We have a narrow north-south facing mid-terrace house. The ground floor has two long narrow rooms - kitchen and living room, which ajoin each other.
Our kitchen faces south, and is mostly white with pale flooring and lots of windows so is very bright.
In contrast, our living room faces north, only has a bay window at one end. It has original wooden flooring and dark wood and leather furniture, so even though the walls and soft furnishings are white/cream and we have large mirrors, it always feels noticeably darker than the kitchen.
We're selling our house at the moment and potential buyers have been put off by the "dark" lounge.
Short of a big refurbishment, the only way we have found to even the rooms out is to put daylight bulbs in the two centrally-hanging pendant lights in the living room. That works well, but it is "cool" lighting. As we still want the room to be cosy at night I've left "warm" lights in my living room lamps etc. The kitchen also has "warm" lighting for night time, as does the whole of the rest of the house.
DH thinks we should change all of the lights to cool daylight ones - not least because the estate agent tends to go round and switch all of the lights on before a viewing and having a mix will look odd.
Do people ever use "cool" lighting at night? Does anyone have a whole house with just "cool" lights and no warm ones?
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