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I think the argument is that you can produce a relaxing shade by using pure white and controlling the lighting / decor, rather than relying on paint color to su
by brookst 4y ago
I think the argument is that you can produce a relaxing shade by using pure white and controlling the lighting / decor, rather than relying on paint color to subtract certain colors out.
For instance, bright white paint + 2800k lamps may vibe similar to eggshell + 3200k lamps.
- JohnFen 4y agoI see. That seems like an overly complex solution to a very simple problem, though. Not to mention the unnecessary use of electricity.
- MichaelZuo 4y agoYour using electricity in either case, and they're both of the same complexity.
- JohnFen 4y agoWell, I'm only using electricity at night. During the day, the sun lights everything. But now that I say that, I realize that's not going to be the same for everybody. But adjusting the wall color through lighting is more complex than just having the walls be painted the shade you want.
- MichaelZuo 4y agoAll lighting adjusts the 'wall color'. It's impossible for it not to. There's no man made source that exactly replicates the sun.
- JohnFen 4y agoWell, sure, I'm speaking in approximations. My only point is that my personal preferences mean that a bright white room would drive me crazy. I could fix that with various methods, sure, but it seems to me the easiest and best solution is just to paint it a color I would prefer. I'm certainly not saying that anyone else is wrong for having tastes that differ from mine.
- silisili 4y agoIf you're prepping a home to sell, sure. Stark white in a brightly lit room can be overwhelming. Sure you could dim the whole room, but now you've dimmed everything. For something like a gathering room, where a person may want to be reading, such a solution doesn't work. And I'm not using 'soft' white bulbs that make everyone look jaundiced to hide the wall color. Much easier all around to go offwhite(or anything but white) on the walls, using neutral 3kish bulbs to your preferred brightness.
- brookst 4y agoDimming and color tone are not the same thing. Yes, using paint color to control room light is easier. It’s just less flexible. If you just want to throw a bunch of furniture and lights in, paint color is simpler. If you want the flexibility for the room to present as daylight white sometimes and cozy amber evenings at other times, it takes more work in lighting and for furniture choices, and neutral white walls increase flexibility. Neither answer is “better” in some objective sense. It’s just a simplicity vs power choice.
- throwawaylinux 4y agoUnless you let little to no natural light into the room, you need to have something that works with sunlight, which is most residential settings.
- solarmist 4y agoI have Hue color lights in every room except the bathroom. Very worth the extra expense!
- Doxin 4y ago> And I'm not using 'soft' white bulbs that make everyone look jaundiced to hide the wall color. Get bulbs with a higher color rendering index. I made the mistake of getting warm white LED bulbs from the local hardware store. Those things are positively yellow. The warm LED bulbs from IKEA on the other hand aren't any bluer, but they keep white looking like white.
- DannyBee 4y agoIf your main concern is lighting effect, you should just be using LRV. Sheen has almost no effect on LRV and thus how much light reflected from a fixture is bounced in the room. While it is true that matte finishes have particles that are diffusing light so that the surface does not look as shiny, no sheen is actually specular enough to reflect a meaningful amount of light. Especially compared to the color (This is crazy for people to accept at first but it is in fact correct and you can prove it to yourself if you want)