Dark Colors Absorb Light: You Need Twice the Lighting

Two lighting configurations for the same dark space are juxtaposed. The left side uses the number of light fixtures suitable for a light-colored space: two lamps. As a result, because the walls reflect almost no light, the light disappears, the room is so dim that faces are unclear, and the tabletop is not bright enough. The right side is correct: the number of light fixtures is increased to five or six, but each lamp has low brightness, and all are accent lights—shining on a painting, on a tabletop, on an object, on a seating area; the walls are deliberately not lit brightly, maintaining their depth. Thus, the space remains dark, but all areas that need to be seen clearly are sufficiently lit.
Avoid: making the two look similar, using a few high-brightness lamps in the correct version, lighting the walls brightly and losing the dark feel, changing the materials and configuration of the space.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

同一個深色空間的兩種照明配置對照。左側用淺色空間的燈具數量:兩盞燈,結果因為牆面幾乎不反射,光打出去就消失了,房間昏暗到看不清人臉,桌面也不夠亮。右側是正確的:燈具的數量增加到五到六盞,但每一盞的亮度都不高,而且全部是重點式的——打在畫上、打在桌面、打在一件器物上、打在人的座位區;牆面刻意不打亮,維持深邃。因此空間仍然是暗的,但所有需要看清楚的地方都夠亮。避免:讓兩者相似、在正確版本用少數幾盞高亮度的燈、把牆面打亮失去深色感、改變空間的材質與配置。