Summarize
- Lighting is an important part of home comfort and functionality
- LedStore luminaires are high quality, long lasting and easy to install
- A lighting designer can offer more practical and thoughtful solutions
- LedStore luminaires always aim for a CRI of over 90
- LedStore offers free lighting consultation and affordable design
Plan your lighting with a professional, as it is an important part of the comfort and functionality of your home. LED lighting can create a wide range of atmospheres, but as well as looking stylish, it’s important to ensure that the lighting is of high quality, long-lasting and easy to install. High colour rendering contributes to a good quality luminaire, ensuring that the space is pleasant to be in and that colours, including skin tones, look as they should.
LedStore’s domestic led luminaires – quality for over 10 years
We have been developing our own range of products for ten years to provide high quality lighting for all homes and offices. All our luminaires are designed to be easy to install and easy to use. High quality materials, high quality ballasts and good dimming performance ensure that the customer is satisfied with the quality of the luminaire. LedStore luminaires use only aluminium frames, and the quality is reflected in the finished, minimalist appearance of the products.
Plan your lighting with a professional
Often, lighting design is left as part of the technical electrical design, even though a lighting designer can provide a more practical and thoughtful result. The electrical designer has to focus on much more than lighting, while the lighting designer has lighting as a priority. “That’s why we offer consumers free lighting consultations and affordable lighting design. We offer solutions for general lighting, indirect lighting and target lighting. Our interior designers can then recommend interior lighting fixtures that complement the look, if desired,” says Liisa Korhonen from LedStore. Customers appreciate the fact that lighting design gives them new ideas and a well thought-out result. The design process with LedStore is easy, and the design is made according to the customer’s wishes, ensuring that the premises receive the right amount of light for the purpose. For example, when choosing bathroom lighting, the requirements for wet room electrics need to be taken into account, and more information can be found on the TUKES website on electrical installations in bathrooms and showers, for example. “Our range is varied, but is deliberately kept at a reasonable size so that we can offer the same product to customers over the long term. While the colour rendering range of LED luminaires is from zero to 100, we aim to keep the level above 90 for all products. Our best products have a colour rendering of 98,” says owner-operator Janne Halttu. The lighting package stays well together when you use one partner from design to luminaire procurement. For more photos of Talo Muhonen below, see LedStore’s reference photos.
In high colour rendering light, ambient colours are displayed correctly
Colour rendering is measured by the Colour Rendering Index (CRI) or the narrower RA index. LedStore reports the CRI of its luminaires, the average of fifteen reference colours that indicate how well a LED can reproduce the colours of its surroundings. In practice, good colour rendering means that once the luminaires have been installed and the object has been decorated, a red cushion, for example, will look as good in the object as it does in the store, not greyish or bluish. When measured on a smaller scale than the colour rendering index, the RA value may look better than, for example, a value of 84, because a smaller number of reference colours are considered. For a poorer quality colour rendering LED, a wider range of reference colours will cause problems, and the CRI may drop to 74 when measured from the same luminaire. While an RA of 80 is considered the minimum recommendation for home lighting, LedStore luminaires always aim for a CRI above 90, so that ambient colours look as true to life as they should. In the picture, only the LED bulb has been replaced with a higher colour rendering luminaire, with all other features of the luminaire unchanged. The difference is particularly noticeable in bright colours and red, which is a challenge for a lower CRI luminaire. If you want more information, you can find it on LedStore’s page on high colour rendering luminaires for professionals. In the picture below, an orange and a tomato get their true shades when illuminated with a high colour rendering LED lamp. The images on the left have a CRI of 80 and the images on the right have a CRI of 98. The images have not been processed.
For more information on this topic, please visit the LedStore blog entitled: What is the difference between CRI and Ra value in LED colour rendering? Read more about LedStore’s lighting design and contact us. In the LedStore showroom you will find high colour rendering LED luminaires. We serve consumer and professional customers on-site and remotely, including custom-made led strip lighting. Our visiting address is Mesikukantie 16, 01300 Vantaa. Call or e-mail us, tel. 045 251 4510 and myynti@ledstore.fi. You can also find LedStore on FB and IG ledstore.fi
