Lighting up a room for your office space or home cannot be taken lightly because lighting has a direct impact on the functionality of your space. From striking matchsticks, to bulbs, fluorescent lights, we have paved our way to ambient lighting.
Now what’s ambient lighting?
Ambient lighting, else known as general lighting, serves as the central source of light for a certain room. It is central to all the lighting of a room. Keeping aside the lighting functionality, the ambient lighting improves the sense of warmth and depth of a room or space.
Khind believes that lighting has a major role to play when it comes to setting the tone or ambiance of your home or office space. Lighting proportionately helps us to develop focal points to lay focus on specific objects or various spaces in a room.
You can transform a space from warm and cozy to crisp and cool with the proper lighting settings and create the ambiance. And that’s how ambiance lighting comes to the forefront. We’re all used to the bright steady light cast by overhead fluorescents in offices.
Before moving onto the inner details, let us understand that there are three basic types of lighting. Now, let’s find out how they can be listed:
Types of lighting
Ambient lighting, also known as general lighting, has been used to illuminate a room uniformly and completely. Chandelier, Ceiling mounted fixture, Wall-mounted fixture, Traditional recessed fixtures and/or LED downlights can be used for ambient lighting.
Task Lighting, as the name goes, has been used to highlight the tasks a person performs in a given outlet such as reading, cooking, computer work. Portable or desk lamp, Pendant lighting has been used for task lighting.
Accent lighting is used when you want a particular object to be focussed or to achieve the desired effect. This type of lighting gives the impression of a larger room.
Now how does lighting affect your workspace and does it have any effect on your productivity levels?
Office space ambient lighting
We are quite aware of the fact that a poorly lit office space can make you feel drowsy and inactive. When you are looking at a computer screen in a poorly lit room, you are prone to eye fatigue. You can save yourself from this by using the right task lighting.
To avoid glares, it’s optimal to place natural light sources in front of or adjacent to work surfaces and computer screens. This also enhances views to the outside.
We should be alert that the place for you to work should also resonate with your personality and interests. It should have a comfortable, properly lit area for reading, relaxing, and viewing a computer screen or a TV and a place to display collections or artwork.
Tips for lighting a modern workspace
Put efforts to diminish glare, especially on computer screens. Make use of direct and indirect lighting to create bright, low-glare light. Employ energy-efficient light bulbs. Cooler light (3,000 – 5,000K) is better for home offices.
Is it solely for your office space? Let’s see how it can be used for your home.
Ambient lighting for your home
There exists several ways to impart ambient light in your home. You can use cove lighting or a cantilever detail with LED lighting cleverly tucked inside, or, you can use linear LED lighting atop decorative furniture pieces, like bookcases or cabinets.
Floor lamps and table lamps add layers of lighting around seating areas, like tiny spots of serene light in your home. Eyeballs-grabbing pendants and chandeliers are an ideal focal point for your luxurious and well-designed dining halls.
We know that lighting determines the comfort levels for any room, but especially when it comes to your home. If your house is a wreck from a good turn to the ugly paint job, yesteryear furniture, or some 1960s-style kitchen cabinets, KHIND suggests it’s wise to just try tweaking the lighting. Sounds like exaggerating? But good lighting can make a room look bigger, brighter, and fancier than cheap lighting.
How to make your home look bigger and brighter with ambient lighting?
Are you thinking of how you can brighten a dark and gloomy room? It’s quite a challenge when moving into a new space. This falls true especially if your new place lacks large windows to let natural sunlight in. But luckily, there are several easy ways to decorate your home or office to transform it into a brighter abode. Let’s hear it from Khind!
If you’re on a steady trail to add just a touch more light without an attempt of levitating the luminosity of your room to escalated levels, you should try to decorate with some long fairy light strings, a group of large candles, orb lights, or other ambient lights.
Also, you should take guard of not simply aiming your lights every which way, try illuminating the walls or ceiling.
It’s a well known fact that colour schemes that are picked to accentuate a room space and aeration are based on light colours: ivory white walls and drapes, plain wooden floors and pale furnishings. As a matter of fact, you are bound to choose matching light, neutral lampshades for your floor and table lamps, perhaps made of linen or silk.
A coloured, hand-blown glass wall light is an indigenous way to add a splash of colour to a wall, especially in a largely white-based colour scheme.
Shades that are medium bright can make a room appear smaller, but when you use bright whites and deep dark paint colors, you create contrast, which creates depth and the illusion of a larger space.
Now that we know, lighting has a strong correlation with our productivity, does it have any direct relationship on our mood patterns?
How it affects your mood and why is it necessary?
Our natural clock is part of the brain, which regulates the photoreceptors found across the body. Based on the levels of sunlight exposure that your body receives, your internal clock also adjusts itself and controls the major life processes like sleep, digestion, mood, appetite, and even cell renewal.
Studies reveal that ambient lighting boosts energy and productivity, but deficit lighting can result in depression, drowsiness, and other physical deficiencies.
Brighter and intense lights are recommended for the morning and during the day, while dimmer and sublime lights are suitable for night. Reverse configurations can result in a confusing circadian rhythm, alter our sleep schedules, or lead to decreased energy levels.
Lighting should be arranged taking into consideration how it affects your eyes and vision. Warm light is suitable for the eyes. Light emitted by incandescent and LED light bulbs are the optimal choice. Make sure to spread out lighting in your home and workspace to ensure sufficient lighting.
Choosing the perfect ambiance lights from Khind Lighting Solutions Dubai can enable your room to evoke a respective mood.
Smart lighting solutions are also a main highlight of KHIND. Smart lighting is a lighting technology with giveaways like energy efficiency, convenience, and security.
High efficiency fixtures and automated controls that make adjustments based on conditions such as occupancy or daylight availability is the main constituent of smart lighting.
Smart lighting permits households and consumers to remotely control cooling, heating, lighting and appliances, limiting unnecessary light and energy use. This ability saves energy and provides a level of comfort and convenience
Ambiance lights brought to you by Khind adds vibrance and personality to any space. Do you wish to have the living room feel cozier with a warm glow? Or the bedroom is more comforting with dim shades of blue? We have you covered. If colorful illumination doesn’t interest you, we’ve also added string lights into the lot that can quickly transform any space.
