Working at home gives a number of positive aspects, and the latest modern technologies make it much simpler and easier. It is likely that this is the main motivation for allocating a small room in the house for privacy, work, and doing what you love. You can design such a room as a cozy home office. Arranging such a place to work is not an easy task. It is necessary to create the right atmosphere, think through all the elements of the decor. And one of the most important and main points of cabinet design will be lighting.

Content

1. The role of lighting in creating a comfortable workplace  video
2. Lighting in the office - how to choose a place to place fixtures
3. Direct light and diffused
4. Varieties of lighting, how to choose the right one?  video
5. Dimmer and advantages of its use
6. The benefits of daylight
7. Choice of artificial lighting
8. Curtains in the interior of the study

The role of lighting in creating a comfortable workplace

Creating the right and good lighting plays a major role in the decoration of any premises and rooms. And first of all it concerns kitchens and workrooms. These are places where properly distributed light functions are more important than aesthetic qualities. Incorrectly installed lighting in the work area will have a bad effect on the mood of the person there and adversely affect labor productivity.

Lighting in the office - how to choose a place to place fixtures

An office or home office is an area that can be used for different purposes: to discuss business proposals with partners or to conclude small transactions, meet and talk with colleagues, friends or relatives and close people. Initially, one must understand that this is a place for mental work. Therefore, the role of lighting will be very important.

The places where the lamps will be located, their design and power play an important role. Everyone knows that creating a worthy work consists of twenty percent inspiration and eighty percent of perseverance. In other words, you need to create comfort that brings moral balance and increases productivity. The competent arrangement of light sources will help here. On the right train of thought in the right direction will adjust the local lighting, which will help to focus attention.

With the help of lighting, the office territory is divided into zones, light creates their own peculiar borders. Each of them has its own special purpose and emotional stress. Naturally, the recreation area, the negotiation area, and the work area will require special suitable lighting.

Direct light and diffused

It must be remembered that the scattered light is softer and eye-taking, direct - much more specific and sharper. Lamps with direct light will sharply indicate the territory for work. Consequently, he will focus his attention stronger, but he will quickly bring his eyes to noticeable fatigue.

Ophthalmologists believe that table lamps with shades or lampshades in the form of a cone or sphere will be a fairly good solution to the problem. Such forms of shades will give most of the rays falling on the table, not direct, but reflected from the surface inside the lampshade.

Table lamps giving only direct light are advised to use a not very long period of time or to combine them with general lighting. In such cases, the transition from a darker zone to a lighter cabinet will be smoother and smoother, and the darker parts of the room will disappear.

In cases where the cabinet is large enough to fit a large table, its area can be illuminated with two or more lamps.

Thinking over the general lighting of the home office, you need to think about it so that the arrangement of the light is as evenly distributed throughout the room. If this nuance is observed, the eyes of the owner of the cabinet will not be in constant tension. Based on their cabinet dimensions, it may well be either one or more lighting devices that fill the entire space of the room. Sconces and floor lamps, chandeliers, ceiling lights or spotlights are quite suitable.

A meeting and conversation area is only a few square meters. It can be equipped with several chairs and a small table. This area will need local lighting. It is permissible to issue it with a floor lamp or a lowered lamp from the ceiling.

In cases where the office is more suitable for meetings and conversations, the best design option is decor made in deep, dark colors and diffused, dim lighting.

Varieties of lighting, how to choose the right one?

Of no small importance in creating the design of the cabinet lighting are the types of lamas - halogen, luminescent, incandescent. Of course, before buying any type of lamp, the owner of the office must decide what exactly, how and with whom he will deal with it. This will help determine the choice of the appropriate type for a particular zone.

You need to very carefully approach and choose the light sources for the office. You need to know that a tungsten filament will give a pleasant yellowish light, halogen devices will give cold on the contrary, and luminescent ones will give similar daylight, more suitable for office lighting. It is important to share personal life and work, office space and home office. In any case, the choice of lighting design directly depends on the objectives and goals of this room.

Snow-white light will give optimism and vivacity. If this is the desired light for your personal account, then you need to buy a fluorescent or halogen lamp, interestingly designed and not too large. Conversations, negotiations or deals in cold weather will bring more sense and will be more profitable and productive.

The lighting design, decorated with ordinary bulbs and giving a yellowish, soft light, will relax and will lead to conversations about the eternal and sincere, non-binding.

Dimmer and advantages of its use

In order to be able to control the light flux, you can use a rheostat. The use of a dimmer will allow you to get the level of illumination in the room corresponding to the personal requests of the owner of the cabinet. For example, people with visual impairment will need stronger lighting, and due to their individual tastes, some people prefer to perform any work only in bright light. A lamp connected through a rheostat has an undeniable advantage - thanks to the ability to change the brightness of the lighting, you can change the situation in the office beyond recognition by simply moving your hand beyond recognition.

The use of lighting effects will help to avoid monotony and monotony in work, because psychologists say that they cause fatigue. You can fully rest in the process of work even by reducing the glow of a table lamp for some time. And reseeding from the table to the chair and turning on the floor lamp in general, you can look from the side not only at your workplace, but also at the problems that you have to solve.

The benefits of daylight

Whatever kind of lamp the shower is, and the best option is still natural light. Penetrating sunlight is the most harmless to the eyes, it has a positive effect on performance. It is with him that the eyes will not strain as with lamps, they will not painfully transfer the transition from the lighter area of \u200b\u200bthe cabinet to the darker.

Often, when arranging a workplace, a very important aspect is missed - natural light sources, and it is precisely the correct use of natural light in some cases that can have a beneficial effect on vision and help maintain eye health for many years.

If glare occurs on the working surfaces of the devices used when light enters, it is best to give preference to combined lighting. The correct lighting is especially important when working at a computer - because a person has to sit near the monitor for several hours in a row. Light from nearby lamps should not get into the eyes of the worker. Local lighting for the workplace near the computer is usually not required - you can do the general. If you have to type or work with documents, then you may need local lighting for the keyboard.

Do not forget that the monitor screen is a fairly strong source of local light, it will need to be taken into account when planning lighting in the office.

If the owner of the office is a designer or architect and the main gadget in his work will be paper sheets, it is recommended that you carefully consider the issue of using natural light. The best option would be to arrange the desktop so that natural light falls on it from the south or north - in this case, the falling shadows will not interfere with the work.

Choice of artificial lighting

If using natural light sources is not possible, then you need to take care of high-quality artificial. Since this is a study in a private house, most likely there are already ceiling lights in the room reserved for the study.

Of course, you can use them in your work. But this option usually turns out to be not quite suitable in the conditions of a home office - to create an office you will definitely need to install additional lighting.

Cabinet lighting should be planned in such a way that the possibility of a sharp difference in shadow and light is excluded, and the light itself would be softened.

Curtains in the interior of the study

Direct sunlight in the room, especially when they create glare on the surface of the desktop or objects on it, is extremely undesirable - this leads to the appearance of irritation and eye fatigue. Since complete isolation from a natural light source is extremely undesirable, you can resort to installing on the windows of today's fashionable Roman curtains or blinds. They should be bright, plain. With their help, it will be very simple to adjust the intensity of lighting throughout the day.

Author: Sergey and Svetlana Khuentsov

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