Healthy Lighting Guide

Modern home lighting is optimized for cost and convenience, not for human biology. Bright blue-rich light at night suppresses melatonin and disrupts sleep. Flicker from cheap LEDs causes headaches and eye strain. Cool color temperatures throughout the day flatten the circadian signals your body relies on to regulate energy, mood, and recovery.

What the Guide Covers

Our Healthy Lighting Guide introduces the principles of circadian-aware design: what to use during the day, what to switch to in the evening, where flicker and EMF emissions hide, and which fixtures we install in the homes we build.

An Easy Upgrade

Better lighting changes how a home feels and how you sleep. It's also one of the easiest upgrades to retrofit.

Lighting is one of the five systems in our 12 CORE Principles for Healthy Building Design, designed into every home we build.