What are the key considerations for lighting healthy interiors?

Good lighting is very important, especially in a kitchen, particularly above the stove and any other area where you spend a lot of time working. It is a genuine safety hazard not to have good lighting in your working areas in the kitchen! 1st priority for lighting - if you can add more windows, do it. Natural light is the most beautiful, comfortable light.

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I agree and would love to highlight the importance of well designed building fa?ade that maximizes the desired amount of daily sunlight and heat management along with the interior design that combines material selection and space planning to create a unique user experience that fosters the connection to the outdoors, positively impacting mood and productivity.

Lighting color temperature not only sets the ambiance of the space, but also affects the function. Color temperatures are responsible to biological circadian rythme, mainly triggering your body either to stay calm and relaxed (warm white 3000K) or focused and alert (cool white 6000K), this simple selection of can help you sleep better, work more focused and some studies showed how color temperatures can even stimulate faster recovery durations in hospital rooms when using tunable white lighting fixtures to mimic the shift of night and day.

Can’t agree more, your body normally produces melatonin by the time the sun sets, which helps relaxes the body and ready to sleep. With artificial lighting and all the screen time we get on laptops and smartphones, cases of sleep deprivation and overall exhaustion is rising. This is mainly why, you’re always on screen, fully focused and highly alerted all day long. Reduce screen time whenever possible, use computer apps to reduce eye strain for long working hours and enable blue light filter on your mobile before bedtime.

On point, task lighting is one of three main layers of a lighting design. Ambient lighting is the general, diffused lighting of the space created by ceiling down-lights or cove-lights which gives the adequate lighting level for circulation and minimal or generic tasks. Task lighting is more focused lighting on certain areas like a desk, table or kitchen counter top, providing the required lux for a task, the amount of lux required may vary from a task to another, and also subjective to age groups, elders may need more lighting. Accent lighting is more aesthetic which focuses light to create contrast, make an art piece stand out on the wall, a statue in hall or impose a visual hierarchy for an interior space.