Dining Room & Home Lighting Tips

Video Transcript

"Another typical residential space is the dining room. We have some specific visual tasks here. We are obviously going to need to eat in the dining room. We are also going to be able to communicate. We want to be able to talk to the person across the table from you and this is a place where a lot of people like to hang out after a meal and they have an extended stay. So we want to be able to change the lighting levels through out lighting controls and our different layers we talked about to be able to create that after dinner mood. Typically the dining room will join the family room or the foyer. You want to keep in mind that when you are sitting somewhere for a long period of time, you want to be able to have some relief for the eye. A good way to do that is to have adjoining rooms and some of those lights in adjoining rooms whether it be lighting the art in those rooms or some soft lights. You definitely don't want to have all the other lights off because you don't want to feel like you are in a cave. You want to be able to look up once in a while and see something else in the adjoining room to rest your eyes."