By Room

5 articles

• Vanity Lighting: Why the Fitting Position Beats the Lumens

  A vanity is a face-lighting problem, not a room-lighting problem. Almost every bad bathroom light is a fitting in the wrong place rather than a fitting that is too dim.

• Bedroom Lumens: The Room Where Less Is the Specification

  The bedroom is the only room where the target is a range you should deliberately sit at the bottom of, and where the dimmest setting matters more than the brightest.

• Kitchen Lighting: Two Numbers, Not One

  A kitchen is the one room where the lighting brief has two separate answers, and where trying to solve it with a single brighter fitting makes the problem worse.

• Lumens per Square Foot: The Whole-House Table

  One table for the whole house, in the unit you can actually multiply by your own floor area. The corrections underneath it matter as much as the numbers.

• How Many Lumens a Room Needs, and Why One Number Is the Wrong Answer

  A lumen total for a whole room is a starting point, not an answer. The same 3,000 lumens can be comfortable or useless depending on where it goes and what it lands on.