How to light the entrance to the house ... inside and out!

How to light the entrance? If you also want to give this often neglected area of ​​the home a pleasant and functional aesthetic touch, follow this brief guide. With a few small steps, you will know how to make the entrance of your home a pleasant and exclusive business card for your home.

What lighting by the entrance?

When you ask yourself how to organize the light at the entrance you must not neglect outdoor lighting. The door or the entrance gate needs to be illuminated both to highlight the stylistic and aesthetic value of your home and for security reasons. Treat the light a little at the entrance as a whole between inside and outside.

In this regard, remember not to make the transition from outside to inside too abrupt in terms of light intensity. The "amount of light" should be gradual so as not to be annoying. Unless the incoming room is a large and spacious living room (or coincides with a living room, kitchen, etc.), it makes no sense to light up the entrance! A diffused but soft light will be more than sufficient and even less traumatic for the eye.

Exterior entrance lighting

Let's start with outdoor lamps: it will be essential to concentrate on the door leading to the house. Without this, we could focus on everything around the door (including the driveway, if present).

Entrance ceiling lamp

The first thing to do is to install a specific light for the area around the door, creating a suggestive but also functional atmosphere. If the door is supported by a small roof, you can use an outdoor ceiling light that will point its light towards the door (a convenient solution also to allow you to search for the keys in your bag).

Entrance door lighting with applique

Alternatively, you can have one or, better yet, 2 wall lights on the sides of the door. In this case, however, make sure that the luminous intensity is not such as to blind the people who go to the entrance, or use double-emission wall lamps to direct the light downwards and upwards (emphasizing the architectural elements construction).

Illuminate driveway and exterior walls

To complete the whole, dedicated to the areas immediately surrounding the door. If the entrance is preceded by a path or a path, you should use spotlights or outdoor lamps to "frame" the access road.

Regardless of how you illuminated the door, the idea of ​​exploiting up & down appliqués (double emission) is still good to enhance the exterior design of the home.

Which lamps for internal entrance?

At this point, after choosing the outdoor lighting, we enter the heart of that area which is often wrongly considered simply a place of passage of the house. The entrance to your home, if you think about it, is a borderline between work and rest, between the frenetic pace of outdoor life and the peace of your home.

The first impression that the lighting at the entrance must give to you and your guests is that of a warm and welcoming environment. After carefully evaluating the space you have available, choose the solution that's right for you.

Indoor ceiling lights

The ceiling remain also, in this case, the most convenient solution because, where space does not abound, allow uniform illumination with a single luminous body and with little dimensions. Obviously, as far as aesthetics are concerned, you are spoiled for choice: style, colors, shapes, dimensions ... A ceiling lamp will have nothing to envy of a chandelier.

Applique for entrance lighting

The wall lights are perfect for giving style and movement to the entire room. Playing with shapes and colors you will create pleasant zones of soft light and not invasive. That of the wall lamps is the ideal solution in the presence of narrow and sometimes cramped spaces or for a corridor entrance.

Entrance spotlights lighting

The recessed spotlight is perfect if you want to give amplitude to a narrow corridor, too long or with a low ceiling. The idea is to mount, after having installed the plasterboard ceiling, a series of small diameter spotlights (no more than 5 cm) at a distance not exceeding 40 cm from each other. The effect will be beautiful and very functional.

Entrance chandelier

The suspension lamp, in general, remains the type of luminaire more appealing, but this is not necessarily valid also for entry. In a room it is small, a suspension may not be the right choice.

If lowered too low from the ceiling it would be cumbersome and concentrate the light more in the lower part of the room. If, on the other hand, it were installed too high, it would lose its charm and would seem out of place.

Use a chandelier for entrance preferably if the latter is large and with fairly high ceilings.