What Should Bedroom Lighting Color Actually Do?
Casey walked into my room at eleven at night, stopped in the doorway, and went “why does your room look like a Cinnabon.” Which, fair. I had a salt lamp…
Where Bathroom Lighting Color Goes Wrong
I was standing at the bathroom sink at 7:12 on a Tuesday, one eye done, one eye looking distinctly unwell, and I remember thinking, quite calmly, that I looked like…
Warm Bedroom Lighting That Still Lets You See
I have changed the bulb in my nightstand lamp four times in the past two years, and not one of those changes happened because the old bulb burned out. Every…
Bedroom Bulb Colors, Lamp by Lamp
The lamp was gorgeous. I want that on record before I tell you what I did to it. A brass table lamp, 1930s if the seller was telling the truth,…
Which Color Bulb Belongs in a Bathroom?
Okay so I need to talk about the time I bought sixteen amber light bulbs off a lighting trend I saw exactly one TikTok about, and put every single one…
Bedroom Light Color: What Helps You Wind Down
I check the color temperature stamped on a lightbulb box more than I check anything else in a hardware aisle, and I’ve done that job long enough that I should…
Bathroom Light Color: What Flatters and What Doesnt
I currently own fourteen bathroom bulbs. Not fourteen fixtures, fourteen individual bulbs, sitting in a kitchen drawer in various states of packaging, because at some point in the last two…
Bathroom LED Color: Warm, Cool or Somewhere in Between
I used to tell people that LED lights and bathrooms don’t belong in the same sentence, not if you want the room to feel like anything other than a dentist’s…
Lampshade Colors That Go With Brass
Brass has a reputation for being fussy. Ask around and people will tell you it only works with white shades, maybe black if you’re feeling brave, and that anything else…
Chocolate Brown Sofa: Pillows and Coffee Tables That Suit It
My sister walked into my living room in January, still wearing her coat because the house was doing its usual impression of a meat locker, took one look at the…