Illumination for paintings and mirrors: creating an illusion (22 photos)

Such a small detail as lighting for paintings and mirrors will help revitalize your home and change the interior. With the help of special LED lamps, it will give the room coziness and revitalization in the interior. Wall lighting decorates the picture and at the same time draws attention to its decorative elements. In the case of a mirror, visibility improves.

LED backlight for paintings and mirrors

Many wall lights are equipped with LEDs that have a long service life, do not heat up and consume a small amount of electricity.

To select the necessary model, it is necessary to be guided by some criteria:

• Know in advance where the LED lamp will be installed, and what it will highlight: a mirror or a picture.
• Select the brightness of the backlight. In each case, you need to approach separately and choose the best option.
• It is necessary to determine the level of softness of the light and its temperature, because it is different for a mirror or a picture.
• Wall sconces should be combined with the interior of the room.

Also, modern designers offer an LED lamp that can be built into the picture itself or in the mirror.

Types of illumination for paintings and mirrors

1. Halogen is a bright lighting that well illuminates a picture or mirror, but it heats up very much.
2. Luminescent. It gives a slightly diffused and soft light that is close to natural.
3. Backlight with incandescent lamps. They are optimally suited for lighting hand-painted canvases, but they also consume a lot more electricity than LED, halogen or fluorescent lamps.

Each type of lighting device has its own peculiarity, which must be taken into account.

LED paintings

LED paintings have internal LED lighting. It helps to highlight individual sections of the picture. Thanks to this effect, you can unconventionally change the interior of the room without repair.

Advantages of LED backlight

The main advantage of LED paintings is the ability to zone the room. But besides this, they have other advantages:

• LED paintings fully replace the lighting fixture. Can carry the function of a floor lamp, night light or other lamp.
• They help to highlight or hide certain areas of the room;
• Do not require a large amount of electricity.

LED backlighting can consist of several garlands at the same time, or of individual elements. LED backlighting helps highlight the unique decoration of the room, as well as hide errors. For this, it is necessary to direct the stream of light to a successful section of the picture.

You can buy an LED picture in a store or on the pages of online stores that present a large selection of such designs.

Backlit modular paintings

The most modern and original paintings are modular. This is a composition that is divided into several parts that complement each other. It can be divided both horizontally and vertically. Each part of the picture is placed apart from each other at a small distance. Basically, modular paintings are made on a natural basis with oil or acrylic paints.

For a modular picture, you can make a backlight, as well as for a regular one. The main thing is to choose an original lamp with the right angle of illumination.

Apply backlight for pictures

If the picture is attached to the wall, then it is advisable to buy a lamp that will be mounted on the wall above the picture. It is possible to use lamps of different types of incandescent in it: halogen, LED or fluorescent.

Sometimes in the home interior lighting is used for paintings with a switch. It can be included as needed. Thanks to this, energy is saved, and there is no need to be afraid that paints will burn out on the canvas.

Lamps for paintings do not have much variety in design and construction. This is justified by the fact that they serve only as auxiliary lighting. But the light of the lamp itself should attract attention to the picture, and not to itself.

Lighting Features

Some types of lamps are prohibited for illumination of paintings, these include:

• Ultraviolet. Under their light, the molecules of paints and canvases decay, because of which the picture deteriorates.
• Infrared During their heating, paints burn out on the canvas, and they become dull.

Therefore, the paintings are fixed on the walls so that they do not get sunlight. For their lighting, only the backlight is used, which is intended for this.

How to make the right choice?

There are several ways to make the right choice:

1. Buy a frame with built-in lighting.
2. Separately, buy LED lamps and fix them around the perimeter of the picture or in some places.

The first option is much simpler. The second provides an opportunity to show imagination. In this case, the main thing to remember is that you can not use lamps that are very hot.

For registration of illumination of mirrors most often use a classic spotlight or LED LED strip. With such lighting, the mirror will glow and this will be a little highlight of the interior.

Many manufacturers began to produce paintings and mirrors with interior lighting. It is built in the middle and has a switch. Thanks to this, paintings and mirrors are not afraid of wet rooms, and the switch makes it possible to use the backlight as necessary.