How to choose a hanging light for a children's bedroom?
He sleeps there, he receives his friends there, he studies there, he plays there, he takes refuge there, he dreams there (etc.). For your daughter or son, his nursery is his home within his home. For its layout, we think about the color of the walls, the bed or crib if it's a baby's room, its desk and its play area. All this layout is no mean feat, but when it comes to choosing the right light fixture for the child's room, it can become a headache.
Hoopzi, the French specialist in pendant lighting and woven electric wire suspension kits, gives you the advice you need to choose the pretty pendant to light up your child's bedroom.
On what criteria should you base your choice of a hanging lamp for a children's bedroom?
The most essential criteria for choosing the lighting fixture(s) that make up your child's bedroom are 3:
- Your child's safety,
- The layout and decoration of the nursery,
- Your child's age.
You need to keep these 3 criteria in mind to choose the right lighting solution for your son or daughter.
Well-chosen suspension lighting for children's roomsmeans first and foremost choosing electrical lighting equipment that meets legal requirements and complies with safety standards.
The luminaire you're going to install in your child's bedroom must meet CE luminaire standards.
How many hanging lights does my child's bedroom need? What colors for hanging above his bed or play corner or desk? Natural, chic, vintage, charming style with or without lampshade? Your guiding principle is to bear in mind that when decorating your child's bedroom, you need to favor a bright atmosphere. Brightness has an impact on your child's health, as it affects sleep quality, mood, learning ability or memory.
Whether teenager or baby, the choice of lighting for your child's bedroom will be different. The atmosphere in your baby's room should be soothing. Warm, subdued light should be favored. It's advisable to use several fixtures that diffuse soft light rather than a single point of light. As a teenager, your child's bedroom is a mini-apartment where he entertains friends, has a reading corner, plays on the computer and... sleeps. All these necessities therefore call for various types of lighting.
Safety, the priority for lighting fixtures in a child's bedroom
In addition to a standard-compliant electrical system in your home, you don't want electric wires lying around on the floor, as your child might be tempted to pull it, or even hang on it. We recommend avoiding conventional floor lamps or bedside lamps for the nursery. Preference should be given to suspension lights , which give you the advantage of avoiding a wire that clutters a passageway and is inaccessible to your child.
Don't forget safety issues in your choice of children's lamp, it also and above all means opting for a CE certified luminaire that meets the highest lighting standards. So banish any attempt at DIY wiring and choose a professionally manufactured light that's CE certified. An electric pendant is an electrical device that requires knowledge of the safety rules for making it.
Hoopzï doesn't trifle with your children's safety!
Hoopzï pendant lights are the right choice for your child's safety. Our 4.5M ready-to-plug pendant cords and decorative pendant kits are CE certified. Our lamps are rigorously inspected by an independent organization.
Hoopzï manufactures quality lighting fixtures guaranteed for 10 years!
What hanging height for a children's bedroom?
In order to bring optimal lighting to your baby's room, it's necessary to properly adjust the height of the hanging fixture.
For central lighting, the base of the hanging fixture should be installed 2 m from the floor.
To provide precise lighting and illuminate the area in which the cradle is located, we recommend positioning the bulb at a height of 1.90 m. To illuminate an area where the child spends time playing, an installation 1.90 m from the floor is adequate.
With Bala and Hang pendant lights, you can adjust the height of the luminaire to suit your needs.
Also, each 1-bulb, 2-bulb, 3-bulb pendant or 5-bulb chandelier comes with hooks that let you position where you want your bulb. Moving a pendant light into your child's room is easy with the Hoopzï pendant light range.
How many pendant lights to illuminate your child's bedroom?
You shouldn't opt for just one pendant light in your child's room. A minimum of 2 will be useful.
The first should be the pendant that will give the main lighting. Its arrival is often located on the ceiling. We then recommend combining it with other pendant lights, for example to light the office, with another positioned near his play area. If your child likes to read in bed, why not hang a lamp over his bed too?
The Hoopzï suspension range lets you install several electric suspensions in the same room.
Our 1-bulb pendant or 2-bulb pendant range lets you choose a pretty woven electric wire pendant that will light up the room in your child's bedroom.
We recommend a low-wattage Led bulb. If you wish to dim your light, Hoopzï E27 sockets allow you to use the suspension without or with a lampshade.
Installing multiple pendant lights in your child's room is easy with our Bala range. Our 4.5M long pendant cords with switch are ready to plug into your child's bedroom electrical outlets and give you the option of easily multiplying light points to avoid shadow zones.
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What wattage and bulb type should you choose for a children's bedroom?
Your child's bedroom will need two types of lighting:
- Ambient lighting : ambient lighting provides diffused illumination when you enter your daughter or son's room.
- Useful lighting : useful lighting is light that is projected onto a specific area. For your child's bedroom, you need useful lighting for his desk, play corner and reading area.
Next, to choose the bulbs that will equip your child's bedroom, you have 3 units of measurement information:
- The Watt
- The Kelvin
- The lumen
The watt corresponds to the amount of electrical power consumed by the lamp. If you use LED bulbs as recommended, you should know that these bulbs consume very little watt power to light your child's room. The amount of wattage consumed is not related to the intensity and light output of the bulb.
The kelvin gives you information about the light color of your bulb. A classic bulb generally develops 3 different types of colors:
- Between 5000 and 6000 Kelvin a cool white
- Between 4000 and 4500 Kelvin a neutral white
- Between 2000 and 3000 Kelvin a warm white
Warm white is the recommended lighting color for your child's bedroom.
Lumen corresponds to luminous illuminance. It is symbolized by Lx or Lm and corresponds to luminous flux. This is important information and the important criterion for choosing the bulbs that will light your child's room.
The right lighting for your child's bedroom should average around 400 lumens per square meter. This is more than an adult bedroom, as your child's need for light is greater than that of adults. The wattage of each bulb in your child's room is added together and then divided by the number of m2 in your child's room.
For useful lighting spaces, we recommend lighting between 300 and 500 lumens per m2. For your ambient lighting, there's no point in your general lighting being too powerful.
It's the light points corresponding to useful lighting such as play areas, work areas, clothes storage or his drawing table that need to be well chosen with sufficient lighting power to provide optimal lighting comfort for your child's activities.
We also invite you to refer to the blog article Hoopzi bien choisir mon ampoule! this article details everything you need to know about choosing the right bulbs to equip your daughter's or son's bedroom.
Is there any certification to guarantee luminaire safety?
Safety must be the first criterion when choosing your light fixture for your child's bedroom. To guarantee your child's safety, we strongly advise you to equip your child's bedroom with CE-certified light fixtures manufactured by a European company that controls the assembly of its lamps and electric suspensions in partnership with an independent organization.
Creating your child's light fixture yourself by buying electrical fabric wire and electrical components (socket, electrical plug, switch...), without training or knowledge of the main lighting requirements and regulations, is dangerous for your child and for you.
All Hoopzï electric pendant lights and lamps are CE certified and meet the requirements of NF EN 60598 as well as European lighting regulations.
What lighting colors for a children's bedroom?
Color in a nursery doesn't stop at wallpaper or paint color. The color of the hanging lights you choose will give that little touch of decoration that will personalize your child's room.
The colors of your baby's bedroom hanging lights to favor are soft colors that will help promote the room's natural luminosity. So, choose pastel-tone hanging lights, natural French linen, raw linen, white or khaki to give your child's bedroom a soothing ambience.
If your child is a girl or a boy, some parents will prefer to have classic choices, opting for example for a pretty pastel pink for a little girl and a pastel blue for a boy. On your site www.hoopzi.com all color choice options are possible thanks to a choice of over 30 colors for the children's bedroom.
As the child grows up and starts school, you can opt for different colored cord colors light fixtures, opting for a soothing color in his night corner and a stimulating one in his office corner. For example, cohabiting a pastel blue hanging light above his bed and a turquoise electric cord above his desk will be very pretty.
Which hanging lamp to choose for a girl's bedroom?
Why not dare to be whimsical for your daughter and marry a pastel pink Hoopzï cable with a Krusning cloud shade made from crumpled paper distributed by Ikea? This Ikea hanging lamp combines perfectly with our Hoopzï hanging lamps and will enable you to create a personalized and unique lamp. The atmosphere of your daughter's bedroom will be poetic with a warm and diffused luminosity.
If you prefer a lampshade-less pendant, you can opt for a chic ambience with a magnificent floating globe bulb offered on www.hoopzi.com. This uniquely designed bulb is dimmable and equipped with LED filament technology. The Hoopzï 1-bulb suspension combined with the beautiful floating globe LED bulb is a magnificent light that will be the final decorative touch for the perfect decoration of your daughter's bedroom.
Which pendant light to choose for a boy's bedroom?
While Scandinavian decor style is popular for a boy's bedroom, we also love industrial-inspired kids' bedroom decor. The light bulb protective cages are ideal for creating that loft atmosphere that will be original and bold for your son's bedroom. The color combinations are numerous, as the choice of over 30 wire colors and 6 colors of Hoopzï cages allows you to perfectly combine the color of your Hoopzï suspension with the color of your son's bedroom walls and floor. Finally, even though the glass of an LED bulb heats up only slightly, the cage adds extra protection to your bulb if your son is a bit rambunctious J
What material should you choose for your hanging lamp in a children's bedroom?
For your child's bedroom, we recommend a total linen look. Linen bed linen sets are the best textile fiber when it comes to thermoregulation. Linen lets air through and absorbs water. Linen is a high-quality material whose fiber grows 100% in Europe. Other advantages of linen are that it is an extremely durable fiber. What's more, its natural fiber is known to be anti-allergic. Finally, it's worth noting that linen needs neither watering nor phytosanitary products, giving it ecological qualities that cotton doesn't have.
All these reasons motivated Hoopzï to create a collection of linen-woven electric yarns offered in 6 colors (mustard, khaki, brick, white, black and raw linen).
If any room in your home should be soothing and soft, it's certainly your child's bedroom. Linen is conducive to relaxation and we recommend linen to vary the colors of linen sheets with the linen braided electric thread range by Hoopzï.
Do you find it difficult to choose? The raw linen color Hoopzï pulling on light gray can replace a pure white sometimes austere. The raw linen color Hoopzï adapts to all deco styles, it is timeless and very beautiful.
Practicality
Hoopzï is a French brand specializing in suspension lighting. The 4.5-meter-long hand lamps with switch and E27 bakelite double-ring socket and the pendant lights with 12 cm-diameter steel bell are the ideal pendant lights for your child's bedroom.
With Hoopzï lamps, your pendant lights avoid having wires lying around on the floor, which are dangerous for your child.
Hoopzí lamps are certified CE and are rigorously tested by an independent body, ensuring safety and peace of mind for your child's room.
Hoopzi offers you the widest choice on the market in hanging pendant and hanging kit for your child's bedroom with:
- Suspension walker 4.5 meters woven electric wire with switch
- Suspension 1 wire suspended delivered with hook for off-center suspension.
- Spider suspension 2 lights,
- Spider suspension 3 lights,
- Spider suspension 5 lights.
All our suspensions are pre-assembled and guaranteed for 10 years. There's no do-it-yourself required to assemble your son's and daughter's bedroom electric pendant.
Hoopzï lighting solutions let you quickly and easily add multiple pendant light points to your son's or daughter's bedroom.
Hoopzï lamps can be used with or without shades.
If you want to make a light bulb pendant, Hoopzï offers pretty cages that provide protection for your light bulb quite useful for your cherub's room.
Hoopzï offers a beautiful range of colors of electric wire woven in French linen. Linen is an eco-friendly, anti-mite and extremely durable material. Linen woven electric wire from France is the ideal material for your child's bedroom.
Hoopzi is the benchmark decorative suspension by professional architects and decorators and often chosen by parents.
An easy-to-assemble suspension light?
The luminaire suspension range has been imagined to be simple and quick to install. This range of French luminaires is ideal for equipping your child's bedroom. The easiest lamp to assemble is the Bala concept. This lamp is a 4.5-meter long cord that plugs into any outlet and equipped with a switch and E27 socket. A children's room has a minimum of 3 electrical outlets and it will be easy for you to position it where you want it. The Bala cordon Hoopzï electric suspension range is available in over 30 colors. Easy to install and easy to coordinate with your child's bedroom decor, Hoopzï is the ideal pendant light for your child's bedroom. If your child's room has a ceiling power supply, Hoopzï offers a range of classic 1-bulb pendant lights up to 5-wire 5-bulb chandeliers.
The length of Hoopzï electrical wires is long enough to allow you to off-center each wire and position the point of illumination where your child needs it. Each pendant comes with a pretty white Hoopzï silicone hook that's easy to install and very decorative.
The Hoopzï suspension range comes in 8 colors in 4 versions:
- Suspension 1 hanging wire supplied with hook for off-center hanging.
- Spider suspension 2 lights, delivered with 2 hooks
- Spider suspension 3 lights, delivered with 3 hooks
- Spider suspension 5 lights, delivered with 5 hooks
Hoopzï lights are the easiest hanging lights to install. We invite you to visit our page on our website detailing the installation method for both our product ranges. An explanatory film for each product shows you how quick and easy it is to install our pendant lights:
What if you don't have a ceiling light?
You want to install a hanging light in the child's room and you don't have a wire outlet on the ceiling? This is the Hoopzï idea, with its 4.5-meter long lamps pre-equipped with a switch. The 4.5-meter fabric-covered electric cable with plug, switch and E27 socket, designed for use with or without lampshade, is equipped with a sufficiently long 4.5-meter fabric-covered electric cable. The 4.5-meter-long hand lamp plugs into a conventional socket and brings the light spot exactly where you want it.
The Hoopzï Balas are pretty exposed cables that can be arranged at each socket and allow you to create the hanging light fixture you want:
- A simple pendant
- A pendant light
- A deco pendant
- A girl's bedroom pendant
- A boy's bedroom pendant
- A hanging decoration
- A chandelier suspension
- A lampshade suspension
- A suspension bar
- A light bulb suspension
- A classic chandelier with 2/3 Balas sets.
Eco-responsibility - Hoopzï the anti fast design and eco-responsible choice.
Children are our future and opting for a responsible purchase is a good start for their future.
A responsible purchase for your child's bedroom is a purchase that minimizes environmental impacts that favors short circuits, eco-designed products and services that consume less energy, water and transport...
Hoopzï is a French brand deeply involved in ecoresponsibility and its strategic choices, product developments, are motivated by the best possible choice in terms of environmental responsibility for the future of our children.
Thus, all our electrical products are guaranteed for 10 years. Hoopzï doesn't sell fast design, but has made the choice to sell a product that lasts over time. The 4.5-meter Bala balancing cord will serve as a suspension above your child's baby carriage, to one day be above his desk and equip his first student studio. The style of our products is timeless, our eco-responsible design choice to preserve a better planet for our children. We've also banned plastic packaging and chosen to manufacture a range of lampshades in France from recycled French oyster shell waste collected from French oyster farmers. Also, from 2023 onwards, we have chosen to use 80% of our woven electrical wire production in linen, because linen, unlike cotton and most other fibers, doesn't need watering or phytosanitary products. Also, the linen used to braid our electric wires was harvested in France.
What lampshade should you choose for your child's/teen's bedroom?
Our advice to parents is to indulge yourself and personalize the pendant light by combining a hanging kit with a pretty fabric electric wire and a lampshade. Customizing your hanging light is often a very successful decorative idea. Big names like Ikea offer trendy lampshades, but very banal hanging light kits. Combining an Ikea lampshade with a Hoopzï pendant light, for example, gives a super-deco effect! Give it a try! You'll agree :-).
All Hoopzï woven electric wire pendant lights feature an electric socket with 2 removable rings. Each pendant light can be used with or without a shade.
If you choose a Hoopzï luminaire, you'll have the opportunity to choose the hanging lampshade suspension of your dreams for your child's bedroom. You can match the color of the wire with the lampshade of your choice and compose a beautiful ensemble.
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