Buying guide: Kitchen lighting

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By: Martha Uniacke Breen

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Combining ambient lighting with the right supplemental lighting improves your kitchen's function and its look.

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- Attractive task lighting that hangs over work or dining surfaces.
- Group three over an island for visual appeal.

Strip fluorescents
- Easy-to-install, economical under-cabinet lighting.
- Energy-efficient long-life tubes.
- Avoid cool white, which has a blue cast.

Uplighting
- Placed on top of cabinets to accentuate a high ceiling.

Rope lights, fibre optics
- Energy-efficient accent lighting.
- Rope lights can be installed in or under the cabinets.

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