Light for Knowing: A Dining Room

A dining room where the far wall is almost entirely windows.

Most dining areas, whether small traditional rooms or large contemporary spaces, have one thing in common: a table.  It is easy, therefore, to begin lighting the dining room with light above the table that provides light for doing,but stopping there would leave the room unfinished.   If we do not address light for knowing, the dining room will […]

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Light for Doing: A Kitchen

A very brightly lit modern white kitchen labelled "light for feeling" and "light for doing"

Most folks I know never ask me to advise them on lighting their living rooms, but I get called in often to take a look at kitchens.  Modern lifestyles place a much higher emphasis on kitchens than when many of our homes were built, and it makes sense that lighting these spaces has become more […]

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