In the fourth and final SMART LIGHTING SERIES video from Wipliance, Lee and I take a quick bathroom break to explore the Light Can Help You approach to lighting. We push back against common trends like downlights over the sink and vanity lights over the mirror to deliver a better experience. We also use a […]
Category: Bedrooms & Bathrooms
1THING: New Build Baths
![A CAD illustration of a bathroom featuring a large, circular bathtub in the middle of the room with sinks and vanities on the walls framing the tub. On the far wall is a shower stall.](https://lightcanhelpyou.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bathroom-5.png)
In retrospect, perhaps I should have saved this post for Halloween. Why? Because I attempted to illustrate light on the human face and ended up creating ghosts. I was never very good at drawing faces, well, honestly, I was never ANY good at drawing faces. But since faces are the reason we have mirrors over […]
Bedrooms: Beyond Sleeping
![An illustration of a bedroom with lighting dos on the left and lighting donts on the right.](https://lightcanhelpyou.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bedroomwarfel-1.jpg)
We have a certain number of formulas for illuminating a bedroom. We layer in lighting to deliver our five promises of light in these rooms just as we would anywhere else in the home. The solutions are different in a bedroom than in a kitchen because the function and form of each space is vastly […]
Sorry, Mom.
![An overhead light that has a gold base and tip, and a textured clear glass globe](https://lightcanhelpyou.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/overhead-off.jpg)
My mother has carefully and meticulously curated a style for the family farmhouse over the past 45 years of residency (we’ve had the farm since about 1882, but none of us remember that). In the 1970’s and 80’s when I was growing up it was, well, very 1970’s. Then, when we finally all went off […]
Lighting Malady: 4CnF Syndrome
![A yellow triangular warning sign with a lightbulb symbol and crossbones below it.](https://lightcanhelpyou.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/4cnf-sign.jpg)
The most common lighting malady I diagnose is CFLS, or Ceiling Fan Light Syndrome. Statistically speaking (and I am completely making this up), CFLS affects three of every four Americans at some point in their lives. If you or someone you know is suffering from CFLS, please contact your designer immediately. One common side effect […]
Long Nights Need Better Lights
![A bedroom with a ceiling fan, several large pieces of art on the wall, and a low wide chest of drawers with a lamp on it. There are two lamps on either side of the bed.](https://lightcanhelpyou.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bedroom_2-1.jpg)
My latest Houzz article shares four ways to brighten up these long, dark nights at home. I forgot to add that wearing an LED headlamp might also help, but anyone who lives with you will get very annoyed. On second thought, stick with the four options in the article. Click on the image below, and […]
Change Easier…without adding lights.
![A CAD design of a bedroom with hand drawn lighting features providing places where light can improve the function of the bedroom. The features include three pendants over the pillows on the bed, two night lamps on either side of the bed, a nightlight in the hallway, and cove lighting along the top of the walls](https://lightcanhelpyou.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bedroomcomplete-scaled.jpeg)
So now you know- because I am certain you read all of my posts again and again until they are burned in memory- that we need light that helps us adapt to changes in tasks, times, eyes, and moods. Most of the time, I do not add any lights for changing. I add dimmers […]
Light for Feeling: For Rest
![A photograph of a white bedroom with two windows and a bookshelf between the windows. The nooks by the windows are lit by wall sconces](https://lightcanhelpyou.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/img_4182-scaled.jpeg)
When my wife was expecting our second son, I turned my remodeling do-it-yourself muscle towards an unused room occupying our former attached garage. Hastily turned into an extra room by previous owners, the space was all but unusable and served as a storage room while we remodeled the rest of the house. Now, with our […]