Make Your Interiors Shine with Superior Lighting Design
How Tunable Lighting Makes Everything Look Better
Have you ever walked into a room and been struck by the lighting? Perhaps it was too bright. Or maybe the light was too “cold.” Maybe there wasn’t enough light. Or possibly there was natural light available, and it wasn’t being used well.
Good lighting design is part art and part science. The science comes into how to design lighting sources that provide enough light for specific purposes and give precise ways to control it. The art comes into using creativity with light to make interior details more attractive and noticeable.
One of the newer features on the science end of lighting design is tunable lighting. Tunable lighting adds to the scientific lighting toolset and opens new creative, artful uses of light for your Charlotte, NC home. Explore more about tunable lighting and its benefits below!
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Tunable Lighting
Tunable lighting refers to the ability to change the color temperature of an LED light fixture. Some tunable lighting can also render colors, so you can have a nearly infinite range of colors to choose from in lighting a space. The color temperature of white light is a critical piece of tunable lighting, and it's measured in Kelvins (K). For reference, low, warm candlelight is around 1500K, and bright, cold light (like the overhead lights at Costco) can be around 6500K. Most residential lighting falls in between these two ranges depending on the light and where it is used.
Now let's briefly touch on color rendering, another important aspect of tunable lighting. The Color Rendering Index (CRI) measures a light source's ability to reproduce a surface's color accurately. If you have carefully curated your colors in your interior décor, you want them to look like they should. Good lighting sources sport a CRI of 90 and above that accurately brings out the colors in your interiors.
Tunable lighting brings the ability to customize interior light to your preferences. While no one likes bright, cold lighting all the time, this type of light is useful in daytime hours for task lighting, alertness, and higher visibility. As the day wanes, tunable lighting can transform into warmer, more relaxing tones and set a mood, much like the warm dinner lighting in a good restaurant. Tunable lighting lets you manage this change at the touch of a button or using schedules with lighting control systems.
Guess what? Tunable lighting has health and mood benefits too. Our circadian rhythms respond to these changes in light. The brighter, bluer light of a noonday sun aids focus and energy, and the warmer, amber, and redder light of a setting sun helps our bodies wind down and relax for more restful sleep.
Harness and Manage Light
Tunable light is great, but how do you manage it? It’s easy with a lighting control system. Change your tunable lighting at the touch of a button on a wall-mounted keypad, touchscreen, or app on your smartphone or tablet. Go from brighter white light for preparing a meal to warm tones to relax over a glass of wine and dinner. During the day, match the hues of sunlight streaming in the windows with your interior task lights. In the evening, set your ambient lighting to warmer, more relaxed tones. For aesthetics, use color to highlight art, a wall, or other interesting feature. Entertain with colorful lighting to set a mood for cocktail and dinner parties. Your imagination is the limit for enhancing your interiors with tunable lighting.
Design a more stylish and healthful home environment with tunable lighting. To learn more, contact The Integrated Home in Charlotte, NC, today by calling 704-412-4040, filling out an online form, or connecting with us instantly by clicking the chat window below. We look forward to working with you!
