F eeling put upon or stressed, experiencing increased irritability and non-specific testiness? If this sounds familiar, you may be suffering from bad lighting. Ill-positioned wall washers, dim reading lamps, over-island kitchen lights that bash your forehead, pendants as bright as stadium lights — all these contribute to unease.

An infuriating aspect of creating a lighting scheme is that it is impossible to tell, before moving into a property and living in the rooms, what will suit, yet the placement of wired-in lighting must be one of the first decisions of a project. Worse still, a configuration that was perfect for two years ago could be irksome now. Our lighting needs to change as we alter the way we use our interiors, where we perform daily tasks

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