ABOUT LIGHTING

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 690, 15 June 1929, Page 23

ABOUT LIGHTING

PROTECTING THE EYES A drawing-room should be lighted from the centre, with one or two read-ing-lamps for individual comfort. The light in a drawing-room is best if softly suffused, while on a bureau or writing-table light should be coucentrated on work. As far as possible it should be the rule that, while work should be brilliantly illuminated, the eyes must be protected from the direct glare by a discriminating use of shades. In the dining-room light is required on the table, and if, in addition, the room is to be used as a sitting-room, side lighting or a reading or standard lamp will be required. In the kitchen the light should be placed so that work at the fire or stove is facilitated. . In the bedroom a light is required over the dressing-table and a read-ing-lamp near the bed. It is well to remember that it is wasteful to provide highly-powered lights in corridors and passages, where a low light is quite enough. Again, the same amount of light in darkly decorated and furnished rooms will not be nearly so effective as when used in rooms where the decoration is bright and the walls are light.