Natural
light is an aspect which determines the quality of light in daytime in your
home. Generally as per sun movement, if your home has windows facing North, you
will have an ambient natural light but sun rays may not enter your home. If your
home has windows facing south or west, you will get sun rays inside your home.
If your home has windows towards east , you will get sun rays only in morning.
So before deciding which side to buy the home, it will be wiser to understand
the orientation factor. Many a times in apartment blocks, some rooms open
towards the duct, mostly kitchens. A duct in a tall building will not bring
natural light in the room as duct will be always in shadows. In a situation
like if few internal walls are avoided, you can get Natural light coming from
the other face which has windows. Recently we customized an apartment for our
friend Ar. Jaineel Trivedi. He had bought a wonderful apartment in Kondwa with
a large terrace next to Living room. As he also is an Iskon devotee, he has
regular ‘kirtans’ in his house. Hence he wanted to merge his terrace in the
living room, so that more people can use the outside space for sitting on
occasions when his living room will be full. The original pattern of a window
& small door to enter the living room was changed to accommodate a large
glazed door.
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| Original wall pattern of Window & door to terrace |
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| Large glazed door connecting Living room to Terrace |
Though his interior work is still in progress, you can see in the comparable
photographs above how the light quality increases.
His kitchen has less light
because it opens in a duct. Here we have used white tiles all over the walls so
that whatever light comes in reflects.
Use of colour in Interiors depends
totally on two principle facts:
1) What is the size of the room – If you use dark colors in a small
size room, the room will appear smaller & vice versa. Many a times people
ask carpenters to apply dark polish on all furniture items or purchase objects
of dark color for their rooms. Dark polish & dark color laminates will make
your rooms look smaller in size.
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| Small kitchen with light colors |
2) The quality of natural light in the room – Bright colors usually bring a cheerful mood. Colors
like Red & Blue look great only if the walls on which they are applied have
enough natural light falling on it. Otherwise they will appear blackish on dark
lit walls. Yellow or Orange , due to more wave lengths
can look good even though applied on walls with less natural light.
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| A house where we highlighted a wall in Living room which made the entire environment cheerful  Yellow & Orange changed the feel of Space |
Simple strategy for our houses with
mid size or small rooms will be – Have Plenty of Natural light & have very light
colors for walls & furniture. Use colors only to highlight a wall .
