Poll: Warm white or Cool white interior lighting?

[rage2]

The only place where I use 2700k are night lights for the kids.

[shakalaka]

White is right, regardless of the temperature.

[XylathaneGTR]

Generally in living areas, bedrooms, etc. I strongly prefer Warm.

I have one hallway that is a bit dim generally speaking, and bright white LEDs (3000k) do a LOT to brighten it up. I also don't mind them in the kitchen (e.g. a few pot lights). Anything higher than 3000k is not for me.

Generally speaking - warm all the way but bright has a few applications where I don't mind it (wouldn't go as far to say as prefer it).

[Prelude_dude]

oh wow i didn't think people felt so strongly about cool white.

I am cool white everywhere. House, garage, bathroom, kitchen; everywhere lol.

I think its literally just our bedroom wall sconces that we have a warm white.

Someone mentioned that it could be the design of our home, that's definitely a possibility why the white lights look really nice? We don't use a lot or have many warm colours. Our cabinets and hardwood are all deep dark brown. All the baseboards and doors in my house are a dark blue with grey undertone. Most of our furniture is dark brown, dark grey, or black. My walls are light grey with blue undertone.

[rage2]

Cool white works well when you have dark walls/cabinets/furniture/accents. It's rooms that's light in color that makes cool white look like, as buh_buh calls it, a rape museum. The light colors brings out the blue in cool white, which is where the problem lies.

One of our kids' rooms is filled with color. Purples, blues, reds, browns, just a huge assortment of colors. The normal temp we use there is around 4500-5000k. Switch to a 3000k mode (we're using Hue bulbs here) and the vibrancy is gone and it looks like a room from the 50's.

[kenny]

Yeah, it has a lot to do with interior colors (more so the color temp), warmer grey vs a cooler grey will look totally different when running a 5000K bulb.

High CRI bulbs will reduce the rape museum effect a bit and look closer to actual daylight.