Common Lighting Design Mistakes with LED Strip
Nearly every failed strip installation traces back to one sequence error: the tape, the channel and the driver were chosen before anyone decided where the light had to land. The...
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Nearly every failed strip installation traces back to one sequence error: the tape, the channel and the driver were chosen before anyone decided where the light had to land. The...
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Rhythm along a run is a matter of equal intervals and matched end conditions, and an interval sitting 10 percent off its neighbors is noticed far faster than spacing that...
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Three to one is the point where a difference stops looking like an accident and starts looking deliberate, five to one reads clearly as emphasis, and ten to one lifts...
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Making a low ceiling look higher with light is a question of which surface in the room returns the most light and whether the top edge of the room is...
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A sightline is the straight line from where a person stands in one room to the farthest surface visible through the opening into the next. Light it outward, nearest element...
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Open-plan lighting holds together when every zone boundary lands on something the room already has. A change of ceiling plane, the edge of an island or a beam gives the...
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Lighting small rooms without overlighting them is mostly a matter of specifying for the throw distance you have. In a 5 by 8 bathroom the tape sits two or three...
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Using color temperature to shape a space changes how the finishes render, not how much light lands on them. A 2700K run and a 4000K run at matched output put...
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Layering light at three heights means one run near the floor, one at working level and one at the ceiling plane, with a deliberate decision about which of the three...
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Balancing daylight and LED lighting in one room means giving the LED layer a different job at each point in the day. From mid morning to mid afternoon the glazing...
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A dark surface gives back very little of what lands on it. A flat white ceiling typically returns 75 to 85 percent of the light reaching it, a mid-gray around...
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Ceiling height changes two things: how far the light has to travel before it reaches anyone, and how much of the fixture a person in the room can see. A...
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