With most of the country having shifted to working from home, it’s become even more important to create a comfortable environment conducive to a productive workday. The quality of the lighting solutions you use for your home office is a key aspect in creating the ideal workspace at home. Good lighting helps lower stress levels, reduce eye strain and headaches and generally improves how effectively you work.

Here are some tips to have the best lighting in your home office.

Use a desk lamp

A desk lamp is a great and well-defined source of direct lighting for your focus-intensive tasks. It illuminates your desk well, supporting a variety of tasks as the light goes where you need it most. Set up the desk lamp at the opposite side of your dominant hand to minimise shadows.

Create indirect lighting

For more effective lighting in the office, it’s best to create it with layers. Aside from having direct task lighting, set up lighting around the space around your desk. A floor lamp can be useful for diffusing the ambient light, reducing the contrast and glare that would otherwise be present in a room with just a single light source. A smart floor lamp can help in softening and scattering the harsh light, making the lighting easier on the eyes.

Utilise other lighting options around the room

Create a completely illuminated workspace without undue glares and contrast by incorporating decorative lighting around the room. For example, using a LED strip light to light up the backside of your monitor provides bias lighting that reduces contrast between the light of the screen and ambient light, thereby also reducing eye strain. 

To make the room not only functional but also aesthetically pleasing, you can use LED wall lights to highlight other elements in the room or act as the visual element themselves.  

Get great lighting solutions from Brilliant Lighting!

Brilliant Lighting, a leader in smart light solutions, has a range of lighting products that give you both convenience and comfort. Easy to install and simple to operate, our products can help create a comfortable and effective work-from-home experience for you, and with the BrilliantSmart app, you can control them through a single interface.

Interested? For enquiries and more information, don’t hesitate to contact us or visit our lighting stores today. Make your home a true smart home with Brilliant Lighting!