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Home Office Lighting Checklist
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If you're setting up a home office, or if you have one, give yourself a break. Let your lighting add to the ease of doing your work, rather than making it more difficult.
Use this checklist to determine whether you are lighting your workspace properly:
- Make sure you have enough lighting in the room, so that you do not experience eyestrain on dark days, or when you work at night.
- Beware of lighting and computer glare. If you use a PC, make sure it is placed where the glare of light bulbs will not compete with what you see (or hope to see) on the screen. A laptop gives more flexibility to move it where you can see best.
- Consider "layering" your lighting, so that you can adjust it depending upon the season and the time of day you are working. Plan for overhead, task and accent lighting.
- Control is key. The more adjustability you can build into the lighting of your home office, the better. You want to control the brightness of your environment. Desk lamps should be adjustable. Dimmers on lights are a good idea.
- Daylight should be part of your lighting scheme. Studies show that children perform better on tests when their rooms are illuminated with daylight. Your performance is likely to be affected as well. Let some sunshine in.
- Position lighting appropriately, based on whether you are right- or left-handed. If you are right-handed, keep lamps that will shine on tasks to your left. For southpaws, light from the right.
- Height matters. If you plan to use pole or reading lamps, make sure that the light emanating from them will add to the ease of your reading. At the wrong height for the task, you will see mostly the glare of the bulb. Test the height of your chair, the height of the lights, and build in adjustability for both.
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Article provided by:
www.lighting.com
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