Dulux: How lighting affects your room

The following video looks at natural light, and how it affects a room.  My clients house contains many windows, alowing lots of natural light in, and so this is an important area to look at.  Having looked at nature's colour in the previous post, it is also important to look at how natural light can alter a room, and the colours in it.

Having watched the video, I have made notes relevant to my own design project.

Rooms with north facing windows never receive direct sunlight, important to choose colours with no black to brighten the space.  

Although the my clients house has north facing windows, rooms with this also have windows in other directions, and so this does not apply to my project.

Dulux 'light and space paint' work to make the room look bigger by reflecting twice as much light.  

The en-suite bathroom in my clients house is quite small, and so this may be a good paint choice to help make the space look bigger and more open.

Rooms with a south facing windows can almost have too much light and the sun is in these rooms for the greater part of the day.  Use paints that contain grey, as these will absorb a little of the light.

The bathroom window is south facing, and so perhaps a grey based light and space paint would create a large looking room, without glaring sunlight.

In the kitchen, there are north and south facing windows.  There are however more south facing windows, and so perhaps these windows should govern the paint colours.

In east and west facing rooms, light will still need to be maximised.  Dulux suggests warm colours, as when the sun is off the house, the rooms can start to look dreary.

The bedroom, which has a westerly facing window, should take this rule into consideration to ensure that it looks inviting and cosy instead of dreary and cold.


Post Bibliography


Dulux. (n.d.) Understanding how light affects your room [Online video] Available from: http://www.dulux.co.uk/video/ca_lighting.jsp [Accessed: 18th October 2011]