How to illuminate interior stairs? Essential tricks

In this article you will find the inspiration you need to know how to light a staircase. We will take into account your needs, your style (depending on whether you opt for a more minimalist style with technical lighting or a more classic and cozy style with decorative lighting).

Technical lighting can be a very useful, simple and clean solution when using spotlights and LED strips to illuminate the stairs.

Technical lighting can be a very useful, simple and clean solution when using spotlights and LED strips to illuminate stairs.

Between the power to use in each of the spotlights, between 1-3W would be enough to achieve this indirect lighting that we seek for the lighting of a staircase.

A very common trend is to use spotlights at a short distance from each of the steps. In this way, a correct lighting will be obtained in an indirect way in all the steps of our stairs.

Using strips with LED technology for the lighting of our stairs, opens a wide range of possibilities: illuminate the edge of each step (at the top or bottom) or illuminate the side of the stairs.

Depending on how the staircase we want to illuminate, a pendant lamp can be a very simple and very visually appealing solution to, in addition to illuminate the stairs, to decorate them and also get a decorative object in the luminaire.

The objective pursued by installing a pendant lamp on the stairs, is that it is long enough to accompany the path of the stairs and down with them.

We have to take into account that the length of the lamps can be regulated. It is advisable that the installation is done by a professional, to guarantee the effectiveness of the lamp.

In case of having a spiral staircase, we can opt for a set of lamps of 3-5 lamps (depending on the diameter of the staircase). It would be the central point of the stairs and would be a unique solution that would bring a lot of personality to your home.

In iluxiform.com we are lighting specialists, with more than 20 years of experience in lighting. We know that choosing lighting for stairs can be complicated, since lighting is a whole world.

For this reason, we offer you free advice. Just contact us, without any obligation, we will be happy to help you!

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