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Originally Posted by milt
Light fixtures with reflectors will produce as many lumens at work height and floor level regardless of ceiling color.
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True, but diffuse, reflected light from a white ceiling certainly helps those lumens out.
You know, like those 'torchiere' lamps that shoot at the ceiling and light up the whole room, IF the ceiling is white.
Somehow I think that a good amount of light sources and a white ceiling would still be more aesthetically pleasing than a black or red ceiling and twice as many light fixtures. Also, Normy, if you have ceiling fixtures, especially long fluorescent tubes or something, the housings of those are almost always white, so a different color ceiling might look funny with white fixtures breaking it up everywhere.