Lodging
The lighting choices throughout your hotel will have a big impact on how your guests perceive your establishment. The wrong lighting choices can make your hotel feel uninviting and your interior design look dated. Avoid a bad first impression by following these lighting best practices.
Lighting Choices in Common Areas
Use lighting to separate the major public spaces in your hotel. Lobbies, restaurants, and foyers all require different levels of brightness and warmth. This is something that many managers don’t consider when updating lighting fixtures in their hotel. A lighting specialist can help you make sure that all of your public spaces are setting the right tone.
In certain areas of your hotel, such as in a restaurant or lounge area, you want to make sure that your lighting is flexible so that it can be adjusted during the day. During breakfast hours, you will want the lighting in your dining areas to be bright and inviting, while in the evening the lights should be dimmer and warmer to help set a relaxing tone.
Lighting Choices In Guest Rooms
Like in the common areas of your hotel, the lighting in your guest rooms should also be flexible. Consider all of the activities that guests do in their room and set up your lighting accordingly. For instance, there should be adequate lighting for reading near the bed and appropriate lighting for shaving or applying makeup in the bathrooms.
Part of what makes your in-room lighting set up functional is ease of use. Make sure that guests don’t have to struggle to figure out how to turn on the various lights in their room by being strategic about where switches are located. Above all, you always want to invest in high-quality lighting fixtures for your guest rooms. In-room lighting fixtures should be attractive and hold up to regular use.
Think Sustainable
There are many benefits to switching to energy-saving lighting options such as LED bulbs. Not only will they save you money in the long run, but they can also help you expand on your lighting design. LED lights offer flexible sizes with adjustable brightness that allow lighting designers to illuminate rooms and common areas in ways that are not possible with larger, traditional fixtures. For that reason, they can be a useful addition to your current lighting design if completely replacing fixtures isn’t an option.
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