Lighting

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Household lighting consumes between eight to 15 per cent of an electricity budget. The products you choose to install, and the way you use them, will have a big impact on overall household costs. In fact, eff icient lighting can yield you big energy savings.

ELECTRIC LIGHTING DESIGN ASPECTS The Australian Government’s Your Home website features information and tips about energy resources and projects within your home. Here is a snapshot of the site’s electric lighting design advice. For more visit yourhome.gov.au

“Use of electric lighting in the home has two aspects: specific task lighting and creating a night-time ambience for a room or space. The eyes adapt to low light levels at night and it is unnecessary to try to duplicate the high level of illumination available from daylight. When considering lighting a space, work on points of interest within. The human eye is attracted to bright objects and accordingly should be rewarded with something of interest. By contrast, dark areas are of limited attraction but serve to accentuate (by contrast) the brighter objects of interest. Use highlights to draw attention to key objects or spaces in a room, or for lighting specific tasks. Carefully select features to highlight, such as artwork or prints, and use the minimum eff ective highlight level so you don’t waste energy. Reading lamps or table lamps are an eff ective, flexible and eff icient means of giving higher task lighting rather than increasing general lighting of the entire space.”

“electric lighting in the home has two aspects: specific task lighting and creating a nighttime ambience for a room or space”

TYPES OF LIGHTING

LED What is it? The light-emitting diode (LED) is an energy-eff icient solution to lighting. These bulbs are durable, last longer and use around 75 per cent less energy than traditional incandescent lighting. (LED) ution are use energy scent

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INCANDESCENT What is it? This traditional style of lighting is considered one of the least energy eff icient types of lighting. While they are inexpensive to buy and do provide a beautiful warm colour, incandescent bulbs (also known as carbon filament) have a short life span compared to LEDs.

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FLUORESCENT What is it? Available as tubes and circline lamps – used for task lighting – and compact lamps, fluoro lights are more energy eff icient than incandescent bulbs. They do cost a little more, but have a longer life span. NT or task t e more hey do have a

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1. Brighten up your space with the funky Hex pendant light. Industrial and modern, the sparse design of this pendant light will shine in any room. It’s from Domayne.

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2. With a vintage industrial design, the Aros one-light pendant, available from Lighting Illusions, incorporates geometric shapes and gunmetal metalware features.

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TEN top tips

The Australian Government’s Smart Home website provides the following tips for installing great lighting.

1. Design a house to not need lights turned on during daylight hours. 2. Consider the orientation and layout of rooms to best use available daylight. 3. Use surface reflectance of light coloured

surfaces, and well positioned pendant and wall lights, for good light distribution in a room. 4. Decide the type or types of ambience you wish to create in each room during night-time use. 5. For more than one type of ambience, adjust light levels (dim lights) or turn diff erent lights on or off through diff erent switching circuits. 6. Create task or accent lighting with directional lighting. 7. Create general lighting with non-directional lighting. 8. Use warm coloured lamps for the home,

except possibly for bathrooms and laundries where the cooler coloured lamps present an appearance of a clean, sterile space. 9. Before selecting a lamp, identify relevant attributes for illuminating each room (e.g. quick start-up, long life lamp, dimmable, multi-way switching). 10. To create the ambience you want, think about lumens, which measure the total amount of visible light emitted by a source, not wattage (power). For more information, visit yourhome.gov.au

LIGHTING AESTHETICS

• Take advantage of natural lighting – it’s free, clean and will make a room feel open and airy • Use low-energy compact

fluorescent lamps (CFLs) or LED lighting to reduce running costs • Two-way switches are smart for use in long hallways or large rooms that have multiple entryways • The colour temperature of globes is an important consideration – warm soft lighting works in bedrooms and living spaces while many people prefer cool, white light for areas such as the kitchen or bathroom • Keep wall colour in mind – light or neutral interior surfaces reflect more light, which in turn means you can use less artificial lighting.

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