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27 Feb

How to illuminate a room without windows

Catharine BwanaResidential Commercial Servicesartificial light, color temperature, direct light, indirect light, light colors, living room, natural light, open space, white light

The rooms without windows may need a large dose of ideas so that their lighting makes us forget that it has no natural light from the outside. Although it seems that it is a difficult task, the truth is that there are ideas and solutions that are very effective to illuminate closed spaces without windows. In this post we will discover some of the most interesting ideas to illuminate a room without windows, such as the following: Table of Contents hide Different types of lamps Color temperature Indirect light or direct light Bet on light colors Down doors and partitions Use…

13 Feb

Kitchens open to the living room: With glass or with island?

Catharine BwanaResidential Commercial Servicesbearing wall, kitchen island, living room, load bearing, open kitchen, open space, open spaces, space offers, visual barriers

In the society in which we live it is increasingly common to find designs that break with the personal or individualized intimacy of spaces to give way to larger environments and common use. Within this philosophy the kitchen plays a very important role. Well, together with the living room, they are the two most used spaces in the house, so it never hurts to unite both environments to create a single space without visual barriers. In this article we wanted to make a compilation of the main characteristics that a kitchen open to the living room should have. This is one of the…