The KSR range offers a variety of ways to brighten up your home this Christmas and any time of year. From downlights to LED bulkheads, there is something for everyone with the KSR lighting range.
Before we delve any further and begin choosing the perfect lights to help brighten up your home this Christmas, it is important to:
- Recognise that more space allows lights to be more evenly distributed, which in turn helps create a more welcoming home environment.
- Understand why LED lights are a popular household, commercial and industrial choice (read our last post on energy-saving lights to help you tackle rising electricity bills)
- Decide on the ambience and then the type of light you want for a particular room. With the KSR range, the LED facilities allow you to adjust the colour of the lights to suit various moods or a specific ambience.
In choosing the ideal lights for your needs, it is important to consider the sort of illumination you require before deciding on the type of light to use.
1. Cool white lights are bright lights that can help make a room appear brighter. The cool white CCT is perfect for task lighting as it is shown to improve concentration and productivity. Hence it is a popular choice for use in schools, hospitals, industrial and commercial units.
2. Natural white lights help to give a room a brighter, atmospheric, and more energetic feel and can help to boost concentration. They are particularly ideal for areas of high activity such as the kitchen, bathroom, office, and hallways.
A good example of natural white light applications is, the KSR KSRFRD351 Firebreak QR10 8W IP65 4000K Fire Rated LED Dimmable Downlight which comes complete with a detachable white light. It is an ideal choice for illuminating areas in your home such as the kitchen, bathroom, and living areas as well as offices (whether at home or at work), thanks to its 4000K cool white colour temperature as it emits a more natural white light which is most similar to the natural morning and afternoon sunlight. This light helps create a livelier and cleaner ambience, ideal for concentration and attentiveness needs, hence why it is popularly used in office, retail, and commercial environments. The 4000K CCT light they emit is also easier on the eyes and helps you focus more clearly, ensuring the prevention of possible mishaps hence why in a home, you are more likely to find this kind of light in kitchens. Furthermore, a 4000K CCT-rated light is the perfect complement for homes with white or brightly coloured furniture and décor as it can help enhance the contemporary tenor of your home.
In addition, the KSR KSRFRD351 Firebreak LED Dimmable Downlight is easy to install thanks to the push-fit loop-in-loop-out connector and is fully tested for 30-, 60- and 90-minute fire-rated ceilings. It also boasts a high light output of 807 lumens with the capability to adjust brightness thanks to its dimmable feature.
Sometimes, finding the space to improve lighting in your home can hinder progress, but worry not, we stock the perfect lighting solution to tackle this issue:
The KSR KSR9791 Starlet 6W 4000K LED Flat Panel Downlight helps provide a more even glow glare solution in areas where spacing is an issue, thanks to its panel design and ultra-slim 21mm profile. It is a non-dimmable downlight, providing an even low glare lighting solution for a range of commercial applications.
3. Warm white light is perfect for creating a warm, relaxing, and comforting atmosphere, ideal for areas in the home you would usually relax in. These are also commonly found in the kitchen, bathroom, office, and hallways.
The KSR KSRFRD385 Firebreak QR Select II IP65 4CCT Fire Rated LED Dual Wattage Dimmable Downlight is a dimmable, fire rated LED light solution, perfect for downlighting your home space according to your needs. It offers you a range of integrated colour selectable technology options and dual/multi wattage allowing you to adjust the downlight according to your preferred light colour of either 2700K yellow light, 3000K warm white light, 4000K cool white light, or 6000K daylight white, and wattage output of 5W or 7W via a drive current selector switch on the device. This makes it most ideal for domestic applications as it allows you to adjust the lighting effect depending on the ambience you want to create/desire. The KSR KSRFRD385 downlight features a loop in, loop out driver which is a popular way of wiring recessed mounting downlights amongst electricians as it requires less cabling and makes for a faster installation process. The multi wattage downlight has a polycarbonate bezel and an aluminium body construction for improved durability. It is also highly energy efficient thanks to the integrated LED technology (read more about the high energy efficiency of LED lights in our ‘Money Saving Tips To Keep Your Energy Usage Low: Tackling Rising Electricity Bills’ blog post. Like most LED lights, it has a long operation life span of up to 60,000 hours! With an IP65 ingress protection rating, the downlight is protected against low-pressure water jets from any direction and is fully protected against dust ingress.
Aside from the ability to select from a range of colours, it allows you to save up to 90% on energy compared to 50W halogen bulbs, making this an ideal energy and money-saving lighting choice for all areas of the home.
We also stock a range of lights to help brighten outdoor areas in your home such as the garden.
For instance, the KSR KSR1504 Norcia Spike Light has a spiked pole fitting for easy installation into soil and for use in high-saline coastal areas.
The KSR Norcia Spike Light can be pivoted, allowing you to angle the direction of light to enhance pathways, highlight structures such as statues and fountains, accentuate certain features in your garden accordingly, and even extend the view down your garden to enhance the depth of your garden space.
The KSR KSR1344 Tulua Spike Light is also a spike light perfect for use in your garden and is also a suitable retrofit for GU10 LED lamps.
For lighting other outdoor areas of your home, we also stock a range of wall lights (square and round) to brighten up the walls in the outer area of your home such as the KSR Norcia 9W GU10 IP65 Square Up and Down Wall Light and the KSR KSR1501 Norcia 9W GU10 IP65 Round Up and Down Wall Light.
To further enhance your wall lighting applications, we would recommend the KSR KSR1341 Tulua III GU10 PIR Up and Down Wall Light which not only helps brighten up your garden and outdoor space but thanks to its PIR capabilities, helps secure your home.
This is because the built-in passive infrared sensor is designed to switch on lights when movement is detected, with an impressive detection radius of 9 metres when wall mounted at 4 metres, and switch time from 12 seconds to 4 minutes.
To maximise and enhance the lighting solutions in your home, you can accessorise your LED lights with our wide range of bezels and lighting kits.
Our most popular bezel, the KSR KSRFRD405 Firebreak QR GU10 IP65 Fire Rated Detachable Bezel is perfect for accessorising your downlights with a circular face shape, aluminium housing, and chrome finish providing a classy and modern feel to your downlights.
The KSR KSRFRD405 Firebreak QR GU10 IP65 Fire Rated Detachable Bezel has a tilt angle of 18 degrees and an IP65 ingress protection rating making it ideal for indoor and outdoor use, with its versatility cementing its position as a popular lighting accessory.
We also stock a decking kit, the KSR KSR1333W W Cabello LED Light Decking Kit which is a stainless-steel exterior recessed lighting solution for brightening pathways and stairways. It has 10 x 0.5W 3000K CCT heads which are ideal for decking installations only, to highlight steps or simply light your wall perimeters. The decking kit comes complete with all connectors and a driver for ease of installation.
Overall, switching out traditional bulbs which often emit an undesirable, yellowish dreary glow for bright white LED options, allows you to maximise brightness in your home. This is where the KSR lighting range comes in handy as they not only help give your home a more open and welcoming ambience, especially ideal for the Christmas season, but also come with money-saving and energy-efficient benefits, which is perfect for tackling rising electricity bills.
Once again, you can read more about the energy saving and money saving capabilities of LED lights in our previous blog: “Money saving tips to keep your energy usage low: Tackling rising electricity bills”