Having spent a couple of days writing lengthy articles on Feng Shui, or what I would term, natural or aesthetic design, I was delighted to stumble across a couple of interesting looking blogs. The first, the green blog on greenandsave.com was the one to alert me to this very interesting blog that’s well worth a browse: simplesteps.org, and particularly, I loved their article on No Bulb – Best Bulb!

Extend Natural Light with Mirrors

This No Bulb – Best Bulb article particularly caught my attention through their suggestion of using mirrors that of course naturally allow light to bounce around all over the place. With feng shui, mirrors have always been regarded highly and efficacious for all the various aspects of one’s home and well-being. In these articles that I wrote, I was drawing attention to the placement of mirrors within the family section of the home or room that you are developing or designing. It’s obvious that the placement of mirrors can be planned to allow natural light from windows to be reflected in two less well lit corners. And of course this clearly applies to whatever electrical lighting you have installed.

Task Lighting – Another Energy Saver

I don’t want to crib their article but another good section was there a discussion on the placement of different lights for different purposes. Again if you had one main light to flood the room for all purposes you may be wasting a lot of energy. The alternative is to establishing a variety of different small sources of light for specific purposes. Halogen bulbs would be useful for directing lights to specific areas, for working or hobbies. LEDs would also be an excellent choice for wherever is suitable. Of course we’re talking about a slightly higher outlay, but this should soon be recouped by the energy saving.

Anyway, do please have a quick look at their article.