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If 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 ever

If 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 ago
Dimming 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 ago
  Unless 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 ago
I 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.
- silisili 4y ago
  I'm actually really picky about that, I've probably had 10 different brands at this point. Absolutely cannot stand it when things look too yellow, or too blue. Ended up on the sketchily named "energetic" brand from Amazon. 3000k, and claims to be CRI80+. Unsure which of those is more important, but I finally found my goldilocks bulb.

brookst 4y ago

Dimming 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 ago
Unless 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 ago

I 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.

silisili 4y ago
I'm actually really picky about that, I've probably had 10 different brands at this point. Absolutely cannot stand it when things look too yellow, or too blue. Ended up on the sketchily named "energetic" brand from Amazon. 3000k, and claims to be CRI80+. Unsure which of those is more important, but I finally found my goldilocks bulb.