We moving into a ground floor apartment, however there isn’t a lot of natural light due to the balcony above. How do I make it feel lighter and more airy? I will probably have to keep lights on all day and night because it’s that dark. The current lights are fluorescent and although it definitely makes it lighter it feels very clinical.
These are the pictures from the website, as we haven’t moved in yet.. all of the lights are on in the pictures when they are off it is so dark inside. The floors are a polished concrete with very white walls makes it feel very clinical
What colour are the light bulbs? We changed some to warm white and that makes it bright but not clinical. Otherwise, I don’t know about clever tricks. The orientation of our house makes it dark so I just stick the lights on!
Are you planning to make any changes to the current scheme? Flooring etc?
The most obvious thing to invest in is better lighting. Warmer lights and as high as possible CRI too. The colour temperture is one thing but low CRI are awful and depressing. CRI means colour rendering index and high CRI will give a much better friendly atmosphere.
Thanks for the information I had no idea! Would you suggest we also add in floor lamps with the same lighting tones? Or warmer ones for the evening time? We do want to change the flooring too thinking maybe wooden flooring?
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