One thing to consider is not just the effect that lighting has on you, but what it has on others. For example, when I think of the quality of different friends and family members’ houses, one of the defining components is how and how well they are lit. My aunt with giant windows and balanced, bright lights easily beats out my friend who has two reading lamps and a kitchen light that get turned on during game nights.
One thing I would ask, Richard, is how do you manage your lights? My current set up has me turn on four different pairs of lights across my room (plus a giant window which I leave always open). Turning the lights off at night is easy- I just go down in temperature because otherwise it makes the TV/monitors annoying to look at- but actually turning on four different lights when I wake up is hard to do. I’m tired.
I agree that it can be hard to manage a large number of fixtures. I know that other people have come up with more clever solutions than I have, but one thing that I have found helps is to plug as many lights as is practical into the same outlet, and use a remote like this one from IKEA: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/tradfri-control-outlet-kit-70364803/ (I’ll add this to the article)
One thing to consider is not just the effect that lighting has on you, but what it has on others. For example, when I think of the quality of different friends and family members’ houses, one of the defining components is how and how well they are lit. My aunt with giant windows and balanced, bright lights easily beats out my friend who has two reading lamps and a kitchen light that get turned on during game nights.
One thing I would ask, Richard, is how do you manage your lights? My current set up has me turn on four different pairs of lights across my room (plus a giant window which I leave always open). Turning the lights off at night is easy- I just go down in temperature because otherwise it makes the TV/monitors annoying to look at- but actually turning on four different lights when I wake up is hard to do. I’m tired.
Buying is easy! Managing is hard!
I agree that it can be hard to manage a large number of fixtures. I know that other people have come up with more clever solutions than I have, but one thing that I have found helps is to plug as many lights as is practical into the same outlet, and use a remote like this one from IKEA: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/tradfri-control-outlet-kit-70364803/ (I’ll add this to the article)
I’ve been using this multi-plug remote controller set for several years, and it’s great. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DQELHBS/