Getting the lighting right in your home office is key to maximising productivity and your eye comfort throughout the day. Inadequate levels of light can cause eye strain and headaches. Whilst dimly lit lighting can have an impact on your overall productivity and mood. It's definitely one factor of a home office you can't afford to not get right.

How To Light Your Home Office

To help you optimise your working from home office or space, we discuss the different lighting options available for your home office.

Do You Have Natural Lighting?

Firstly, if you have access to natural lighting this will definitely impact the way that the room is lit.

Sunlight can produce fantastic working conditions. If you are able to benefit from natural light you should position your desk in front or next to the window to avoid screen glare. To accommodate varying levels of light during the day, install a blind or shutters. This can help to block out the glare when needed.

Task Lighting

Whether it's computer focused work, writing or for other focus intensive tasks, task lighting will greatly improve the clarity and precision of your work. Task lighting provides increased levels of light in a specific area when needed.

This can be achieved in a number of different ways. Using a table lamp is a popular choice. Especially one that is tiltable as it can be moved and adjusted accordingly when needed, and moved when it's no longer required.

Not only are downlights fantastic for drenching a room in light, high CRI titltable downlights situated over the area of work can provide a great form of task lighting when required. High CRI not only lets you see the true colour of objects as they are meant to be, but can also give better contrast which in turn aids tasks where clarity is helpful such as reading, artwork of needle craft. Studies have also linked higher CRI to improved temperament and productivity. Given that such light is more natural to humans, it is not difficult to see why.

Check The Colour Temperature of Your Bulbs

Colour temperature describes the appearance of the colour that is given off by the bulb. It is recorded in kelvins on a scale from 1000-10,000. It's very important to get the colour temperature of bulbs correct, especially in a home office where you spend a large proportion of your day concentrating.

A colour temperature around 1800k gives off a warm, orangey glow. This is usually favoured in living spaces to create a cosy, ambient setting in the evenings. To provide adequate levels of light for a home office, a high colour temperature between 4100k cool white and 4600k which is the closest to daylight is suitable for areas where full visibility is required.

When choosing your bulbs look out for the colour temperature before ordering. The right type of lighting will provide a comfortable place for your eyes to work in all day.

Decorative Lighting

Whilst practicality is key with lighting a home office, adding a touch of style will keep you enjoying your work space, day after day. It's going to be one of the most used rooms of the house, you might as well make it look good too!

You might want to add decorative or accent lighting to the room to provide depth and character to the space. They don't have to provide the main source of light. Accent lighting could be used above artwork or other items. Whilst decorative lighting could be brought in through way of a wall sconce or pendant light.

The Claridge Polished Brass Wall Light would look fantastic in a home office for visual appeal. You could situate them on either side of a desk for optimum impact and light.

These lighting ideas will help you to effectively light your home office. Providing maximum light and visibility to keep you comfortable and focused during your working day.