Why every kitchen suddenly got cold 

This video made me realize that the popularity of dark academia is a reaction to the fact that most of us have had all of our educational experiences conducted under fluorescent lighting.

I'm an electrician and I get a lot of customers that are unhappy with their LED lighting for the same reasons you describe in this video. LEDs can look just fine and create the right ambiance in your room if you install them correctly. They are also far safer, non-toxic, don't produce heat, and are up to 9x more energy efficient than older styles of light bulbs. I see a lot of homes where the wiring is burnt from halogen lights, causing a fire hazard. Due to the high power draw of incandescent bulbs, people overdraw their circuits, causing more fire hazards and costly repairs. Compact fluorescent bulbs contain mercury gas and are highly toxic if broken. Please just stick with LEDs. If you are unhappy with their appearance, consider the color temperature, lumen output, and diffusion of the LED bulb. Low color temperatures like 2700K or even 2100K can make a room much, much warmer. Higher ones like 5000K can look ultra bright and sterile like a hospital. Many LED fixtures can change their color temperature with the flick of a switch built in to the top of them. Read the lumen output on the box before buying your lightbulb. Lumens are a measurement of light output, but a lot of consumers don't understand what a lumen is, so manufacturers will say "65 watt equivalent" or such on the package so you can compare it to the light output of an incandescent. However, this a poor comparison. Just think of 250 lumens as dim, 500-600 as medium, and 1000 or more as bright. Finally, think about how the light is being diffused. Is the glass frosted or not? What shape is it? Is the lens glass or plastic? How thick is the plastic? Is there a baffle in front of the lens or diffuser that spreads the light? Please try to learn more about how to make LEDs work for you. Save your electric bill, save yourself from costly repairs and fire hazards, and save yourself from having annoying electricians like me show up to your door and lecture you for hundreds of dollars and hour.

I used to frequent a coffee shop and it was soo cozy with red velvet booths and carpeted floors. They renovated it with white floor tile, grey granite countertops and of course the cool lighting... my welcomed and comfortable coffee shop, turned into a tired and rushed corporate office. I never returned after it re-opened.

To anyone who doesn't just hate cool-toned light but also has an issue with "warm-toned LED" because they still make everything appear desaturated and sad: look for a high CRI! (Color rendering index) A high CRI (97 or higher) indicates that there is a good amount of red light, which will in turn bring out the warmer tones in your skin, your surroundings... once I changed my bathroom lightbulbs, I looked so much more alive and healthy, it was baffling. This is something that galleries and museums prioritise too, since showing colour well and evenly is important. I'd rather light my home like an art gallery than a hospital. A lot of companies do not indicate what the CRI even is. Steer clear and look for the ones who declare it, demonstrating that they actually care about light quality as much as you do!

Ugh, I hate cold light indoors. Give me the old Gilmore Girls esthetic. When I'm at home by myself, my living room is lit by a single lamp with a warm bulb. Plus a reading light if I'm feeling retro and reading an actual book. If I should win the lottery and be able to feel comfortable about spending some real money on renovating my bathroom, I'm going for the warm look in there, too. And a tub, I guess, because in a bathroom like that, I wouldn't mind hanging out for a few hours.

The worst lighting situation is always fluorescents in changing rooms.

Star Trek: The Next Generation went in the opposite direction. For the first two seasons, the show had a hard, high contrast lighting style. When Melvin Rush took over running the camera in Season 3, the lighting look for became more theatrical, with pools of light around the characters and more shadowy backgrounds. That became the signature look of the series.

The fact that I hadn't personally pinpointed this change in lightbulbs and connected it to the shift from wood to white/grey... AHHHHHHHHHHHH... I literally had ALL of this knowledge, some of it professionally... and never put it together. I knew it was a thing for ME to consider. Never put it together as part of larger trends. Thank you!

We needed 2 new lightbulbs in our bathroom. My husband replaced all 6 bulbs in the fixture with a much whiter light, I immediately recoiled and he had to get new bulbs of a softer color. So I totally understand how you felt about your kitchen. The change must have been shocking and off putting.

You know where LED's make me the saddest? On my pre-lit christmas tree. I remember the magical sparkle of the tiny lights making the ornaments come alive back in the incandescent days. Now the lights light themselves, but the ornaments are in the shadows somehow, even amongst all that light. I know LED's have improved, but I don't know whether they can produce that glow and sparkle I remember.

Ok I just realized why I always hated sitcoms even growing up--the lighting! It didn't encourage intimacy or realness no, it was cold one liners being delivered under a disorienting sky that made me feel like I was one of those yellow posts in-between worlds. The lighting and the characters somehow mirroring eachother's vapid souls that gave me existential crisis feelings even as a young kid. I have a million other reflections on lighting too that this sparked/validated inside my mood lighted soul. Spiritual!

This video gave me an epiphany about my childhood. My family joined an Amish cult for a few years, and even though I'm aware that many aspects of our life then were messed up, I still remember the spaces I inhabited then as feeling very idyllic and warm. Guess what they were lit with? Sunlight, oil lamps, and Coleman-style gas lamps. Of course they felt cozy and magical.

theatrical lighting designer here and i love this! color temperature affects our lives in so many ways!

I went to university in Glasgow so not only am i super familiar with Kelvin since everything ever is named after him, my enduring image of him is his sitting statue in Kelvingrove park that always and forever had a traffic cone on it (the university is right next door, also Glaswegians have a sense of humour), he always looked like a wizard on a throne.

Okay, you’re spot on! This is something I’ve literally had to convince people of…and when they see it, it’s a game changer. I’m sensitive to light, and cold temp lighting is a soul sucking thing…grew up in the 80s where incandescent bulbs were still king, and that’s how I light my place today. Warm temp is so much nicer, and people who visit, feel cozy and comfortable here. Great vid, enjoy your content!

I do so agree with you here - when I moved into my apartment I couldn't figure out why I never wanted to be in my Kitchen, I cooked there and left, that's it. But then it dawned on me, it was painted white and had glossy white cupboards with only one strong light from above so it was just so cold and uninviting - So I painted it warm yellow and put lots of colourful pictures on the wall and put little warm lamps in every corner and now it's so cosy and warm and I love it there.

These reasons are all why I swear my smart bulbs that have a wide range of colors. Yes, they are expensive, but when you get migraines and have lots of mental health problems, it’s great to have total control over the exact tone and brightness of your house lighting. I’m all for a warm yellowish light most of the time, though. This was such a great video!

I have noticed this. I really feel like this is part of why the world feels so different from my childhood, everywhere.

I always noticed that the lighting changed on GG, but never knew the details. The departure of the cinematographer midway during S5 is when my love for the show wanes. I think everyone looks good in amber lighting and my home is filled with bubbles of soft, warm light. So much so, that a friend who prefers to live in 10000K light said my place was a cave.

Switching out all the bulbs in my apartment was the best decision ever. Now everything is warm & everyone looks pretty lol.

As a (probably too) passionate proponent of warm light I really enjoyed this, including the deep dive into the last 100 years of lightbulbs. Side note, Can we also acknowledge how disturbing the cool LED twinkle Christmas lights are? My kingdom for them warm incandescents!!

I wonder if this bright, cool lighting helped contribute to the trend of organizing/displaying things in homes like a store (TikTok pantries, closets) or if the lighting was chosen because it's more store-like?

they switched out the streetlamp near my bedroom window with an LED a few years ago, and i’m still shocked by it some nights. it feels like there’s a helicopter search light outside, instead of the comforting honey-coloured light that was there before.

Another bit of info: white LED light is a known trigger for migraines.I didn't know this until I thought I was being creative several years ago at Christmas. I twined a length of green garland with white LED Christmas lights and draped this around the large doorway into our living room. Had a migraine every day for a week. Turns out there are multiple articles out there on LED lights and migraine, and yet no warnings are listed on the labels. Something to consider if one is prone to migraines.

A friend and I moved into a new place in august and the lights in the kitchen had two bulbs out. I always prefer warmer lights so I bought the warm versions of the bulbs and when we turned them all on my roommate and I audibly gasped. It was just so much warmer and more inviting it was actually unbelievable!

I’m highly sensitive to colour temperature (well, to everything really) and being in spaces that are not warm feeling make me straight up depressed. I have been debating taking on the huge, expensive task of repainting since the lavender colour I chose hasn’t felt right, and too cool. Now I realise the issue might be with the lighting, not the wall colour, so thank you so much for another equally entertaining and informative video, and I will be replacing my bulbs.

My biggest lighting advice? Turn off your overhead lights and get lamps and led strips. Ambient lighting instantly makes me feel more relaxed and makes me like my surroundings more. Also if you want warm lights that aren't yellow, i would recommend GE Reveal Led lights. They're pink tinted instead of yellow, but still warm and soft. Great video! Loved it as someone who's obsessed with lighting

15:40 “the heart of where the magic happens in the home” 😂 I see we still have PTSD from all the AD home tours

1910s Ladies Home Journals are a DAMN GOOD TIME

I’m grateful that my parents hated overhead lights. We weren’t at all fancy but we ate dinner every night with a kerosene light in the center of the table. No, I’m not 150 years old 😂 my parents just liked the light. I don’t like overhead lights and fluorescent lights give me migraines. So I’m finding this fascinating. Thank you!

Nice discussion! I think the other big impact that lighting can have is due to the lighting CRI or color rendering index. While there are some better metrics, this is the most common one that you can look for as a consumer, and it will tell you how well the bulb will show colors compared to an ideal light source like the sun or an incandescent bulb. Many cheap CFL and LED bulbs have terrible CRIs so everything looks dull and uninviting. Reds are especially dull under these lights. I strongly suggest that everyone looks for LED bulbs not only with the appropriate color temperature, but also with a high CRI. Phillips Ultra Definition are great bulbs all around, and they aren't that expensive either.

When a cosy, local Italian joint renovated, they updated their chairs to the WORST back breaker (but esthetically pleasing) metal, made to look like wood. My friend group, who had previously hung out there countless times. We went back once, tipped well, went home and wrote polite cards predicting their downfall, and the reason. We wanted to stay. We wanted to try all the appies, order more wine off the lovely new cellar. We would have stayed for all the desserts and espressos and after dinner cordials. This was our joint, we adored it, and we WANTED to stay and bling out. But our backs and a$$es couldn't take it. Halfway through dinner we asked for to-go boxes and got the hell out of there as fast as we could. We reconnoitered at a coffee shop nearby and consoled each other. We resolved to each go back and let them know why we didn't enjoy what should have been a bomb-ass time together. Turns out, this was not a bug, but a feature. The new manager told one in our group that table turnover was too slow prior to the renovation, so they purposely purchased chairs that were less comfortable. Because they can't ask people to leave, only hint at it. We argued that the cost per patron should increase rather than try to turn the tables over like a greasy spoon diner. We didn't go there to feel chased away. They lost lifetime patrons over some shītty chairs and a dumb business idea. Out beloved cosy spot went under in less than 4 months. Rather than swap out the chairs, they rode that pony all the way to the grave. They had opened for the holidays and were closed by Easter. The food was fantastic! But it was torture to dine in. What a waste. Oh - the lighting in the renovation was designed by a local theater company - it was exquisite! But alas, not enough to ensure repeat customers.

This video arrived at a critical time for me. I'm contemplating a lighting upgrade for my Tiny Double-Long Cozy Van (or Class A RV) from 1990. It is impressively cozy in here with lots of carpeting and incandescent lights. It looks like a Meth Lab on the outside, but it is super comfy inside. I wasn't previously appreciating the importance, and contributory cuteness, of the incandescent color temperature. Thank you so much for illuminating my knowledge gap! I loved the copper pipe in your old kitchen.

That's a great insight that cool LEDs led to the shift away from wood colors. I've been using 2700K LEDs everywhere since day 1 so I never made that connection.

You are absolutely brilliant! No pun intended. 😂 I can’t believe you made the transition from Gilmore Girls to light bulbs to Kelvin to homemakers! 🙌🙌🙌

When we moved into our new place a couple of years ago, we gave a lot of thought to the lighting when renovating. Basically, we have two types of lights: 2700K lights and 4500K lights. When we need to see things clearly or want to be more awake, we use the 4500K lights. In the early mornings and evenings, though--especially when it is approaching bedtime--we exclusively use the 2700K lights. We also use the 2700K lights when we have guests over because we don't want our flat to look like an office. We have both types of light in the bathroom as well, because if I happen to wake up in the middle of the night and need to use the bathroom, I don't want to be blinded. I use the 4500K light when I am taking my shower to help me wake up.

I always thought this when my house switched from yellow to fluorescent lighting around 2006 when I was 12. My dad always seemed to think of it as an upgrade because of the energy saving, lets just say he's a lot less sensitive about aesthetics than i am.

You are my favorite creator, bar none. Where you LED, I will follow.

This channel is the most niche thing ever and I adore it. ❤❤❤ I bought the Not So Big House book I saw on one of her recent videos and I’m so glad I did. Literally 1/2 the reason I watch these videos is for the book recommendations.

It’s crazy that you posted this today. I generally believe the colder lights go with colder colors, so I was using cold lights in my kitchen where there’s a slight bluish tint to the paint. But I decided that I just like warm lights so much better and they go better with the wood in the floors anyway, so (just today, mind you) switched the bulbs out for warm bulbs.

I love how this video came together. I need to buy some lightbulbs.

I liked how you used your own kitchen as an example! It was also interesting to see how you analyzed Architectural Digest kitchens, Home Edit, and how brighter lighting makes decor "hard mode".

you're "oh... i'll let him know" during the kelvin bit was impeccable

New subscriber. You are iconic! Love the Gilmore Girls examples. I think a large change in the seasons lighting also had to do with their transition from film to digital which happened in season 6-7 I believe. ASP held out for quite a while, and the look makes a difference.

I love your videos on a more human approach to architecture, Kendra 💚

I always use warm lighting in my living room. But I noticed that when. I am crafting. I constantly feel like it's too dark. Once I changed my light bulbs to a more blue toned light, it suddenly felt brighter.

The term “fill light” is a method which brings out the shadows. White balance is what changes the yellow in a picture, bringing it up from blue.. So it seems to me Season 7 has too much fill and the white balance changed. And I agree, because I like soft yellows too, Adding to this fluorescents, oh my! They flicker and I’m highly sensitive to that. I have a headache if I’m in a room with a fluorescent and no one can understand why. Then the LED hurts my eyes.

This is fascinating. I’d noticed cooler lights trending and the cold/white/minimalist trend but never connected the two! It makes sense though that as cool LED bulbs get into homes, people shift to cool-toned decor. I think the rise in social media and people taking photos of themselves has made a big difference too- while in person warm lighting is cozy and pleasant, in photos it can easily be too dark and make you look jaundiced, while bright cool lighting works better for trendy Instagram pics. A hotel in my hometown that did a lot of conventions actually changed their carpeting and lighting to be bluer/cooler because of how much people complained about their photos turning out poorly! I’m definitely going to play with lighting more in my new apartment, warm lighting is a lifesaver in the long winter months here too

Your videos continue to be a gem in my subscription list. I wish there was a reason for you and Technology Connections to do a colab but it would be 20 minutes about very strong christmas light opinions.

Can always tell the newer younger apartment condo residents moving in...they put 6000k LED bulbs in everything, and every window looks like there is some sort of construction project going on inside!

Last year I changed all my light bulbs and nightlights to yellow/amber and it has been actually life changing This video was fascinating. Thank you

Oh there's an equivalent of Lahaina Noon I found - ""daylight"" in the polar circle during the dark month of the year. Because sunlight reflects around the clouds and snow, it scatters and becomes really even. Even if the sun never actually rises, there's still light, and it's this hazy no shadows as if you turned off the graphics kinda light.

I don’t know if you’re going to see this but one of the most beautifully lit TV shows in history is “That ‘70s Show”. Absolutely gorgeous use of light that Gen-xers like myself are very nostalgic for b/c warm and sunny interiors are what we grew up in.

Those fluorescent lights at the grocery store give me a headache, I try to get in and out of there fast. I never allow cold light inside my home, it’s gotta be cozy even if it’s a bit dimmer.

"now thats a power bottom" the gasp i gusp

Loved this video! I remember my mind being blown the first time I saw someone with a really cute lamp on their kitchen countertop… I was like “wait… yes… cozy!!!” Most of my time going into the kitchen is to make a cup of coffee or tea, to grab a snack, or to get water. It’s nice to make it a super cozy and relaxing space for that! Why not treat it, at least part of the time, like a part of your home that you want to feel relaxed in?

As someone who had severe body dysmorphic disorder from like 12-about now (just starting to get over it at 32), I know everything & anything about warm lighting & the perils of 'cool' daylight (such to the extent I 'accidentally' broke/said it didn't work anymore a $5 cool daylight globe "whoops", oh but look I have already bought a warm white replacement - and suddenly everyone in the family was saying how much better everything looked). I truly wish it was illegal (or v. difficult) to buy cool daylightbulbs, they are so awful & unnatural, they' give me panic/depression attacks if i had to walk through an area lit by them. Horrible, aeful things, as are the people that claim you need to have super bright lighting for your employees to work (at night, no less). Ugly & anxiety inducing coldness!

I accidentally switched out a lightbulb in my room with a LED one and recoiled in horror. The color of my room with that light on was SO unsettling. I learned a valuable lesson about using warmer temps.

Oh my gosh!! You just explained the rise and fall of gray.

When the switch to LED light bulbs happened, my family stocked up on traditional light bulbs because everyone hated the new white light. Now some LEDs have warmer light but it's still not quite right. So now the lampshades are often tinted with a warm yellow-beige which gives the overall effect a warm light bulb did. Of course, there are lots of cold-light lamps too, for people who like it. I have yet to see them in a family home, they seem to be more of a bachelor/young couple thing

What a fabulous recap of how homes got less cozy! I love love love this video - thank you!

We put in a 3000k light in our kitchen, and it was one of those drop ceiling panel lights. Holy shit, I can’t imagine what the CRI was, but everything was GREEN. Now I have nice warm spotlights, what and insane difference it made in the winter months.

I'm working on my house and its decoration so that's such a very informative video ! I understand better why I prefer warmer tones for everything. Warmer lights, unpainted wooden furniture, beige and wood-like wallpaper,... Wouldn't change a thing ! I live for the cosy vibes.

I swear you are one of the best channels i follow!

This video is one half typical Kendra Gilmore Girls content and one half Technology Connections. 10/10

Miss... (Or Mrs...) You definitely won me over. Not only the subject is flawlessly painted (or should I say flawlessly Lit?), not only that, but your narration is simply a joy to hear. The voice tone, the expressions, the puns, everything is in the right place. And before I leave, let me compliment you for the subject itself. Lighting, and moreover the "warm" lighting is one of the subjects that are least understood by the average people. Since years (or decades must I say) I've been number one enemy of whitish light. If it's anything above 5000k, it doesn't get anywhere near my home. But I especially loved your depiction of "light pools" (or the book writer's you quoted... Anyway). I always loved lamp lighting, or "abat jour" as we say it here in Brasil (inherited from the French), in opposition to overhead lighting, but I really never saw the concept so well described. Thank you for those lovely minutes and for bringing up to the public a subject that could certainly lower the suicide rate amongst people. Well done!

Architecture and design were never something I thought about or noticed much prior to watching your channel but now I consider it often, thanks for sharing your knowledge and enthusiasm for the topic.

When we moved into my current place right before the pandemic started, I quickly looked through all the lights in the house that I could and replaced them with LEDs if there were any incandescents (or too cool toned LEDs) still around for keeping costs down (and cooling excess heat). We have this big gaudy mid 90s chandelier in the staircase that has way more lightbulbs than is necessary, and all the bathrooms have the 5-6 socket light fixtures above the large mirror. I only kept around two of those lightbulbs in use, spread out on the edges of the sockets for best lighting. When I ran out of warm LED light bulbs and only had some cooler older LED lights left, it was a game of swap/match to strategically remove extra light bulbs from unnecessary spots like the chandelier, match bulb colour tones and designate any cooler toned LEDs that were still necessary lighting to places like the outside patio light we just turn on to do recycling or the storage hallway corner that gets packed with stuff so the light gets dimmed anyways. We also have 4 smaller versions of the crystal gaudy chandeliers our main floor that still had incandescent bulbs for the first year 'cause they weren't the standard bulb size but instead two different smaller bulb sizes. 😒 The first summer in the place we avoided using those light fixtures at all because with 4-6 bulbs per fixture, you could *feel* the added heat radiating from those bulbs soon after turning them on. Thankfully IKEA had a warm-toned LED lightbulb sale the following year with the right sized smaller lightbulbs around 25 cents USD each. We got so many bulbs! And am very glad we were able to replace them affordably.

im just happy that my favorite lighting and gilmore girls youtuber is also based and walkable-pilled

Thank you for adding another voice to those of us who have been screaming from the top of our kitchen countertops that lighting matters! I could never understand why so many people wanted to live in the prison world from THX 1138. Between Freshman and Sophomore year the college went through and replaced all the soft diffuse incandescent lighting in the dorm rooms with a single 4 foot dual fluorescent 565 equivalents. Constant flickering and having a roommate coming in late flip on light that singed through your eyelids meant you seldom got to sleep through the night. And yet, so many students wanted this new lighting everywhere! To this day, I push back every time someone claims we are getting better and better light with LED. True natural light is sunlight which includes Infrared radiation. It warms you and you feel it. True natural nighttime light always came from fire which includes infrared radiation. We feel it. That is why LEDs are NOT a replacement for incandescent lighting and will never mimic actual sunlight. This better light campaign is all about money and environmentalism and has nothing to do with better light or our mental and physical health.

The change in lighting brings to mind some other trends I've noticed over the last decade or two. There seems to be a fear of pauses, shadows and gaps influencing some artists. In the GG examples, the background is brought up, filled in, made even with the main subjects. Lamps and fireplaces subdued to match brightness. Nothing stands out! Reminds me of the "Loudness Wars" in audio production. Mix engineers were bringing up the singer, bringing up the guitar solo, bringing up the little drum bit, bringing up the slick synth intro, bringing up the piano in the background between the singing and solos, bringing up EVERYTHING so that nothing stood out. Incessant acoustic power, no relaxed pause between highlights. Made boomboxes seem more powerful. Maybe it was a marketing thing to increase sales among young people with no taste, I suppose. Then in editing, especially what I notice with RU-vid videos, is a style of editing where there's not the tiniest pause between the end of one sentence and the start of the next. No time to mentally swallow what I just heard and already the next bit is shoved in. A fear of gaps? My fellow students and I learned in radio/TV production school to "edit tight!" but not like what I'm hearing. It's unnatural for a speaker to not take a quick breath every few words, and it's just as unnatural for the listener to take in continuous talk with nary a millisecond to absorb it. Likewise, our eyes need a bit of relief in the scene. Michael Price (and almost all competent cinematographers, photographers, and artists) knew how to use a few small-area lights to light the subjects, with shadows, with side lighting, and let the background be visible but subdued, in the background except a few small highlighted objects to make a pleasing composition. A few dark blotchy areas of no-content to help define the important elements of the scene. And let the lamps and fire burn out, clip the signal, to stand out as bright! Seasons 6 & 7 have what looks like more front lighting, not from the side to emphasize contours, but broad area lights illuminating everything fully, clinically, and with too high a color temperature. Lighting of the background that competes with the stars of the show. Ugly!

Very glad someone did a video on this as thoroughly as you did. After rehabbing (literally removing mold and asbestos) my basement, I spent days researching new lighting fixtures. I wanted something warm, color accurate, and NOT OMNI-DIRECTIONAL. PAR lights - often used in floodlight scenarios - pointing downwards illuminates the floor and surfaces but leaves contrasting pools of shadow above and on the walls. It's been a wonderful addition and I'm thoroughly happy down there, now. For rooms where you aren't afforded unfettered access to basement joists so you can tabula-rasa install light fixtures and wiring, track lighting has been a really helpful retrofit solution for all the damned boob-lamps in the home. With PAR or even MR type bulbs, they cast rays of light onto surfaces and leave contrasting shadows on the top of the walls and the ceiling. It's moody. Amber lighting has been really hard to find, though. I bought a set of lightbulbs that were marketed as amber but really just had an orange film on the lens.

Thank you for making the point that it's not the LED technology as such, but the ingrained "highest number is best" shopping impulse. I switched from a mix of incandescents and CF bulbs to warm-toned LEDs that are nicely close in tone and lighting ability to 60W incandescents. Just as well, since almost all my walls are yellow!

When I moved into my house every single bulb was a different temperature including fixtures with multiple bulbs 😂

yep! i realized this a couple years ago when really bright lights in my classes and rooms would just give me headaches, i switched over to those strip led lights for my bedroom and if i needed extra lighting i found a lamp, BAM! my bedroom is now awesome to be in :) whenever i turn on the overhead light i recoil in horror

Interesting video Kendra - nice of you to quote a book by Christopher Alexander. Lighting goes hand in hand with making a space feel “ alive” which is what Alexander touches on in one of his books

I also noticed this issue when I painted a room and loved it, then installed new lighting and suddenly I hated it.

This is another reason "What we do in the shadows" is so great. So "warm" and soothing.

This is why I’ve always appreciated incandescent light bulbs. LEDs have improved for sure, but there’s still nothing nicer than an incandescent light. Well except candlelight.

Thanks! Just moved into a new apartment with the largest kitchen I’ve had in 20 years-and I hate it. I feel like it’s tiny and cramped. Been trying to figure out why. Should have known you and a Pattern Language would have an answer! Seriously, the sheer white cupboards, black countertops, stainless steel appliances and giant overhead light fixture make me feel like a visitor to the morgue.

You have the most concise and impactful writing style, like god damn! I walk away from a 10 minute video feeling like I have hours of follow up research to commence!

Fun fact with a reminder and tips! LED’s make for great grow lights. Reminder: Spring is nearly here, get some seeds and start growing veggies and herbs with a desk lamp! Tip - look into appropriate distances for seedling stages until safe for outdoor planting. Bonus tip - I used a discarded plastic bottle that I poked holes in the cap to gently and neatly water indoors. I know it works, I grew the best tomatoes ever last year starting this way, They were over 12ft tall at the end and I started a little late. Strangely enough, I am planting those seeds today. Happy growing!

Great video and makes so much sense! When we moved into my apartment, my landlords put bright white lights in every hardwired light fixture. Needless to say I NEVER turn any of them on unless there's, like, an emergency. I've spent a lot of money on lamps and warm lights, worth every penny! The thing is that our building was built in the early 1900s/1910s, and originally had gas lighting. I think it must have been so gorgeous with that lighting, especially since I've found remnants of warm dark red paint and linoleum, and really dark stained wood molding and floors from that early era. I've also found remnants of midcentury pale blues and green paints, which is actually what I have repainted the walls to be now. In the early 2000s, the apartments were all painted white, and so on. So you can totally see the layers of paint colors matching up with what was used for lighting at the time.

Girl I love u I’ve been tryna find an explanation for pools of light besides “it’s cozy” for years lol

"they looked like my skin in February"... best description ever!

When I saw this notif I was so pumped to watch another masterpiece but if anyone else posted one of these I would scroll past at an alarming rate. Thank you again for another banger miss girl!!!

Thank you for elucidating this topic so well. Love your content!

I recently discovered your channel and I am incredibly impressed with how capturing your topics and specifically your research is. Thank you so much for answering questions I never had but now I wanted to have - keep up the great work! xoxo

I literally ran out to buy warm bulbs after watching this, my husband loves the atmosphere already!

I have aging eyes, so I find cooler light helpful. I have everything blasted with daylight bulbs in the kitchen, bathroom, and studio. I miss the warm, cozy aesthetic, but it’s so much easier to read packaging and recipes with that laboratory lighting.

Your incredibly dry sense of humour is amazing!

Thank you so much for bringing this topic to light. When I moved to my current home, the previous home owners had 5000K LED lights in every room. The house felt like you were walking around a hospital. I quickly changed them out for 3500K incandescent bulbs, since the LED flicker hurts my eyes. Anyway, if you're feeling like you can't relax in your home, check to see if your bulb temperature is too high.

Necessary topic! I bought my first warm light for my bedroom’s table lamp last year, and It makes a difference when I want lights just to not be in completely dark (which is my favourite mood 🖤). The white one is perfect for when I’m searching for a clothing inside the wardrobe, but when I was just in my bed, it made the walls around me look so monumental it felt claustrophobic. I am biased to say, as I love antiquity, but I really love amber tones, golden, yellow, brown… And for me, amber lights had an affective memory: it was the colour of the street lamps in my childhood (I’m talking about the early 2000, believe me 😂), and I saw the progressive transition of yellow for super bright blue LED lights, so when I pass by a street that still has yellow lamp lights, I feel nostalgic. In addition to the misunderstood people have thinking that super bright lights are nice inside home, here I also need to explain them that “warm lights” are actually cooler than “cold” ones as they expend less energy, because this is a warm country, so no one wants to “warm” up their houses.

Absolutely agree that that your light bulbs are so important! This doesn't really touch on the difference between cheap LED bulbs and high quality daylight ones. I always switch mine out and I love the bright sunlit feeling. I personally hate yellow light in my own home.

I love this unexpected insights on topics of day to day life, you really can make any probable boring topic to a really interesting and funny one.

I remember back in the 70's, how the blue light in the kitchens fluorescent tubes was something i loved.

Omg your sense of humor and delivery kill me! And on top of it all, it’s great content. Brilliant!

Our home is from 1920s. All but 2 fixtures are also from 1920-1940s. So we still have incandescent in some places but i also installed LED bulbs that i can change the colour on. The one comment I get when people come over "omg it feels so warm and cozy in here i love it." I think it also helps that we never, except for my own rooms, did grey and white. It's all cream, browns, warm greens and blues, gold.

In Gilmore girls S5 and after. Once it started looking cold and distant that’s when I stopped watching and I could never pinpoint why until NOW. The lighting practically raised everything in existence to the surface leaving no shadows and that made scenes look flat. It felt like my eyes were being forcibly peeled open to see everything from the dirt on the floor to the gum on the counter. At that point you couldn’t even really focus on the actors, it just looked as if they were floating in the abyss. IT SIMPLY STOPPED LOOKING HOMEY.. The lighting change made it look like every other sitcom

In my kitchen, the chair has scratched the paint on the wall, but I don’t want to repaint or move the chair away from the wall. Those slight imperfections make it a home. ❤