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I agree with this 100%. When we bought our house 5 years ago I bought some hue bulbs as a luxury purchase along with one Sonos speaker. Figured I was spending 2
by llamataboot 4y ago
I agree with this 100%. When we bought our house 5 years ago I bought some hue bulbs as a luxury purchase along with one Sonos speaker. Figured I was spending 200 grand on a house so may as well pay a few hundred dollars worth of toys.
Fast forward 5 years and the whole house is automated (and not through the cloud) but the ability to change moods with lights (and lights with moods) and especially have non-white light throughout the house has been amazing.
I can't even remember the last time light was truly bright white except for occasionally in the morning when needing to wake up or when needing to really read and concentrate. Other than that it seems vaguely inhuman to go into a house and be lit up in cold white lights like an interrogation
- hammock 4y agoWhat colors and moods do you use?
- llamataboot 4y agoReally depends on the room and the time! I would say that once you get over some initial shock about colored lights, sometimes it makes sense to have lights in room half brightness orange-yellows and sometimes it even is nice to have them deep blues and purples and some accent lights are always nice to have somewhat colorful because they are mostly providing ambience and decoration rather than light to do something with Also moving away from overhead lighting and towards more lamps and wall lighting in rooms has also done wonders. Something about overhead bright lights feels unnatural once you don't have them Which makes sense being that the only time that sort of light happens outside is at midday in the summer