How to choose a pendant light for a child'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, their nursery is their home within their home. When it comes to its layout, we think about the color of the walls, the bed or crib if it's a baby's room, the desk and the play area. All this layout is no small matter, but When it comes to choosing the right light fixture for your child's room, it can be a headache.
Hoopzï , French specialist in suspended lighting and woven electric wire suspension kits, gives you advice on choosing the pretty suspension to light your child's bedroom.
What criteria should you use to choose a pendant light for a child's bedroom?
There are 3 criteria for choosing the most essential light fixture(s) for your child's bedroom: :
- Your child's safety,
- The layout and decoration of the child's room,
- The age of your child.
You should keep these 3 criteria in mind to choose the right lighting solution for your son or daughter.
Choosing the right electric suspension is first and foremost choosing electrical lighting equipment that meets legal requirements and which comply with safety standards.
The lighting that you are going to install in your child's bedroom must meet CE lighting standards.
How many pendant lights does my child's room need? What colors of pendant lights above his bed or play area or desk? Natural, chic, vintage, charming style with or without lampshades? Your guiding principle is to keep in mind that when decorating your child's room, you must promote a clear atmosphere. Light levels impact your child's health because they affect their quality of sleep, mood, learning ability or memory.
Whether a teenager or a 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 lighting should be preferred. It is advisable to use several light fixtures that diffuse a soft light rather than a single light point. As a teenager, your child's bedroom is a mini apartment in which he receives his friends, has a reading corner, plays on the computer and... sleeps. All these necessities therefore require various types of lighting.
Safety, priority of lighting in a child's room
In addition to a compliant electrical system in your home, There should be no electrical wires lying on the ground, because your child might be tempted to pull it or even hang on it. We advise you to avoid standard lamps or bedside lamps for your child's bedroom. We must give priority to the suspension lights which give you the advantage of avoiding a wire which obstructs a passage and is not accessible to your child.
Do not forget safety issues when choosing your children's lamp, it is also and above all opt for a CE certified light fixture meeting the highest lighting standards. It is therefore necessary to ban any attempt at DIY electrical wire and choose a luminaire manufactured by a professional that is CE certified. An electric suspension is an electrical device that requires knowing the safety rules to manufacture it.
Hoopzï does not mess around 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 controlled by an independent body.
Hoopzï manufactures quality lighting fixtures guaranteed for 10 years !
What height of suspension for a child's bedroom?
In order to provide optimal lighting in your baby's room, it is necessary to properly adjust the height of the suspension installation.
For central lighting, the base of the suspension must be installed 2 m from the ground.
In order to provide precise lighting and illuminate the area where the crib 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 at 1.90 m from the ground is adequate.
With the Bala suspensions and the Hang suspensions, it is possible to adjust the height of the luminaire according to your needs.
Also, each 1-bulb, 2-bulb, 3-bulb or 5-bulb pendant light comes with hooks that allow you to position it wherever you want to position your bulb. Moving a pendant light into your child's room is very easy with the Hoopzï pendant light range.
How many suspensions? to light up your child's room?
You should not opt for just one pendant light in your child's room. At least 2 will be useful.
The first must be the suspension which will provide the main lighting. Its arrival is often located on the ceiling. We then advise you to associate it with other suspensions which will allow for example to illuminate the office with another positioned near its play area. If your child likes to read in bed, why not also hang a lamp above his bed?
The Hoopzï suspension range allows you to install several electric suspensions in the same room.
Our range of 1-bulb or 2-bulb pendant lights allows you to choose a pretty woven electric wire pendant light that will light up your child's bedroom.
We recommend a low power LED bulb. If you want to dim your light, the Hoopzï E27 sockets allow you to use the pendant light with or without 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 the electrical outlets in your child's room and give you the possibility to easily multiply the light points to avoid shadow areas.
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What power and type of bulb should you choose for a child's bedroom?
Your child's room will need two types of lighting :
- Ambient lighting : ambient lighting provides diffuse lighting 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 room, you need useful lighting for their desk, play area and reading area.
Then, to choose the bulbs that will equip your child's room, you have 3 pieces of information on units of measurement:
- 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 wattage to light your child's room. The amount of watts consumed is not linked to the intensity and light power of the bulb.
The kelvin gives you information about the lighting color of your bulb. A classic light 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 the luminous flux. This is important information and the important criterion for choosing the bulbs that will light up your child's room.
The right lighting for your child's room should average around 400 lumens per square meter. It is more than an adult room, because the need for light for your child is greater than that of adults. The power of each bulb in your child's room is added together and then divided by the number of m2 of your child's room.
For useful lighting spaces, we recommend lighting between 300 and 500 lumens per m2. For your ambient lighting, your general lighting does not need to be too powerful.
These are the light points corresponding to useful lighting such as play areas, work areas, clothes storage or drawing tables that must be carefully chosen with sufficient lighting power to provide optimal lighting comfort for your child's activities.
We also invite you to refer to the Hoopzi blog article: How to choose my light bulb! This article details everything you need to know to choose the light bulbs that will equip your daughter or son's room.
Is there any certification to ensure the safety of the luminaires?
Safety should be the first criterion when choosing to purchase lighting for your child's bedroom. In order to guarantee your child's safety, we strongly advise you to equip your child's bedroom with CE-certified lighting fixtures manufactured by a European company which controls the assembly of its lamps and electric suspensions in partnership with an independent body.
Creating your child's own light fixture by purchasing fabric electrical wire and electrical components (socket, electrical plug, switch, etc.), without training or knowledge of the main lighting requirements and regulations, is dangerous for your child and for you.
All Hoopzï electric suspensions and lamps are CE certified and meet the requirements of standard NF EN 60598 as well as European regulations on lighting fixtures.
What colors of lighting for a child's bedroom?
The color in a child's room does not stop at the color of the wallpaper or paint. The color of the suspensions that you choose will give that little touch of decoration that will personalize your child's room.
The colors of your baby's room pendant lights to favor are soft colors that will promote the natural light in the room. So, choose pastel-colored pendant lights, natural French linen, raw linen, white or khaki to give your child's room a soothing atmosphere.
Whether your child is a girl or a boy, some parents will prefer to have classic choices by 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 more than 30 colors for the child's bedroom.
When the child grows up and starts going to school, you can opt for different colors of electrical cords and light fixtures, choosing a soothing color in their sleeping area and a stimulating color in their office area. For example, combining a pastel blue pendant light above your bed and a turquoise electrical wire above your desk will be very pretty.
Which pendant light should you choose for a girl’s bedroom?
Why not be daring for your daughter and pair a Hoopzï pastel pink cable with a Krusning cloud lampshade made from crumpled paper available at Ikea? ? This Ikea pendant light combines perfectly with our Hoopzï pendant lights and will allow you to create a personalized and unique lamp. The atmosphere of your daughter's room will be poetic with a warm and diffused light.
If you prefer a pendant light without a lampshade, you can opt for a chic ambiance with a magnificent floating globe bulb available on the sitewww.hoopzi.com . This beautiful bulb with a unique design 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 fixture that will be the final decorative touch for a perfect decoration of your daughter's room.
Which pendant light should you choose for a boy’s bedroom?
If the Scandinavian decoration style is popular for a boy's bedroom, we also love industrial-inspired children's bedroom decoration. The light bulb protection cages are ideal for creating this loft atmosphere which will be original and daring for your son's bedroom. The color combinations are numerous, because the choice of more than 30 colors of threads and 6 colors of Hoopzï cages allows you to perfectly match the color of your Hoopzï suspension with the color of the walls and floor of your son's room. Finally, even if the glass of an LED bulb only heats slightly, the cage allows you to add additional protection to your bulb if your son is a little unruly I
What material to choose for your suspension in a child's bedroom? ?
For your child's bedroom, we recommend a total linen look. Linen bedding sets are the best textile fiber in terms of thermoregulation. Linen fiber allows air to pass 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 resistant fiber over time. In addition, its natural fiber is known to be antiallergic. Finally, It should be noted that linen does not need watering or phytosanitary products, which gives it ecological qualities that cotton does not have.
All these reasons motivated Hoopzï to create a collection of woven linen electric wires available in 6 colors (mustard, khaki, brick, white, black and raw linen).
If there is one room in your home that needs to be calming and soft, it is definitely your child's bedroom. Linen is conducive to relaxation and we recommend linen to vary the colors of linen sheets with the range of braided linen electric wire by Hoopzï.
Having trouble choosing? The Hoopzï raw linen color tending towards light gray can replace a sometimes austere pure white. The Hoopzï raw linen color adapts to all decorative styles, it is timeless and very beautiful.
Practicality
Hoopzï is a French brand specializing in pendant lights. The 4.5 meter long portable lamps with switch and E27 bakelite socket with double rings and the pendant lights with 12 cm diameter steel roof are the ideal pendant lights for your child's room.
With Hoopzï lamps, your pendant lights avoid having wires trailing on the floor and being dangerous for your child.
Hoopzí lamps are CE certified and are rigorously controlled by an independent body, which guarantees you safety and peace of mind for your child's room.
Hoopzi offers you the widest choice on the market in suspended suspension and suspension kit for your child's room with :
- 4.5 meter portable suspension woven electric wire with switch
- 1 wire suspension suspended supplied with hook for off-center suspension.
- Spider 2-light pendant light ,
- Spider 3-light pendant light ,
- Spider 5-light pendant light .
All our suspensions are pre-assembled and guaranteed for 10 years. There is no DIY to do to assemble the electric suspension of your son and daughter's room.
Hoopzï lighting solutions allow you to easily and quickly add several suspended light points in your son or daughter's room.
Hoopzï lamps can be used with or without a lampshade.
If you want to make a light bulb pendant, Hoopzï offers pretty cages that provide protection for your light bulb, which is very useful for your little one's bedroom.
Hoopzï offers you a beautiful range of colors of French linen woven electric wire. Linen is an ecological, anti-mite material and extremely durable over time. The French linen woven electric wire is the ideal material for your child's bedroom.
Hoopzi is the reference decorative suspension for professional architects and decorators and often chosen by parents.
An easy-to-assemble pendant light?
The range of suspended lighting has been designed to be simple and quick to install. This range of French lighting 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 is equipped with a switch and an E27 socket. A child's room has at least 3 electrical outlets and it will be easy for you to position it where you want. The Bala range of Hoopzï electric suspension cord is available in more than 30 colors. Easy to install and easy to coordinate with the decoration of your child's room, Hoopzï is the ideal suspension to light your child's room. If your child's room has an electrical outlet on the ceiling, Hoopzï offers you a range of classic suspensions for 1 bulb up to 5-wire chandeliers with 5 bulbs.
The length of the Hoopzï electric wires is long enough to allow you to decenter each wire and position the lighting point where your child needs it. Each pendant light comes with a pretty white Hoopzï silicone hook that is easy to install and very decorative.
The suspension range Hoopzï exists in 8 colors in 4 versions:
- Suspension 1 hanging wire supplied with hook for off-center suspension.
- Spider 2-light pendant light, supplied with 2 hooks
- Spider 3-light pendant light, supplied with 3 hooks
- Spider 5-light pendant light, supplied with 5 hooks
Hoopzï lights are the easiest suspensions to install. We invite you to visit our page on our site detailing the installation method for our two product ranges. An explanatory film for each product shows you how quickly and easily our suspensions can be installed:
What to do if you don't have a ceiling light?
Do you want to install a pendant light in the child's room and you don't have a wire outlet on the ceiling? Hoopzï is a good idea with its 4.5-meter-long portable lights pre-equipped with a switch. The 4.5 meter fabric electric cable with electric plug, switch and E27 socket designed for a solution with or without lampshade, is equipped with a sufficiently long fabric covered electric cable of 4.5 meters. The 4.5-metre-long portable lamp plugs into a standard socket and brings the light point exactly where you want it.
The Balas Hoopzï are pretty visible cables that can be placed at each of the sockets and which allow you to create the suspended light fixture you want:
- A simple suspension
- A hanging light fixture
- A decorative suspension
- A girl's bedroom pendant light
- A boy's bedroom pendant light
- A decorative suspension
- A chandelier suspension
- A lampshade suspension
- A bar suspension
- 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 choosing to make 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, favors short circuits, eco-designed products and services that consume less energy, water and transport...
Hoopzï is a French brand very involved in eco-responsibility and its strategic choices, product developments, are motivated by the best possible choice in terms of environmental responsibility for the future of our children.
So, All our electrical products are guaranteed for 10 years. Hoopzï does not sell fast design, but has chosen to sell a product that lasts over time. The 4.5-meter Bala portable cord will be used as a suspension above your child's pram, to one day be above his desk and will equip his first student studio. The style of our products is timeless, it is our eco-responsible design choice to preserve a better planet for our children. We have also banned plastic packaging and have chosen to manufacture a range of lampshades in France made from recycled French oyster shell waste collected from French oyster farmers. Also, we have chosen to use 80% of our production of woven linen electrical wire from 2023, because linen, unlike cotton and the majority of other fibers, does not require watering or phytosanitary products. Also, the linen used to braid our electrical wires was harvested in France.
Which lampshade should you choose for your child/teenager’s bedroom?
Our advice to parents is to treat yourself and personalize the hanging light by combining a suspension kit with a pretty fabric electric wire and a lampshade. Personalizing your suspension is often a very successful decorative idea. Major brands such as Ikea offer trendy lampshades, but very ordinary suspension kits. For example, combining an Ikea lampshade with a Hoopzï suspension light gives a super decorative effect! Try it! You will approve :-).
All Hoopzï woven electric wire suspensions are equipped with an electric socket with 2 removable rings. Each pendant light can be used with or without a lampshade.
If you choose a Hoopzï light fixture, you will have the opportunity to choose the hanging lampshade pendant of your dreams for your child's bedroom. You can match the color of the thread with the lampshade of your choice and create a beautiful ensemble.
The Hoopzi Team
