Dark wood reflectivity: illumination needs to be doubled

A room lit for dark surfaces. Dark wood has about one-tenth the reflectivity of light-colored walls; most of the light hitting it is absorbed and won't bounce back into the room like a white wall. Therefore, the number and wattage of lights must be greater than in a typical space, but the overall feeling should still be dark. The brightness in the room is not achieved by ambient light, but by several sufficiently intense accent lights. Avoid: directly applying the lighting scheme of a typical space, creating darkness by only reducing light brightness, having only one light source in the entire room, expecting dark walls to reflect ambient light.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個為深色表面配光的房間。深色木的反射率只有淺色牆的十分之一左右,光打上去大部分被吃掉,不會像白牆那樣把光彈回房間;因此燈的數量與功率都要比一般空間多,但整體感覺仍然是暗的。房間裡的亮不是靠環境光,而是靠幾個強度足夠的重點光。避免:用一般空間的燈光配置直接套用、只降低燈的亮度來製造暗、讓整個房間只有一個光源、期待深色牆會反射環境光。