A key consideration of any home or office remodel or construction is the lighting plan. dental office design is an art in its own right. Light can turn a beautiful room into a space with the ambience of a prison ward. It’s the same if the project is a rustic log cabin retreat or a interior lighting design. Lighting can enhance or destroy all the considerations of a good interior design plan.
A major consideration an interior designer should decide concerns source lighting. Where does the light come from, how does it fall, and how does it change. The initial challenge of designing a room is figuring out what the primary source of light will be. If the space is use mostly during the daylight hours and has adequate windows, then the designer may work with the light source in choosing colors and even the shape of the area. If the room has no windows, or is mostly used at night then a different set of design rules may apply. A room with some windows, and 24 hour accessibility offers up another set of challenges.
Sunlight has a color hue to it that is different from other light sources. Sunlight is blue during the day with warmer tones at sunrise and sunset. Also, the tone will change with the seasons depending on location. Selecting paint, floor material and furniture can all be enhanced with this knowledge. The bluish tint of a midday sun can bring out the blues in the wall. The warm tones of evening and morning can bring out the red hues in paint. A couple important considerations concerning a room lit primarily by sunlight include the hours of use, the nature of the use, the colors of the floor and whether or not there will be supplemental lighting.
A space illuminated mostly by artificial light has several other issues to take into account. Artificial light comes in different color temperature as well. Fluorescent light has a blue green hue, tungsten bulbs have a yellow orange hue. If the room is lit by fluorescent lights a color should be selected that will best work with the greenish cast. Most people have seen a room where fluorescent light has turned the walls into unpleasant garish colors. Thoughtful choice of paint color can minimize this effect and help create a room with an almost daylight feel.
Choosing paint color from paint chips is always a challenging prospect. First, a bit of paint may be very different then an entire space using the same tint. Second, factor in the lighting under which the color sample is being viewed. A lot of paint departments are located deep inside a store and lit by fluorescent lights. Take the paint sample, walk it to the window and examine the shade in the sunlight. Next, take the chip home and put it on the wall. Look at it during the day and also at night. Switch the wall the chip is on. Walls facing different directions reflect different light sources or the same source in a different way. Understanding the light is a major part of the design battle.
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