The Best Places to Use Fluorescent Lights at Home
Let’s face it. Fluorescent lights aren’t flattering to anyone. They make physical flaws more visible, from the tiny zit on your face to the cellulite lining your thighs. But they also have their advantages. Fluorescent lights provide better visibility than incandescent lighting, not to mention more energy-saving as well. To use fluorescent lights effectively at home, consider the tips listed below.
Bathrooms
Use fluorescent lights for shower stalls or areas specifically used for bathing. Do not, however, use it to provide general lighting or anywhere next to a mirror. As you’ve probably noticed, fluorescent lighting just have a way of making you feel less attractive than you truly are. If possible, use a combination of yellow and white lighting.
Kitchens
The kitchen is a great place to use fluorescent lights. There are no mirrors around and even if there are, this is an unlikely place that you’d care about your appearance. You’d be too busy making – or consuming – food, after all.
You can install one light at the center of the room to provide ambient lighting and then add smaller ones to provide functional lighting. For task lighting, consider adding fluorescent lights over the sink, kitchen counter, and areas under the cabinet.
If you have huge pantries, these would benefit from fluorescent lighting as well. Incandescent lighting would only turn them into the kind of place you often see haunted in movies. Surely you don’t want that kind of area in your kitchen!
Study or Office
If you have a study, office, or library at home, such rooms would definitely benefit more from fluorescent lights than any other type of lighting. These are places where you read and write and do all sorts of stuff that require sufficient or even powerful lighting and you can’t get that from tiny yellow lights.
Place fluorescent lights over table or writing and working areas as well as near shelves and cabinets to make it easier for you to find the materials or files that you need. If you have a desktop, be sure that your lighting system is installed or placed behind you to avoid shadows.
Garden
Like bathrooms, gardens deserve a combination of white and yellow lighting. Fluorescent lights are perfect for changing areas – if you have them – as well as for walkways so that guests may explore the outdoor area of your home safely. Yellow lighting, on the other hand, is good for accentuating special flowerbed arrangements and such.