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Colour & Light

How paint, daylight and lamps change a room, with the numbers that decide it.

  • Living room showing ambient ceiling light, a reading lamp and focused artwork lighting
    Separate light sources allow the seating, reading position and artwork to operate at different levels.

    September 4, 2026 · Simon Drake

    How to Plan Ambient, Task and Accent Lighting

    Plan ambient, task and accent lighting with practical lux targets, control groups, color specifications and an electrician-ready drawing set.

  • Monochrome sage living room with graduated wall, ceiling, upholstery, and timber values
    A controlled sage palette uses lighter upper planes, darker joinery, and visible timber grain to preserve the room's boundaries.

    August 31, 2026 · Ingeborg Falk

    Monochrome Rooms: Building Depth With One Hue

    Learn how to build a monochrome room with measured LRV steps, controlled sheen, textured materials, lighting checks, and full-size samples.

  • Living room window with a solar screen and lined curtains partly open
    Separate screen and curtain layers allow glare, view and nighttime privacy to be adjusted independently.

    August 24, 2026 · Juliet Abara

    Daylight and Curtains: Openness, Stack Space and Fading

    A practical guide to solar-screen openness, curtain stack allowances, blackout detailing, glare control, and fabric fading in direct daylight.

  • Shielded pendant centered above a long timber dining table in a measured interior
    The pendant's solid lower rim conceals the source while the illuminated surface remains visible.

    August 17, 2026 · Georg Mahler

    Feature lighting: hanging height, scale and glare

    Set pendant heights and diameters, plan cable drops, control glare, and test LED dimming before feature lighting is ordered or installed.

  • Living room wall divided into related paint colors under daylight and warm lamplight
    The same wall can carry separate color impressions where window light and electric light overlap.

    July 24, 2026 · Robert Ainsley

    Color psychology: evidence, light, and paint tests

    See what paint color measurably changes, where color psychology overreaches, and how to test LRV, daylight, LEDs, sheen, and room samples.

  • Interior wall divided into matte, eggshell, satin and gloss paint samples under side light
    Oblique light makes the progression from diffuse matte to sharp gloss reflection visible on the same prepared substrate.

    July 19, 2026 · Celine Duforest

    Paint Sheen, Washability and Room Selection

    Compare matte, eggshell, satin and gloss by measured sheen, scrub resistance and defect visibility, with room choices, primers and repaint cycles.