15 Tips for the Best Home Office Lighting

Working from home brings all kinds of challenges and finding a good working environment to suit the demands of video conferencing and prolonged computer work now requires your space to be lit properly; it’s for your own comfort and will look more professional.

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Quickly benefit from a lighting designer’s 15 key methods to create a better space to work in at home and create comfortable and practical home office lighting.

Let us quickly find you lights that can fit easily on a desk or workspace such as the best desk lighting or lighting that works alongside a computer/laptop to avoid and prevent headaches and boost energy and create a more positive working environment.

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3 Way Dimmable Touch Control Desk Lamp

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Best Lighting to Work In

Whether you have a home office or wherever you manage to find space to work – you will benefit by considering the lighting layers. We want to take the best of professional office lighting design and translate key principles into practical applications for your working space whilst retaining your homes character.

Ambient Lighting

A key principle of good office lighting design is to consider the level of light (luminance) on all walls, floors and desks, to harmonise the levels of light on them and their appearance. We want to make sure there is enough general light in the room but also a key consideration for lighting is eye strain. 

Philips Hue RGB Portable Dimmable LED Smart Light Table Lamp

This neat lamp, although very abstract and unique could work perfectly to create a unique ambiance in your office or space. Works with Alex, Google Assistant and can be remotely controlled.

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Home Office Eye Strain

Eye strain causes fatigue and headaches and is exacerbated by strong contrasts where the eye is continually adjusting from bright to darker lit surfaces. The eye gets increasingly tired from looking at a bright screen to then adjusting to the longer view across a room, so the closer the brightness of the screen and the general working environment is, the less the eye has to do and more comfortable you will be over longer periods of time.

Tip 1: Modern best practise pro office lighting design will ensure there is enough light at the workstation but not light the rest of the space at the same level. Do not over light the room by ensuring the brightest place is at the desk.

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Emulate Daylight

Daylight is the most wonderful light to work in so gravitate towards it if you can and sit near a window. However in rooms that have less natural light and at night we want to begin with creating lighting with similar diffused-light-5470956.html” data-type=”URL” data-id=”https://sciencing.com/diffused-light-5470956.html” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>diffused qualities (but not the same color temperature).

Tip 2: We want to bounce light around the room just as daylight does so ensure there is reflected light in the room from table or floor lights, that is contributing to a general build up of light by pushing light out of the shade in all directions and particularly upwards out of the open part of the shade.

Tip 3: Turn on at least two sources of light to mix the directions the light is travelling in to create a good general level of light ready for you to introduce task lighting without it feeling too bright and become detrimental to the long term use of your eyes. 

Uplight Rather Than Downlight

Tip 4: If you already have downlighters in a room then if you can dim them down to reduce the amount of direct overhead light onto your your working surface as it can be too bright. If you have the choice then consider using wall uplighters to send light upwards and bounce light from the ceiling back into the room for a comfortable ambient light.

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This great floor lamp is fantastic for reflecting light from the ceiling to create less obtrusive lighting in an office or working relaxed space. With Touch Control and Dimmable.

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Task Lighting  

All working surfaces require task lighting, light that is installed and positioned specifically for the job in hand. When working from home you will be looking at the screen, writing and reading so choose a desk or table light that is adjustable to create a concentrated shadow free pool of light near to where you are working.

Tip 5: It can be more comfortable for your eyes to allow the pool of light from a desk light to be offset from where you are working and rely upon this adjacent reflected light off of the table surface, rather than direct the light on top of exactly where you are working.

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Reduce Glare from Task Lighting

Tip 6: Glare is another source of fatigue and eye strain so make sure your choice of desk light is not too bright by choosing an output of LED lamp that is not more than 500 lumens and preferably with a 3000K color temperature for a clean warm white that is friendly and a step back from the usual harsher cleaner 4000K office lighting. This is especially important if you are working on a shiny surface.

Tip 7: If your working space is temporary then consider clip on lighting on an adjacent shelf that can be plugged into a 13amp socket, even a USB powered desk light that will power off your computer and become an indispensable part of your home office set up.

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Accent Lighting 

The fundamental trio of lighting layers is accent lighting that any residential space should include and probably already does. Accent lighting adds a dimension of light that creates interest and beauty for the eye and is actually not a frivolous addition because it’s your home but an element included even in corporate offices. 

Create Visual Stimulus

There is an association between wellbeing and higher productivity from happier workers and no less so for you in your own home. Accent lighting contributes to the general lighting as well as creating a more considered backdrop for the attendees of your Zoom calls!

Tip 8: Try lighting artwork, lighting shelving and ornaments, light an alcove or empty fireplace – anything to create visual interest.

Best Home Office Lighting for Computer Work

5 Tips for Working at a Screen:

• To minimise eye strain ensure the space behind the screen is lit to harmonise the appearance of the screen and the room or wall behind.
• Screens are reflective surfaces that will mirror brighter sources of light potentially creating glare. Avoid bright sources of light such as downlighters positioned just behind you as your seated position could pick up the reflected source light of the downlight in the screen.
• Avoid dark paint colors on walls in front of you as light is absorbed more by darker colors increasing the difference between screen and room.
• Shadow free lighting across the working surface in front of the screen will unify the lit working surface and the screen.
• Adjust the color temperatures within the screen using software or the PC’s settings to create a dark mode for night time use. Reduce the amount of blue light from the screen in the evening to sync with the bodies natural rhythm.

Best Lighting for Home Office Video Conferencing

Tip 14: Home office lighting for video conferencing and Zoom calls should be treated in much the same way a face is best lit in a mirror. The goal is an even wash of light across the face with minimal shadowing and bright enough for the webcam to portray a naturally lit face that shows the warmth of skin tones.

Tip 15: Practise having the right light on your face at the location you usually hold video calls from. Easily adopt pro video lighting techniques for your Zoom calls by reading our zoom-call-lighting/” data-type=”URL” data-id=”https://quickandeasylighting.com/zoom-call-lighting/” target=”_blank”>Best Zoom Call Lighting Tips to Look Great From Home

Andrew Orange, the owner of Orange Lighting qualified and worked as an interior designer in 1993 before specialising in lighting working on high profile projects based in London. Since starting Orange Lighting Ltd in 2003 he has been sharing his knowledge and unique teaching style mostly to his designer clients, offering practical real life advice born from running a busy consultancy and lighting supply business. Launching in 2020, his blog has evolved into Quick & Easy Lighting, curating some 25 years design experience into making the lighting choice and design process achievable and easy to understand for all.