Light Your Restaurant with Warm Bulbs – “Science News”

If you’re a regular reader of The Space Doctors, then you’ll know that light makes a difference to how you feel and how you react to a situation. Here we share some research that is further proof on why a certain warmth of light affects how you feel.

Ozkul, Bilgili, and Koc found that when “five experiments were conducted in five ambient lighted in different colours. . . . the perception of service quality and the level of satisfaction were higher in red and yellow-lighted ambient than those in blue and green-lighted ambient.”

These are the project details:  

“Yellow, blue, red, and green lights were obtained by covering the surface of white bulbs with colored gelatin.” 

These findings are likely relevant to home environments also.

Emrah Ozkul, Bilsen Bilgili, and Erdogan Koc. 2020.  “The Influence of the Color of Light on the Customers’ Perception of Service Quality and Satisfaction in the Restaurant.” Color Research and Application, vol. 45, no. 6, pp. 1217-1240, https://doi.org/10.1002/col.22560