Home / The Edit Lighting Solutions Lighting the winter Lighting Solutions Lighting the winter Thanks to the slight inclination of the earth’s rotation we get to experience the cycles of the changing seasons. The northern hemisphere is plunged into colder and shorter days during the winter. Light becomes less intense and less available. So we have to compensate. Winter mood is all about this time when we draw closer together, when home takes on a special significance.Lighting is one of the keys ways that our interiors respond to these changing meteorological conditions, to aid our psychological as much as physiological wellbeing. Like our changing diet and wardrobe winter mood examines how our spaces adapt to the coldest season of the year. Winter sun is brittle and piercing with low latitude that sharpens its rays. The cut glass chandeliers of old captured this sensation and came into their own during winter. Today modern pieces with striated crystal do precisely the same thing, picking up reflections during the day and refracting the light at night. Arranged in geometric patterns that evoke the frozen structure of snowflakes. By adding low level lighting inside our home our eyes are much more attuned to the outdoors in winter. This cosy indirect lighting if combined with a useful piece of furniture takes on an additional function.