If you work from home, you probably don’t need us to tell you how important it can be to get the right home office lighting. It can impact not only how comfortable you are when you work. But how you work. How long you can work for. And how you feel when you’re working. But why is this? And how can you find the right home office lighting solution for your needs?
What Do You Need to Know About Home Office Lighting?
Why is lighting important in a home office?
There are a number of reasons why home office lighting matters. It’s not just a case of flicking on a standard pendant light and hoping for the best. If you don’t have the right lighting, you can find yourself facing headaches, eye strain, and back and neck strain from sitting in unnatural positions to better view your work. When lighting is inadequate, it can reduce your productivity. And it can even impact your mental wellbeing. With unhealthy light levels being associated with poor sleep, low mood, and depression. So, while we can’t all manage to access natural light in our home offices, healthy artificial light solutions are available.
How to choose the best lighting for your home office
Prioritise task lighting
If you work at a desk, using a screen, eye strain is a very real possibility. Having the right task lighting can help to prevent this. With its broad beam, the Astro Gerrit is the perfect example of office task lighting. It’s a touch lamp, for easy operation, so you don’t need to lose concentration while fumbling for a switch. It has a small footprint, avoiding desk clutter. And it looks good – which is actually quite important when you have to face it every day.
Choose more than one light source
For many people, choosing office lighting is merely about illuminating their workspace. But for lighting to be truly effective, you need to think about the whole room. Yes, you need a really good desk lamp, like the Endon Hiero. And that works brilliantly for concentration tasks. But on gloomy winter days or those unavoidable times of working late, you don’t want to sit in the dark with a solitary point of focus. Which is where overhead lights, like the Astro Hashira might come in. While track lights, like the Astro Apollo, or spotlights, might be useful for highlighting bookcases or filing systems. The aim is to create a layered effect. Making all parts of your room serviceable, when you need it.
Consider accent lighting
Your home office may be a place of work, but most of us need a little downtime too. Having a space with a comfy chair and relaxing lighting can be a good way to take a step back and think. Whether you want to curl up with a book for half an hour, or just take a break from your screen. Floor lamps, such as the Endon Nautical, can be great for this. Bringing style and personality as well as functional lighting.
The lighting you choose for your home office has the power to change the way you feel about it. Rather than being a tedious, tiring space, the right lighting can transform your office into a place of welcoming productivity. Because sometimes just one light can make an enormous difference.
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