Warm Light, Green Light, Blue Light, Source Light: What Color Is Your Light?
A key consideration of any home or office remodel or construction is lighting. dental office design is an art all by itself. Light can turn a beautiful room into a space with the ambience of a warehouse or an operating room. It doesn’t matter if the project is a rustic log cabin retreat or a interior lighting design. Lighting can enhance or destroy all the efforts of a good interior design plan.
One of the first decisions an interior designer should decide concerns source lighting. Where does the light come from, how does it fall, and how does it change. The first problem of designing a room is determining what the major source of light will be. If it is a room used primarily during the daylight hours and has adequate windows, then the designer may have a major component influencing the choices of color and even the form of the room. If the space has no outside light, or is mostly used at night then a different set of design rules may apply. A space with mixed light, and 24 hour accessibility offers up another set of challenges.
Sunlight has a color hue to it that is distinct compared to other light sources. Sunlight is blue during the day with warmer tones in the mornings and evenings. Also, the color will shift with the seasons depending on location. Choosing supplies and furnishings can all be improved with color temperature awareness. The bluish tint of a midday sun can pull up the blues in the wall. The warm shades of evening and morning can pull up the red hues in paint. A couple important considerations concerning a room lit primarily by sunlight include the time of day the room is most likely to be used, the nature of the use, the colors of the floor and whether or not there will be supplemental lighting.
A room lit primarily by artificial light has several other issues to take into account. Artificial light varies in color temperature as well. Fluorescent light has a blue green hue, tungsten light a yellow orange hue. If the room is lit by fluorescent lights a shade or tint of color should be choosen that will best work with the greenish cast. Most people have seen a room where fluorescent light has washed the walls with unpleasant colors. Careful selection of paint color can minimize this effect and help produce a spance with a daylight feel.
Choosing paint color from paint chips is always a challenging prospect. First, a bit of paint may be very different then an entire space using the same tint. Second, factor in the lighting under which the paint chip is being viewed. Many paint departments are located deep inside a store and lit by fluorescent lights. Grab the chip, walk it to the window and look at the color in the sunlight. Next, go home with the sample or a small can of paint and put it on the wall. Examine it during the day and also at night. Change the wall the sample is on. Different walls reflect different light sources or the same source in a a unique way. Knowing the light is a major part of the design battle.
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