A good lighting arrangement is crucial to achieving effective kitchen design, according to the BBC home design pages.Offering tips on how to illuminate the home in the most useful and attractive way, the BBC claimed that task lighting around key appliances was as key as achieving good central overhead light.Lighting in the kitchen which is focused on task areas, such as sinks cookers and other food preparation stations, needs to always come from the side or behind rather than in front of where the user is working, claimed the site. Central pendant lighting was said to be important for the general look of the room, but was insufficient alone, meaning that without strong task lighting annoying shadows would obscure key work areas and make activities like vegetable chopping unduly hard.The correct levels of lighting in the kitchen are particularly important when considering food preparation experts recommend a level similar to true daylight in order to make it easier to spot when food is cooked or off.The site added that for sinks placed at the window to maximise daylight, an artificial light for night time cooking could be fitted in the windows pelmet. Sink-buyers looking for a window-side model could select one of Frankes many stainless steel sinks, whose reflective metal surface promise to spread natural light around the room.