Light Colours and Your Room
What is the light colour and colour temperature anyway?
Colour temperature (CT) is the degree of warmness or coolness of a light source. It will change from the different type of bulbs, different materials and different lamp coverage.
The colour temperature measured in Kelvin degrees (K), if the Kelvin degree is low that means the light colour is more like a warm white. If it’s high, the light colour is more like daylight white. In our daily life, the common ranges of colour temperature of a light source are from 2700k to 6500k. The light colour within that range can be classified as warm white, neutral white and daylight white.
For other environments such as industrial lighting and car lighting, the colour temperature can be more than 7000k. When the colour temperature is higher than 6500k, the light colour of it is cold light.
How to choose colour temperature and light colour?
Colour temperature can affect the atmosphere of the room. Different light colour can create a light environment. Whether you have glamorous, modern or traditional style, choosing the right colour temperature and the light colour is important when buying lights.
Some tips when choosing colour temperature
- Warm white is more the like colour of the sunset, can create a cosy, warm and comfortable atmosphere easily. A LED bulb of 2700k and spotlight of 3000k are perfect for the bedroom.
- Daylight white can create a vigour inspiring mood, for a living room, the colour temperature from 5000k to 6500k is more common.
- When you are buying bulbs, you can try using warmer lighting for the indoors, recommended colour temperature is 2500k to 4000k. And try whiter lighting for the outdoors, recommended colour temperature is 5000k to 7000k.
- European and American families usually prefer to use the warmer light, but in Asia, especially East Asia, people are more like to use the daylight white.
- In a high-temperature region, people usually choose lights with a colour temperature that is higher than 4000k, while in lower temperature region, people tend to choose lights with a colour temperature that is lower than 4000k.
- Remember to choose a higher colour temperature in a large place that with a lot of people.
So which light colour would you choose?
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