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Home Sweet Circadian Home🏡

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Home Sweet Circadian Home🏡

🪶 What might an informed interior designer say about making your home more circadian-effective?

Oct 21, 2021
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Home Sweet Circadian Home🏡

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I hope your day is off to a great start! Last weekend, Energies published a literature review about designing buildings for circadian rhythmicity. This info is meant help architects design for better visual and non-visual light cues. It's amazing and forward-thinking, and will likely be regulated in the future.

Circadian-effective Interior Design

But for the rest of us here and now, what can we glean from these insights? Here are some tips for existing homes and buildings:

  • Remove exterior elements that block sunlight from the windows.

  • Move furniture and workstations closer to windows. Face things so eyes naturally point towards (or perpendicular to) windows.

  • Cover walls with neutral tones and reflective paint to increase indirect light.

  • Install overhead lights (choose bright ones, like the sun!).

  • Choose light-colored shading devices that don't block the sky (such as horizontal blinds).

  • Use night-specific lights with red/amber tones and low lux. They recommend <10 lux for the 3 pre-bedtime …

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