Consider these 4 help tips when your design your home office lighting to make your office a comfortable and well lit space.

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2. Keeping You On Task: Home Office
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Keeping You On Task: Home Office
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When lighting your home
office, you will need to carefully
consider both the placement
and style of the lights that you
choose for ease of seeing and to
maximize productivity.
Your home office should have
good, overall lighting with
strategically placed task,
ambient, and accent lights.
Most importantly, your home
office should be a comfortable
atmosphere where you feel
motivated to work.
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3. Keeping You On Task: Home Office
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Keeping You On Task: Home Office
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Overhead Lights
The overhead lighting you choose should evenly light
your entire office without causing glare. Ceiling fixture
choices include recessed lighting or track lighting.
Recessed lighting fixtures such as downlights are
installed in the ceiling with the aperture flush with the
ceiling for an unobtrusive installation.
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4. Keeping You On Task: Home Office
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Keeping You On Task: Home Office
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Overhead Lights
Track lighting is useful because it can be directed at a
specific area and double as task lighting. Another option
is to install a ceiling fan with a lighting component – a
useful combination to provide air circulation as well as
general room lighting.
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5. Keeping You On Task: Home Office
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Keeping You On Task: Home Office
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The Desk Lamp
In an office, the desk lamp will be the most important
light fixture you have. There are many different styles of
desk lamps to choose from. One popular type is a swing
arm, adjustable desk lamp.
The adjustable arm feature allows the user to reposition
the light to suit the task. If energy efficiency is your goal
(and price is not a limitation) look for an LED desk
lamp.
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Keeping You On Task: Home Office
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Additional Lighting Ideas
An office needs more than just overhead lighting and
task lighting, to create a comfortable atmosphere
supplement the overhead ceiling and desk fixtures
with one or two additional portable lamps.
Choose shades that are semi--translucent to provide
a soft diffuse quality of light in the room.
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Keeping You On Task: Home Office
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Additional Lighting Ideas
For a fun approach to ambient lighting, try a SunJar. You
place the SunJar in your windowsill, and it gathers energy
from the sun throughout the day. At night, the Mason jar
style lamp glows for a few hours before needing to be
recharged in the next day’s sun.
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Keeping You On Task: Home Office
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Accent Lights
You can also utilize accent lights to draw attention to
specific decorations in your office. Using track lights or
picture lights to accent paintings or framed diplomas and
certificates will add more ambient light to your office as
well as showing your visitors your accomplishments.
There are many varieties of accent lighting, including
downlighting, uplighting, and cabinet lighting.
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