: in this way you will develop an asymmetrical light that will avoid glare and give you the feeling of being inside a larger room.

Finally, when designing the lighting for your entrance to your home, you should always pay the utmost attention to the intensity of the light: normally entrances do not enjoy the presence of an important source of natural light and for this reason it will be necessary to illuminate your space even during the hours of the day. The best solution is to install several lighting points with separate controls or lights in which you can adjust the intensity.