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Lighting
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Bring an atmosphere--a mood, an accent--to light
Lighting Introduction  I  Lighting Planning  I  Lighting Terms  I  Lighting Tips 
Introduction to Lighting:
   Do you feel unhappy in your home and don't know why? Maybe you need to let the light shine!

   Lighting affects you more than any other design detail in your home. Your choice of lighting fixtures, light bulbs, and quality of light makes a difference in your emotional and physical comfort. Lighting an environment is both an art and a science.

   Correct use of lighting benefits you in many ways. Besides allowing you to see, lighting sets the emotional atmosphere. You need good lighting for daily activities, to prevent help fatigue, and to support your happiness.

   Lighting helps change a room for different uses more easily than any other design detail. We can light a room for the occasion or the activity of the moment. The change and variation provided by lighting enhances the rhythms of our daily lives.

   From flickering candles and twinkling party lights to advanced micro-lighting systems, light gives us either a comfortable or a miserable emotional atmosphere. Understanding the effects of different ways to use lighting can help you select the exact fixture and light source to create the desired emotional setting.

Forget about lighting for the sake of function alone. The trend is for highly decorative (and functional) lighting anywhere and everywhere. Accent lighting, and decorative lighting fixtures, whether for task or general lighting purposes, will be designed into kitchens with more frequency in the coming years.
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1. Poor lighting causes eye fatigue and headaches.

2. Absence of natural daylight triggers depression and poor immune defenses.

3. Bright light stimulates us, while low levels of illumination quiet our senses.

4. Dim lighting or harsh contrasts produce eyestrain.

5. Too much artificial light and overly-bright rooms hurt our eyes and make us feel jittery.

6. Insufficient lighting is linked to emotional stress and to physical ailments.

7. An excess of unnatural light does not replace the calming effects of natural daylight.

8. Uncovered light bulbs cause irritation and disturb tranquility.

   Notice that too much artificial lighting or too little supplementary light bring about the same harmful side-effects. Choose your lighting design carefully to assure emotional and physical comfort. Look for types of light fixtures with covered light bulbs. Use daylight-emulating light bulbs in combination with coloured lights to set the mood.

   Consider another fact: people feel more comfortable with lighting from many sources. Combinations of lighting add variety and vivacity to our lives. Contrasting mixtures of brightness and darkness cause dramatic and lively changes in our home ambiance. Uniform lighting is good for working, but it is boring. Blending light sources halts insipid monotony in our rooms and in our lives. Selecting from a gentle radiance, a warm glow, to a bright, intense light involves understanding the effects of lighting on our emotions. 

   For these reasons, Capital 10 interiors takes care when selecting your lighting. Choosing varying lighting effects to bring about your changing harmonious space.
Eight Physiological and Psychological Responses to Light

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