Light can do much more than illuminate your house. Well-designed lighting can highlight an art piece, improve safety and change the mood.

The effect of light depends on the combination of its distribution, color and intensity.

Understanding how these aspects of light affect our surroundings will constitute an effective instrument in lighting design.

Hospital studies showed that patients recovered better and faster when rooms were pained in warm colors and bathed in the optimum amount and tone of light.

Elegant restaurants paid lots of attention to lighting for moods. And even fast food chains hire lighting designers to improve their restaurants.

Light can make you feel calmer just by being in a room, or on the contrary can make you want to leave inmediately .

When designing or redesigning interior lighting, emotional as well as visual effect should be taken into account. Different rooms evoke different feelings, and lighting can enhance those feelings or destroy them.

Understanding the basic concepts of light and lighting will help you invest your time and money in achiveving the effect you desire.