| In this article, I will discuss some of the tricks and | | | | source of glare. Therefore, great caution needs to be |
| pitfalls involved in designing windows. Windows are | | | | used when lighting near windows. First, ensure that |
| one of the trickiest things to light in the home. On | | | | you have no direct light on the windows. There |
| the one hand, during the day they provide the single | | | | should be no direct line from a bulb to a window, |
| greatest source of light to your room. On the other | | | | unless the reflection would only be upward toward |
| hand, during the night, they don't produce any light at | | | | your ceiling. Fortunately, this nicely combines with |
| all. Moreover, because they are reflective and usually | | | | your daytime lighting strategy that lights the areas |
| large, they can cause a lot of glare within your room. | | | | least covered by the solar light. |
| On top of all of this, they serve as virtually mirrors at | | | | Another way to avoid glare, however, is to use |
| night if there are no offsetting external light sources. | | | | external lighting. Windows only provide glare if you |
| During the day, there is no need to light your | | | | are on the brighter side of the window, not on the |
| windows. Indeed, during the day, they are lights | | | | darker side of the window. As a result, one way to |
| themselves. However, this doesn't mean that you | | | | reduce or even eliminate glare is to have diffuse |
| should ignore them. Instead, you should be conscious | | | | lighting outside the window that reduces the |
| of how they light your room with ambient light. Even | | | | reflectiveness of the light. There are some words of |
| during the day, solar lighting doesn't completely light | | | | caution, though. First, be sure to not create glare |
| your room. So, during the day, the goal is to ensure | | | | from external lights that is even worse than the |
| that you can light around your windows, in the sense | | | | reflections you are trying to avoid. Second, be |
| that your other lighting serves as a corrective for the | | | | cautious of energy bills, as external lighting can be |
| spaces not covered by the light. | | | | expensive. The lights you use should also some sort |
| At night, however, windows become a completely | | | | of external function like security. Fortunately, done |
| different story. Not only do they cease to be | | | | right, external lighting can actually give you the ability |
| sources of light, they actually become your worst | | | | to see out of your window at night. |