Acoustic Lighting Overview
Did you know lighting can impact workplace productivity? The Mayo Clinic reports that glare and uncomfortably bright light are the two leading causes for eyestrain. An improved lighting design can result in a 23% productivity boost. Another thing that impacts workplace happiness and productivity: noise. It seems like independent offices have become a thing of […]
Easy Ways to Improve Hotel Lighting
Hotel lighting is easily overlooked but, it’s an essential element of a hotel’s design and atmosphere. Good lighting sometimes doesn’t stand out – but bad lighting always will. Cold, fluorescent lighting can feel severe and leave your guests feeling tense while warm, well-placed lighting can create a feeling of serenity and calm. Making better lighting […]
3 Benefits of Hiring a Professional Lighting Designer
Hiring a professional lighting designer is the key to creating the right ambiance and making the space functional and beautiful. When it comes to lighting, you may not notice it when it’s done right – but you’ll definitely notice it when it’s done wrong. Whether you’re lighting a restaurant, art gallery, hotel or café, lighting […]
How to Light a Hotel Room
Lighting a Hotel Room One of the most important elements of interior design is lighting. Lighting can be the key to setting the right ambiance and mood. In a hotel, there are a variety of different spaces with different uses: the lobby, conference room, hallways, guest rooms, etc. At Seascape Lamps in California, we specialize […]
What is Acoustic Lighting?
At first glance the words “acoustic” and “lighting” may seem to have little to do with one another. After all, acoustic has to do with sound and lighting is well, lighting. But acoustic lighting is where these two worlds collide. The aim of acoustic lighting is to reduce and dampen noise. Modern architecture and popular […]
Lighting Tips for Restaurants: Interior Design Guide
An interior designer can put in hundreds of hours of hard work designing a restaurant, picking the perfect tables, comfortable chairs, shiny cutlery and high end dishware. But, if the lighting is off or inadequate, all the hard work is easily overlooked. Besides the functionality of lighting to read a menu or navigate the floorplan, […]
8 Tips for Hotel Lighting Design
Hotel Lighting Design If you’ve ever stayed in a hotel with bad lighting, you know just how important lighting can be. Harsh, fluorescent glows make an immediate negative first impression. Lights can make a hotel look more like a hospital than a place you want to relax and unwind for the weekend. The right hotel […]
4 Styles of Restaurant Lighting
Restaurant Lighting Ideas We all love unwinding at a nice restaurant to indulge in good food and hopefully good conversation, but did you ever find yourself attracted to a particular dining establishment because of the way it looks or how it makes you feel? Restaurant ambiance is important because it sets the tone for the […]
How Lighting Can Make A Hotel Feel Like Home
Every owner knows that a hotel has to feel like a home for a night away. It’s easy enough to pin all of your hopes of achieving this on things like how soft the beds are, how polite the staff is, and how many channels are on the TV, but there’s more to it than […]
Lighting Affects the Restaurant Experience
Many things factor into the perfect dinner out. Ingredients, technique, service, and environment have to come together in perfect harmony to make an experience worthy of leaving the house. The food itself feels like an obvious given, but it’s easy to overlook the massive impact that environment can have on a meal. According to a […]
