Lighting Design 101: Light Colors Matter!!!

Lighting Kelvin Scale

👉 Lighting design can impact your business and how it attracts customers…Furthermore, Lighting can help with home comfort and can create an environment to entertain guest with different settings in mind.

👉 Lighting and lighting controls is an important factor to consider when installing lights in a business or home.   Lights can establish a mood, save energy, and lower monthly bills.  In Brooklyn NY, Manhattan NY, and Queens NY lighting matters. Knowing how to use light to attract and set a specific mood for potential customers is critical.

• 2000K - 3000K is a warm light that promoting warmth and calmness and does not normally disrupt the circadian rhythm. 

• 3500k - 5000k is a neutral light.  It is still a relatively warm light. 5000k light helps people with certain eye stigmatisms due to age or who have less than 20/20 vision. 

• 5,500K - (and up) is a white or blue light related to daylight colors. It promotes alertness and is not recommended as a light used near bedtime or night hours. As this white or blue light can disrupt sleep patterns.

Did you know Colors of light effect humans psychologically.

(https://www.tcpi.com/psychological-impact-light-color/)

Rachel and Stephen Kaplan, both former professors of psychology at the University of Michigan, have conducted numerous studies on the way humans react to their environments. For this particular subject of lighting and psychology, a study they published titled “The Experience of Nature: A Psychological Perspective” includes some interesting findings that can help us better understand the way light can affect us.

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