Lighting in the children's room directly affects the mood and health of the child. For the competent organization of light scenarios in the nursery, it is not enough just to hang a central, albeit funny, cartoon lamp.
Childhood for a person is the foundation of the foundations, the time when we get the most vivid impressions that affect our entire subsequent life. The conditions under which the child grows and develops, including housing conditions, play an important role here. Psychologists agree that the sooner a child has their own room, the better. Your own room is a dream object not only for children, but also for most adults!
The room for the baby is his special world where he grows, plays, learns, sleeps and makes his little discoveries. But what this room will be, adults decide after all. Parents need to understand that children are very impressionable and easily excitable, so the interior of a children's room, oversaturated with bright colors and a variety of their tones, as well as extravagant furniture, will not contribute to the successful emotional state of their child. The same principle can be applied to the lighting in the children's room. Do not overdo it! But the lack of light can also negatively affect the condition of the baby: he can mope for no apparent reason. The resistance of his body to stress, fatigue, physical and mental stress, of which the child has plenty, depends on the illumination. In addition, with the help of light, you can influence the life processes of your child, stimulate him to sleep or, conversely, to active activities.
What kind of light is needed in the children's room?
But to the question of psychological health, when choosing fixtures, two more important points are added: lighting in the child's room should not cause discomfort, overstrain or eye fatigue and, of course, lighting devices should be safe to use. Preservation of the cherished "one" vision of your child (and not only a child) directly depends on the quantity and quality of light in the room.
If you choose between artificial and natural lighting, then, of course, priority should be given to natural lighting. So, when choosing where you will still have a nursery, you should give preference
Rooms with windows facing east or southeast: in the morning, bright sunlight will help your baby to wake up easily and naturally and start his "kindergarten" or school day. A somewhat unnatural light regime is observed in rooms with windows facing west - in the morning there is twilight, and in the evening it is light. But often you don’t have to choose and you need to create beauty in the room that is. And if the sun in your nursery is not a frequent visitor, then it is precisely the well-chosen lighting in the nursery that will help save the situation. And the happy owners of sunny children's rooms also need to know the principles of competent artificial lighting, since it is still necessary in the evening.
The nursery is a multifunctional room, and when there are more than one children, especially. This is a bedroom and a playroom and a classroom. And all this in one room! For each of these processes, ideally, you need your own lighting, your own lamp. Space zoning is another function, in addition to lighting, as such, that lamps in a nursery can carry. The basic principle of children's lighting is as follows - a strong and indestructible union of general and local lighting. So the children's room should have:
- ceiling general lighting of the room;
Desktop lighting of the desktop (if the child is a schoolboy).
One without the other in the children's room has no right to exist. Here are some recommendations for arranging the main general lighting for a nursery:Sharp and contrasting transitions from light to shadow are unacceptable when the room is lit in places, as on a stage. This tires the baby's eyesight, he has to rebuild from bright light to twilight in a short period of time.
The bright light flooding everything around, as in an operating room, will unnerve the child, and from the twilight, so loved by adults tired after work, he will literally nod off.
You can calculate the recommended power of the main light source for your nursery, say a chandelier, in this way: you need to multiply the number of square meters of your nursery by 15 W - the lighting rate per 1 sq. meter. If the lamps are enclosed in white matte shades, then 20 watts. And if the walls in the room cannot be called light, then 25 watts.
Choosing a chandelier for the nursery
As a source of general illumination, a central luminaire of diffused light or light is needed,
reflected from the ceiling and well illuminating the center of the room - the main playground. It is desirable that it has a single, single, closed shape, in which the light sources are hidden by a ceiling, possibly made of plastic. Then, in the event of an unauthorized hit by an object on the lamp, glass hail will be excluded. Although older children approaching conscious adolescence can also hang a glass chandelier. A good idea, you see, in the style of floristry with beautiful roses for a young lady’s room, or massive glass, like an iceberg lamp floating on a stretch ceiling, like in the sea for a guy.
The use of chandeliers in children's rooms with the use of crystal and glass faceted decorative elements, which give a lot of reflections, is very controversial. An interesting idea for general lighting in the nursery is mounted around the perimeter of the room. However, this tape must be of high brightness and mounted in such a way that the light from it, as it were, spreads along the ceiling. This technique will give an even filling of the ceiling with light, and, at the same time, will make low ceilings visually higher.
You can, of course, use such a tape and low brightness, but in addition to the chandelier, which gives the main light. The tape, at the same time, acts as a decorative lighting and then a good solution would be to use the so-called RGB tape, that is, changing its glow at the request of the occupant of the room from the remote control from ultramarine to crimson red, with the ability to adjust the brightness and speed of color change . A bedtime story about Umka in the North would become more "alive" under the flashes of the northern lights created by the RGB LED strip!
Another interesting solution for ceiling decorative lighting could be the use of a system consisting of special current-carrying panels and safety mini-lamps.
I would like to say a few words about colorful children's lamps in the form of airplanes, rockets, etc. children's passions made of plastic for one or two lamps. Such things can often be found in design projects, where they are served as the central lamp of the main light. We do not argue, they are very cute and cute and your child will surely like them, but they are by no means center lamps that require sufficient lighting. They may be able to cope with the role of local lighting, but rather, they are more nightlights. If you still decide to make such a luminaire central, then it will need help in the form of additional light sources with efficient lamps, such as spotlights (recessed, overhead, spots with a moving “head” or luminaires on a conductive rail. Together they will give you the desired effect bright even filling with light, without dark corners and twilight.
About nightlights in the nursery
Bedside wall lamps are certainly convenient for mother and child when preparing for bed and for reading about Umka.
Regarding the question of the possibility of using a floor lamp in a preschooler's nursery, the short answer is NO. Whatever the stable floor lamp, the persistent child will try to conquer it and test its strength. your baby is still quite a baby, who takes his first curious steps or, on the contrary, is very active, make sure that the sconces are out of his reach and with a slight extension from the wall. It is also desirable that it be shock-resistant, concise in shape with a closed ceiling and not very “appetizing” in appearance.
We hope everyone already understands the need for a room. Night light must be! This is also convenient for parents who come in at night to straighten the baby's blanket, and the baby himself will fall asleep more calmly. The light from the night lamp should be weak diffused. A very interesting spectacular novelty in Russia is Chinese night-lights-projectors of the starry sky in the form of various little animals. Reviews of mothers about them are enthusiastically positive. The preferred location of the night light is not next to the baby, but, for example, on the table, that is, out of his reach. Indeed, with such an arrangement, there is no risk of injury when waking up or actively playing on the bed.
Workplace lighting. As time has shown, with the development of progress, the good old no longer seems indispensable and necessary. Against the backdrop of new ideas, they began to notice her shortcomings: it is easy to hurt her or even knock her down with a hand, she takes up a lot of space on the table, and there is always not enough of it, because there are textbooks, a computer, headphones and sandwiches! So the classic table lamp was replaced by lamps on a bracket, mounted on a wall or on a clamp - to the table. They take up less space and, importantly, are rigidly fixed to the mounting surface. An important point is that the power of a table (wall or clamp) lamp should not exceed 60 watts. Higher power will give too much light and unwanted reflections on the sheet of paper and the monitor, which will cause eye fatigue.
Another good solution for the workplace of a student is
and hangers with adjustable cord length, located directly above the table top. With this arrangement, unwanted shadows from the hands, which would be with other types of lighting, will be absent.
Which light is better for a child: warm or cold?
The color of lamps in lamps is an important characteristic. The most recommended color for lamps in the main central light is neutral white (temperature index 4000 Kelvin), somewhere between warm sunlight and cold blue sky light. This glow color is also perfect for illuminating a child's workplace, as it stimulates brain activity and has an invigorating effect. Warm glow lamps - temperature index 2700 Kelvin, will be indispensable, for example, for bedside sconces, in a night lamp or for LED decorative strip. The yellowish glow soothes and relaxes, helping to prepare for sleep.
And a little more about the types of lamps for the nursery.
To come to the truth, what type of lamps: incandescent, fluorescent or LED for a nursery is better, you can act
Odom of exception. Definitely not suitable are long fluorescent fluorescent lamps of the old type, that is, those used in offices and public places and which flicker when turned on.
The frequency of flickering lamps is extremely harmful to the eyes of a child.
Compact fluorescent lamps, until recently, were the most preferred for use in children's rooms - they are economical, do not get very hot. However, these lamps do not like frequent switching on and off (and what kid does not like to play with a switch?), They are not dimmable and, as practice has shown, due to the very mediocre Chinese quality, their age was not as long as we would like.
Incandescent lamps are uneconomical, heat up and heat up the space around them - there is a risk of getting burned.
The most attractive and safe lamp for a nursery, in our opinion, is the LED lamp. With its help, you can reduce energy costs (adults will like it), you can play as much as you like by flipping a switch, and these lamps are also dimmable and have minimal heating. This bulb cannot be broken, its bulb is made of matte plastic, which, by the way, already gives a soft and diffused light, even if the lamp is not hidden by a ceiling.
Please with the light and the baby and teenager!
Children grow up very quickly, and what was the joy of the baby already, most likely, is not 
teenagers will love it. This also applies to lighting in the children's room. If you do not plan to completely change the interior and lighting in the children's room every 5 years, then it is worth making its main components, such as the main lighting in a neutral style, that is, for growth. For basic lighting, choose something that will be relevant for your child when he grows up, but in such moments as night lamps, table lighting, as well as accessories, you can come off to the fullest and pick up "baby" cartoon images that match him age.
Take care of, at first glance, useless in terms of lighting, but such little things that are cute for a child’s heart, such as the starry sky or just a garland of small multi-colored light bulbs or, for example, a multi-colored LED strip. They will create a magical world for your child, a certain veil of mystery, fabulousness, which will favorably affect his psycho-emotional state.