A key consideration of any home or office remodel or construction is lighting. dental office design is an art in its own right. 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 considerations 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 initial challenge of designing a room is figuring out what the primary source of light will be. If the space is use mostly during the daylight hours and has adequate windows, then the designer may work with the light source in choosing colors and even the shape of the area. If the room has no windows, or is mostly used at night then other considerations would dominate. A room with some windows, and 24 hour accessibility offers up another set of challenges.

Daylight has a tint to it that is different from other light sources. Sunlight is blue during the day with warmer tones at sunrise and sunset. Also, the tone will change with the seasons depending on location. Selecting paint, floor material and furniture 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 space illuminated mostly 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 illuminated by fluorescent lights a color should be selected that will best work with the greenish cast. Everyone has been in a room where fluorescent light has washed the walls with unpleasant colors. Careful selection of paint color can minimize this effect and help create a room with an almost daylight feel.

Choosing paint color from paint chips is usually a risky venture. First, a small quantity of color may be very different then an entire space using the same tint. Second, consider the source of light under which the paint chip is being viewed. Many paint departments are located deep inside a store and lit by fluorescent lights. Take the paint sample, walk it to the window and look at the color in the sunlight. Next, take the chip home and put it on the wall. Look at it during the day and also after dark. Change the wall the sample is on. Walls facing different directions reflect different light sources or the same source in a different way. Understanding the light is half the design battle.

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