Ah, yes, the kitchen—the hub for social interaction, a space for culinary inspiration, and if you’re not careful, a prime spot for electrical problems. Truth to be told, kitchen lighting in Fairfax, VA is more important than you realize. You’re probably used to passing through your kitchen so many times on a daily basis that you don’t really take the lighting into consideration. But if by chance that you do notice it, you may looked around and said, “Wow, this lighting really needs to get in with the times.”

What is a spotlight? What is a floodlight? Knowing the difference between the two is important for properly lighting any application. Before you can understand the difference, you must know what a beam pattern is. Beam angle or pattern is a measurement of the angles that are formed between a cone of light’s brightest point (the center) and the points on both sides of the center where the light’s intensity is 50 percent as bright.

PAR30 bulb that is available with a spot or flood beam pattern.

Fixtures, such as retrofit LED can lights may also look similar to one another while functioning as either spotlights or floodlights. Some light bars are even capable of emitting flood, spot, or combination beams. There are, however, certain fixtures that we imagine when we think of floodlights and spotlights.