Lighting Guide
Expert lighting advice, buying guides, and practical planning tips to help you choose the right lighting for every home, office, and commercial project.
Welcome to the Saleh Deco Lighting Guide
Whether you're selecting lighting for a new home, renovating an apartment, designing a retail space, or planning a commercial project, this guide helps you make informed lighting decisions.
Our articles cover colour temperature, spotlight planning, beam angles, decorative lighting, magnetic track systems, chandeliers, outdoor lighting, and much more.
Explore Lighting Topics
Practical room-by-room guidance covering light levels, fixture selection, placement, colour temperature and common lighting mistakes.
Understand the technical principles behind good lighting, including light quality, CRI, glare, flicker, colour consistency, lux, lumens, colour temperature, beam angles and protection ratings.
- 3000K vs 4000K Lighting: Which Is Better for Your Space?
- Lux and Lumens Lighting Guide: How to Calculate the Right Light Level
- Light Quality Explained: CRI, Glare, Flicker and Colour Consistency
- LED Energy Savings and Payback
- How to Choose the Right Beam Angle: 24° vs 36° vs 60°
- How Many Spotlights Does a Room Need?
- Lighting IP Ratings Explained: IP20, IP44, IP65 & IP67
- Modular & Magnetic Track Lighting Planning Guide
Guidance for choosing decorative lighting by scale, proportion, placement, style and atmosphere.
Learn how different lighting systems work, where to use them and how to plan compatible components.
Plan safe and effective outdoor lighting for gardens, entrances, façades, pathways and exterior living areas.
Application-focused lighting guidance for commercial and professional spaces, covering light levels, glare, colour quality, layout and fixture selection.
Plan Your Lighting
Use Saleh Deco’s lighting calculators to estimate lux levels, spotlight layouts, and LED strip power requirements.