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Shorter Darker Days Are Ahead: Make Your Home a Haven
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s more of life is cen-
• Create inspiration by clus-
• Encourage concentration
who’s DIY-ing her home reno-
dynamic schedules and automa-
tering pendants for a fun, unique
with good (if possible natural)
vation says, “Office lighting can
tions based on triggers like your
centerpiece.
lighting.
be both functional and fabulous! I
local sunrise or presence at home.
home,
• Hang pendants over night-
Design pros suggest home-
went with an overhead chandelier
Delineating start and stop times
good design can help
stands to turn the bedroom into a
owners incorporate light layering
with a drum shade for an updated
to your day through lighting can
you augment and replace natural
retreat. Individual switches allow
to maximize light throughout the
look. The shade also helps diffuse
help optimize productivity and
light, while creating a beautiful,
for customized lighting for easy
day. Supplement daylight with
light to avoid glare on my com-
boost your mood.
bedtime reading.
overhead lighting from chande-
puter screen.”
tered
around
productive, safe haven during the
“The stress of the COVID-19
darker, shorter days of fall and
crisis has emphasized the impact
Jayme and Nolan Fridley, of
liers, recessed and close-to-ceil-
Technology can help spaces
winter.
Smart controls can also facilitate distance-learning.
our environment plays on our
Fridley Homes in Oregon, who
ing fixtures. Place task lighting
pull double-duty. Lifestyle blog-
“With a voice assistant built
“As the home continues to
wellbeing. There’s never been a
balance a busy custom home
such as pendants or desk lamps
ger, Lindsey Dalton says, “We
inside the Instinct smart light
serve as our collective sanctuary
more important time for interior
building business with their active
over work areas. Use accent
put our chandelier on a dimmer
switch, you have your own at-
during the COVID pandemic, it’s
design,” says Doris Pearlman,
family, are observing new trends.
lighting like wall sconces to add a
so it can be bright while my hus-
home teaching assistant, helping
critical to consider how lighting
founder of Possibilities for De-
soft glow as the day wanes.
band’s working but we can turn it
answer questions and assisting
can keep a family thriving during
sign of Denver. “Our goal is to
plan is not as charming when ev-
“Lighting should set the tone
down during dinner to transition
with exercises,” says Andrew
this fall and winter season,” says
create spaces that uplift and em-
eryone’s working from home,”
for productivity. For some, this
the room from workday to relax-
Ragali, senior marketing manag-
Michael McCullough, director of
brace, providing respite from dai-
says Jayme Fridley. “Instead of
might mean bright lighting and
ing evening.”
er for iDevices. “It also allows
PR at Progress Lighting.
ly pressures.”
a ‘great room,’ many families
multiple sources. Others might
With smart light fixtures, you
you to play music or audiobooks
now think that having many ar-
prefer a moody vibe. Making it
can change lighting tone, bright-
using voice commands to keep
eas designated for specific tasks
your own is what’s most import-
ness and color with a device or
kids on task.”
is ‘great’.”
ant...oh, and a good backdrop for
your voice. Control products
For more tips and to shop
Fridley’s strategies include:
Zoom calls sure won’t hurt,” says
from iDevices work with the
products, visit Progress Lighting.
• Create specific learning ar-
Julie Wynalda, owner of True
three most popular voice assis-
Your home environment im-
Vine Creations in Hudsonville,
tants: Amazon Alexa, Google
pacts your family’s health and
Mich.
Fall has arrived, and with it, a new reality. The days are natu-
Pearlman’s team offers three design suggestions:
rally growing shorter and darker.
• Add lighting above work
Daylight Saving Time expires
areas to create functional, opera-
November 1, ushering in the long
tional spaces.
“The
open-concept
floor
winter nights and colder tem-
• Complement ambient light-
peratures. This means more time
ing with pendant lighting around
• Let kids customize spac-
spent inside working, learning
kitchen islands to facilitate col-
es, keeping clutter minimized to
laboration.
avoid distractions.
and just plain living in our homes.
eas for each child.
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Assistant and Siri. Using the iDe-
wellbeing. Well-lit, comfortable
Instagram influencer Heath-
vices smart Dimmer Switch and
spaces can help your household
er, of Operation Tudor Revival,
Wall Switch, you can set lights on
thrive in the months ahead.
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