14th Apr. '08 · Category: Home & Garden · Tags: exterior-color, home-exterior, lighting
Authored by Kate Smith
Strategic lighting is often used to make a home stand out when the sun goes down but I have never seen a home use lighting like this.
The owner of this home located in Orange County, California added color to the façade of his home by lighting to the architectural features of his home. (more…)
1st Apr. '08 · Category: Home & Garden · Tags: blue, garden-design, home-exterior, lighting
Authored by Kate Smith
In my search for simple yet sophisticated courtyard designs I found this courtyard garden designed by Topher Delaney for a home in San Francisco.
This very sleek design caught my eye because although it is an adult only space (maybe a bit too ‘kid unfriendly’ for my lifestyle) I am drawn to the beauty in its simplicity. Plus I loved the use of blue light to highlight the edge.
See a slide show of the Zen garden.
Interesting how the more immersed I get in my creative endeavors the more I desire uncomplicated and very clean surroundings. Do you ever feel the same?
1st Nov. '06 · Category: Home & Garden · Tags: home, interior-design, lighting
Authored by Kate Smith
When you’re working with color, it is important to understand the temperature of the lighting source - not in terms of degrees, but in terms of whether the light given off has a yellowish, warm light or a bluish, cool light.
As a general rule, most standard, incandescent lights send out warm light while fluorescent lighting generally ranges between a very cool bluish-white to a warmer, pinkish hue.
When these bulbs are lit, the neodymium (the reason the bulbs are blue) provides a pure, clean light by filtering out most of the yellow. Removing much of the dulling yellow cast from common incandescent light bulbs means the colors in your room are truer and the surface textures are more defined.
Philips has a product they call Natural Light that provides a quality of light that is similar to natural daylight. This type of light is close to spectrum lighting, which is a very natural white light.
If you want to create a mood in a room - even if it’s just for a party or event - you might consider color-altering LED lights, which can often be controlled with the flip of a switch. Philips has just such a product that will let you be the “light of the party.”
Both the GE and Philips sites have good information that can help you to understand how to use lighting to create a mood or enhance the colors in your home.
