Chandeliers and chandelier lighting have been a source of aggravation for me. My wife thinks we should get two – one for the landing and the other for the dining room. I can’t seem to even understand the need for one, much less two. But because my wife has been right on more than just a few occasions when it comes to home decorating, so I decided to be smart about it and do some research before I put my size 13 in my mouth again.
Well as it turns out, chandelier lighting is good for you – well to be more specific, its good for your eyes unlike other light fixtures or movable lamps like, let’s say, flush mount lighting. Never would I have considered it in a million years. This is what I found out in the end. It turns out that white light is not good for the retina in your eyes. Direct light from the bulb has the tendency to scar the retina and slowly impair your eyesight.
All the design matters aside, a chandelier diffuses and breaks light down so that the resulting emanations are broken ever so gently to their constituent colors. When the colored light is bounced of the ceiling it is then in different wavelengths, simulating the light of the sun. The second issue is a little more complex in its physics. Chandelier lighting, us the result of two things built into the chandelier. The first is the diffuse lighting of the prisms. And the second is the number of these prisms that make the light scatter.
Let me take a minute to explain the prisms from a rudimentary scientific point of view to explain the benefits of chandelier lighting. First, little about the sun. The sun does not emanate white light. We just think it does. The resulting light we see is made up of many colors. If you want to know what colors they are, take a look through a prism and you will see it. It is literally a rainbow of colors.
So, coming back to chandelier lighting, the crystals that adorn the chandelier act as thousands of prisms, like the millions of droplets of water that cause rainbows. In this case the chandelier lighting is so soothing to the eyes because it breaks light down to its natural components. Have you ever strained your eyes looking at the rainbow? Or, have you strained your eyes in bright white lights.
Well, it turns out, having a chandelier in the landing and the dining, may not be such a bad thing after all. Having dinner under soft comforting chandelier lighting would be a good change.