How To Light A Space | Mistakes, Rules + Lighting In Interior Design
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Lighting has the power to make or break a space. Unfortunately, it’s often an afterthought and what otherwise may have been a well-designed room can be quickly ruined by poor lighting choices.
In this video, I’ll go through the three common lighting mistakes and four useful tips that you can easily follow.
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00:00 - Intro
00:20 - Incorrect Lighting Temperature
03:02 - Mixing Color Temperature
04:02 - Not Layering Lighting
07:24 - Match Lighting Fixture To Other Elements
08:40 - Diffuse Your Light Source
09:28 - Use Dimmers
10:33 - Light Your Outdoor Spaces
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A mistake I've made is not using the same brand lighting. Color temperatures are not the same from different brands even if it says they are the same on the packaging.
Yes, this is a very good point! The color produced can be slightly different depending on the quality of the bulbs.
@@reynardlowell Unrelated question, what couch/chaise is that?
Great point thanks
@@reynardlowell yes. But what then about led lights, whereas there is different tones from the kitchen - to living room tv, or tv stand… open space?? There’s tons of rooms with different shades of light.. so That’s the part I’m not really clear on…
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This is my first (well, technically second :D) proper 'talking head' style video, so please be kind!
I wasn't sure initially on producing this type of video, but I wanted to share and dive deeper into design topics and challenges which is almost impossible to do with full 'B-roll' clips, so hopefully this is something you find valuable as well.
If you do, let me know what topics you want me to cover next. The most upvoted comment/topic suggestion will be made into a video in the upcoming weeks.
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Loved the video. Even though Interiors and design is a hobby, i love watching your videos. They are very educational and i get to learn so much. Also love the tone, flow and production quality of the videos as well. Since they are such a pleasure to watch, I sometimes watch them just to relax!
@@sivastark6851 Colour combinations!!!!!!!! YES PLS!
You did very well I thought. 👍🏻
You did a great job! A well thought out and balanced home is the epitome of comfort, love, safety and peace. Keep up the good work! Denise from the U.S.A. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to be exact!)
Really interesting video. During lockdown I realized that smart bulbs are a lifesaver, since I have only one room for working and sleeping, the bright white light helped me stay awake during winter and work, and in the evening I dimmed it and changed it to cozy yellow to get into sleeping mode (+ screen color changers like f.lux) and it really helped me to keep a good rhythm :)
I rarely comment on youtube, but after looking for videos about lighting all day, this is the most useful, helpful video I’ve come across. Thank you for posting and explaining these concepts!
Great video! Loved how you provided a comprehensive lesson on home lighting, with clear examples. I'd be interested in a video about choosing artwork and decor, and distributing it throughout the spaces in a harmonious manner in a way that adds, rather than detracts, from the whole look.
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It would be great if you could please do a video on the 60-30-10 rule. I understand how balancing out your colour palette in this way makes for a cohesive space that is easy on the eyes… but I have trouble with working out what items the “60%” should apply to and so on.
I hope you found your answers in the meantime. if not, maybe this helps: You can use this "rule" for every aspect of design (design means, not "what" we do, but "how" we do it).
for Interior Design, It starts with your intention of the space. Lets say you have a three room apartment, and want to combine living with dining room. Lets say you want big focus on the social interactions. So stuff like the sofa & dining table would be the biggest aspects of the room, maybe crossing "highways" in some way, and would have aspects of your "main colour" on your chosen palette. f.e: if your maincolour is green, sofa could be green, and the cushions on the dining seats could be green. Having a small space ? no problem: brighter sofacolour (maybe your secondary colour, or something neutral), and big sofa cushions with your main colour green. the third, or "accent" colour would be decoration. You can apply the same principle with lighting. Its all about your intention with the space!
Want to combine your workspace with a small living/chillout area ? well. use your maincolour green on the wall where your desk is, use plants .... and in this case, you could use lighting as main source of routing your attention: Big lamp, spotlight of some sort, and/or very suttle/additional lighting in the small chillout area, the seat/sofa of that area in the secondary colour, third colour sprinkled in the room with decor (your wallpaper, whats on display, etc.). Obviously these are just examples, and you have to evaluate your own space and intentions, how and what colours suits your place, etc.
So, see the 60% as your main focus of attention. If the space is for working, dont put a heavy flaming red sofa and a flatscreen in the same room, taking up 2/3 of the room. I highly recommend thinking about your intentions of space, before you start with colours. How you define spaces, and place interiour plays an even bigger role imo.
I hope this helps!
I was JUST thinking about how I’d really appreciate a video about properly lighting a space (we’re moving soon and I’m really excited about all the possibilities!) and this showed up at the perfect time. These tips are GREAT! I love how you described the how and the why behind different types of light/lighting. I’ll be coming back to this video again and again, I’m sure.
Thanks to this video I was finally able to fix the lighting temperature in our home. Incorporating warm white lightings in our room indeed made it more cozy. Keep on doing more videos like this :)
I'd like to add that cold white/ "daylight" bulbs can be useful for brightening up dark rooms at daytime, whether it be because the room is very large, has few windows or is on a north side, or you just need light to work. On a bright and sunny day, the blue light will seem natural (like "bringing more sun" into the room), at night, warm white will feel more natural.
What you are referring to is called circadian lighting, and it's being implemented and healthcare and nursing home facilities. Artificial daylight during the day helps maintain energy, and towards the end of the day the warmer light tells the body to slow down for eventual sleep.
Great point. Ive discovered this after endlessly experimenting with my smart bulbs. Soft white during the day with the sun shining through the windows feels more natural and energetic without being too harsh. And warm lights at night feels more relaxing and calming. The "orange" color setting on my particular bulbs produce a very warm light that works really well. Although orange can sometimes have too much red in it to create a relaxing ambiance, with these particular bulbs its more of a very warm white.
Reynard…thank you so much for teaching me about lighting. I knew what I liked I just didn’t know what it was called nor where to get it. I love ambient lighting and I love lamps and warm tones.I really don’t care for overhead ceiling lights but you’ve shown me the necessity of them and another way to use them as well. If I had my way, I would like to see the same type of tutorial only this time featuring sound. I love the fact that I can have the same music that will flow in every room of my home,as well as featuring some of the latest innovations in sound. Thank for sharing your expertise👍🏾
A video on creating a cohesive color palette would be a great follow up
THIS!!!
Great tips. A lot of people have horrible lighting in their homes. Only a very bright and cold ceiling lamp etc. My parents always had different smaller light sources in our home and it was always cosy.
I'm a freelancer and provide 3D Interior design services and your videos really help me thank you so much.
This was such a useful video! I've been watching your channel for a little while now and have loved the emphasis on lighting. Recently, I was trying to find a good source of simple information around lighting a space and couldn't find anything. This was exactly what I had been looking for!
All these tips are very valuable for people who don't have much experience in interior design and decor and need to improve the lighting in certain spaces. I recently bought an Arco lamp at Barcelona Designs because I really liked its design and it has turned out to be a very good choice for my reading sessions, but I still need to improve the lighting in other areas. Thanks for these recs!
Thank you so much for addressing everything I needed to know! 3 of my Airbnb guests have complained about the lighting and I was getting frustrated to understand the challenge but you've answered all my frustration🙏🏾
I always struggled with finding the right light temperature but now I learned so much.
Thank you for all the effort.
My evening atmosphere tonight is so nice now that you've taught me to avoid mismatching color temperatures. It so happens the stove top light and bathroom light have the same temperature, so with just those 2 warm lights far away from the window, I can see the lights of the buildings outside 👍❤❤
Thank you so much for this informative video! This will really be helpful when I’m looking for light bulbs that produce a warm glow rather than the harsh glare that the “daylight’ ones produce. Fantastic video!
As someone just purchased and moved in to our own home, your videos are so educational, thorough, and easy to follow! Thank you for making these videos, they really make this process so much less daunting and more interesting and fun! Thank you Reynard
Informative and totally understandable--yet, I haven't considered lighting as great way of tying together the atmospheric feeling of the room. I now have an appreciation for the importance of layering light. Thanks! I would love to see a video on decorating a room with high ceiling. This is my current remodeling challenge. Ugh.
This is my second video I watched by you and I am impressed! When I want to learn "How To", the how it works details, the examples, and recommendations are exactly what I look for. You nailed them all! Thank you for creating this content.
Fantastic video to help me with selecting lighting for the remodel of my home. I’m literally meeting the electrician and contractor this afternoon to go over the lighting and electricity plan. I’ll need to select a lots of lights over the next week, so your video is a huge help. I learned so much and your talking pace was perfect. Thank you so much!
Love your videos! They are concise with a lot of info. I really like that you give us examples of what you are telling us. The examples in this video were fantastic. As with almost all your videos I watch them multiple times as there is so much information. Your voice cadence is perfect, not too fast making it difficult to comprehend or too slow that we feel frustrated.
Thank you so much for explaining it so well! I'm slowly learning how to design my first home to be more cohesive and understanding interior design and you really put it in a simplistic but detailed way to understand! Great job :D
This was so comprehensive and I really appreciate the extra effort to show the different temperatures, styles, and placements! Thank you!
Outstanding video! Really helpful. I'm realizing that my house has a lack of good lightning, which makes everything feel gloomy at night. I always thought we needed to have a stronger light in the ceiling so we were always changing the light bulbs instead of adding other lamps to compliment it.
Thank you! As someone with little knowledge of interior design, this really helped me figure out what tempatures to put in what rooms to create a better feeling environment.
Your videography and compositing and editing and colour grading skills are very aesthetically pleasing. I feel calm.
Love this video so much!! It is such a struggle for me to do lighting designs, as I do not have a false ceiling to play with. But with this video, really learned a lot more! Thanks so much!!!
and here my mom is crazy with daylight bulbs even though ive always said it strains my eyes and does not provide comfort. her answer? "i like it"
Relatable, I changed the one in my room but other rooms are a pain
I've watched this several times. Thank you for being so thorough!!!
Excellent coverage of this important subject! I especially appreciated the tutorial on light temperatures and their proper use. I follow and love all your videos. They are well done, informative and inspiring. Thank you for the more thoughtful pace, it makes watching a relaxed experience (most design videos are fast-paced, and more frenetic). Looking forward to more.
Very informative, peaceful, professional, and yet modest. Thank you
dude, i researched lighting for many months in anticipation of making a huge investment in smart lighting when Matter standard came out. and it is starting. you nailed every point about lighting so easy to understand. the only thing you missed is surface glaring while working. now i will watch all your videos. thanks for your work.
I love philips hue, the only lights I use. Sometimes even the option with color as indirect light. For hallway and bathroom I use neutral light, around 4000k
I didn't know smart bulbs exist! It is definitely a good investment.
I’d love if you did a video on how to use lighting to make dark jewel tone coloured walls work in a small room. I love the theatre and drama of these colours but I’m not sure how to gauge how they will look in a room that had standard windows and standard ceiling heights. Any approaches, from any angle, are welcome.
just bought a new apartment and this is now my bible. thank you.
Great video! It’s really helpful, especially for someone like me living in Sweden where light in winter is soooo important 😂 next topic could be: how to use and combine colors in a harmonious, balanced way, how to work with textures and surfaces for different rooms, how to make small apartments feel more spacious
Excellent point about adding lighting outside. Thanks for all of your great tips!💯
Thank you! I rolled my eyes when you were explaining colour temps but boy did I get schooled by the end of the video. Didn't skip once, subbed too - thanks for taking the time to make this
Thanks for all the info. I’ve been relying on ceiling lights, never thought about layering. Thanks.
Great information! Thank you for the concise, quality information. Homes are so much more livable and comfortable when the lighting is done well!
Love how this video is straight gets straight to it and loaded with information! Im moving from a studio to a much larger apartment that I plan to be in for the foreseeable future. Going to need a lot of tips to make it more livable. You got a new subscriber 😄👍
This was incredibly helpful. I am redecorating a guest room, and I can use these tips on lighting it. I would love to watch a similar video on decorating shelves with a combination of books and objects in a living room.
Great video! Super simple, straight to point and practical. Layering lighting was such a useful concept. Thank you so much.
thank you for this. I always get frustrated when I buy shades, lamps etc that are very pretty but when I turn the lights they disappoint me. Now I understand why. I'll definitely follow your advice from now on :)
Great video and great explanation of every aspect of interior lighting :D
Maybe next step could be choosing the right color palette or furniture overall following different styles (industrial, mid century, scandinavian, japanese, ect)
I really enjoy your videos, they have helped me understand the science and art of creating an aesthetic and functional room. I would love a video on living/dining room combo in a small space, as i am struggling to utilize my space correctly. I have the couch right behind the table and there's no room to have a conversation area. Thanks!
For a first jab at this kind of video, you did an amazing job ! I’m looking to redecorate my studio, and these tips helped a lot !! Keep up the great work Reynard ✨
The colour temperature of your bulbs has a very huge effect on what your paint colour looks like. Never put warm coloured light bulbs with blue walls. I loved my pale blue but needed to go to your condemned Daylight bulbs to get the correct lighting on the walls. Those Daylight bulbs are in my bedroom (also not what you recommend) and reinforce the pale blue walls and actually give the room a very restful, peaceful feel.
too each his own but for me daylight bulbs create an unlivable hellscape.
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Amazing video, no unnecessary blah-blah-blah just important information
Damn. I was looking for 2700k vs 3000k video and stumbled here and enjoyed every second of it.
Blue White light , 6000 K, helped me immensely in fighting winter blues in the north. I only use it in the morning and the bulbs are very bright. In the evening I only use very warm, dimmed indirect light.
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Love the last suggestion with outside spaces!
That was great, comprehensive and conceptual, yet also full of practical tips. Excellent, can't believe it's only your second video of this type. And I am hard to please!
Awesome video mate. Please do one about kitchen design in very contained space. Would love to see your ideas for a fully functional kitchen with a very small footprint. Cheers!
Incredibly informative. Thanks.
Very good video! Appreciated the simple and strong focus on think in the explanation. I really like the quite slower description with images but almost no blank spots of speech. :)
Thank you so much for these tips. I am in a process of building my own home. I kind of know a little basic but this help me know them in more details.
This was very informative and interesting content. It was even more than I was expecting. Thank you. I am now better equipped to light my living space much smarter and cozy. You are a lighting master.
This was a beautiful, well thought out video on lighting! Can’t wait to implement some of these tips in my new home. Thank you for sharing your knowledge ✨.
Thank you so much for the video. I love how concise and easy-to-understand your explanation was!
I subscribed because I enjoyed your very thoughtful and easily followed video. I have also watched the one about art in spaces as well as rug sizes for you space. You did a great job and your voice is very easy to listen to. Good job. I am more of a traditional decorator. I noticed that most of your pictures go toward the modern, minimalistic style of design. Perhaps you can do a video of more traditional/vintage style homes. I can't be the only one that loves these old things.
This is giving me so much inspiration, thank you! I definitely want to check out the LED color changing bulbs
I use the color temperature that works better for me to actually see by. Anything under 5000K (such as the warm/2,000 to 3,000K) strain the heck out of my eyes, especially in the evening when it's dark out and I can't use outside light to help me see. So in that case of your first chapter, the logical use trounces making an atmosphere since you won't be on the floor with a busted ankle going "man this room looks great!" . Other than this, I do like the rest of the video and you did a great job with it overall.
The reason why you are experiencing what you are experiencing is because the eyes are more sensitive to the blue light in the spectrum. The higher the color temperature, the more blue light.
I have way too much Phillips hue and I love it.
i love your content! thanks for taking the time to make these videos. it's very meditative to watch and learn through your channel
what a great video I really got lots of wonderful information from this. You have such a nice soft voice , it has an ASMR quality to it so I find it lovely to listen to . Keep up the great work
Finally found the video I needed. thank you for all the efforts put into this.
Thank you SO MUCH for these videos! I think I am born for interior design, you are speaking my love language! 😁
Thanks for the informative video. I really like your calm tone of voice, listening to you is almost like ASMR :)
lighting is really good . I have calming feeling just by looking at it
Excellent. Thank you for this video, I even took notes. Buying a simple light bulb can be so confusing.
Glad it was helpful!
I loved this video and always stress to my friends how important lighting is in their space haha. Your content is always so informative and relaxing to watch! I also really love that dome table lamp in the “Use Dimmers” section! Where is it from?
Great video dude! Love seeing you in front the camera too ! Keep up the good work.
I'll put your lighting guide to work in my new home. Thank you so much!
Great information! Also, it is really nice to see you presenting your video! Great work!
Such a good presentation of lighting design, I learned a lot. Thank you!
The beautifully made video gave me on-point tips and tricks which I could use for my new home. Thanks so much! Really, amazing video content with visual examples.
I love this video!
The music and your narration is cozy and relaxing.
I also love how you illustrate all of the concepts you explain.
I'm going to be renting soon, and the tips you provided will help me a lot.
Subscribed my friend!
I love this focused topic format! Great tips on lighting all in one video.
Glad you liked it!
Soft White is my fav as it is the one that I feel is cozy.
good description, so true - lighting is important part of interior design
This is actually an incredibly helpful video thank you! I didn't find this kind of information anywhere else.
Hi Reynard. Thanks for the informative video. Could you make a video that treats multifunctional spaces. Homeoffice in the living room type of situation?
Oh my gosh his voice is so soothing, great video❤
Thank you so much for this educational tips. I would like to consider how to design home library and study room in the next episodes.
Great vid! Lightning is definitely key to make your space look nice.
This was just perfect, such useful tips that I wouldn't have thought of on my own. Subscribed and am curious to see what else you've got to teach me!
Wow!! So many useful tips for choosing the right lighting options. And some of them, I found different from what I found on pinterest. But, thanks a lot for sharing.
I love brass and matte black, will you please speak on how to incorporate different finishes in a home so that it still looks cohesive?
For example, should I avoid mixing all together in the entirety of the home? Or maybe designate specific areas for a pop of color? (Such as bathroom with brass and bedroom with matte black)
This was great. I got all the information I was needing from your video. Your presentation was professional and pleasant to watch. Good job! And, thank you.
I like the tip about layering. Thank you!
Thank you for helping me install all the lightnings of my new shop :)
Thank you for this! We just bought our first house and Im here to elevate the look of it coz its an old but renovated house. I hope you can also share some house interior with a gray paint color and gray couch and bed. ☺️
Hi Reynard- please discuss about lighting for house fascade .....to make the house looks more beautiful at the night from outside
Loved this video and learned a lot!! Thank you! Would love to hear educational style vid on deciding what/how much to put on walls (in living room or bedroom) :)
This was the most informative video on in door lighting. I learned a lot from this. Thanks fro the heart