The Phillips LivingColors LED lamp is pretty amazing. It’s a small floor lamp with four LEDs that cast light onto any wall or room creating instant mood, ambiance and color. It comes with a really easy to use cute little remote that controls the color and saturation giving you 16 million different choices of color.
What? I had no idea there were even 16 million colors! Did you? In order to see each color in one year, you’d have to change it at least 43835 x a day! WOW! HOW amazing would it be to change the color/lighting in your home to create the perfect atmosphere?
- Projects 16 million colors
- Creates colorful effect to match your mood
- Intuitive remote control
- Automatic color-changing mode
Chance #1 –
- Answer this question in the comment section: “What role does color and light play in creating a certain mood in your home?”
- Contests starts Monday, April 5th and ends Friday, April 10th at midnight EST.
- Most creative answer wins and will be announced Monday, April 13th.
Chance #2 – From now through April 18, 2010, Philips will be giving away a LivingColors lamp every week, along with $100 cash so you can add color to your home with your own choice of décor accents. Enter once a day to increase your chance of winning. Be sure to check out the site with fun interactive options to SEE the lamp!
Comment with the answer to the Chance #1 question above to enter!
If you have any questions…please email me at thediyshowoff@gmail.com.
GOOD LUCK!!!
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As of yet, the only thing I have been able to play with in regards to color and light, are natural light and paint colors…. I do believe in emotional paint colors – sunny yellow kitchens, tranquil aqua master bath, energizing green living room – but the thought of an LED lamp, kinda blows my mind!! Wow!
Oh I think color and lightening are essential to the mood in any room. Recently my husband put recessed lighting in our kitchen and I changed the wall color. It's amazing the difference just those two things made. I think each room cries for equal attention. You don't want the same lighting and color in each and every room. Each one is unique and needs to be treated as such. I think it's fun to plan out a room around color and lighting.
Did I ramble enough about light and color? Did I even answer the question? LOL
Have a blessed day.
Kim
I'm lucky to have lots of huge windows in my home. We use ambient light only at night or no the darkest of days. (I do however, need to work on just a touch of task lighting in the kitchen.)
I will come back over and answer later we are taking the kids somewhere and I need to run but I wanted to let you know I make my natural dyes with food items and spices.
I hope you had a great Easter. I think of you often.
Cheri
Color and light are critical in my home especially when entertaining. I'll spend as mush time creating the perfect lighting display as I will on cleaning for guests.
What a great giveaway! I find that cheerful, bright colors always help put me in a better mood. 🙂
Light is so important to me physically and emotionally. My dining room had terrible dark blue wallpaper. It was the first room I walk into in the morning and the mood it evoked was somber and depressing. I tore the wallpaper off last month and it is amazing the difference it made! Light has come to the dining room and I haven't even finished the walls yet- has an old world look right now which is a neat look I think!
All that to say- light is life and death!! After all that is the first thing God created- Light-
Color makes me happy! When we moved into out home it was all tan and I had trouble loving it or calling it my home. I surrounded myself with bright yellows, greend and reds and now love to be home.
With colour and light I change the atmosphere of my home by visually enlarging a small space or making a large space feel more close and personal. Thanks Roeshel – what a fantastic giveaway!
Lighting and color are so important and not to be taken lightly. We are busy finishing our basement project and trying to pick out colors and lighting for that. This is just what I am in the middle of deciding and trying to visualize as we look at painting samples.
Colors udes in my home can change my mood. They can make me happy, relaxed or excited.
Lighting is very important to me. I love to take TONS of pictures of my little boy and getting the lighting right is very important. I love natural light to make my photos the best they can be. I bet this lamp could be neat to make differents lighting in my pictures. Right? *hint *hint =)
j
We are planning on painting our first orange wall and we are working on our lighting as we speak. We use color to make our home more inviting and fun.
We don't use color much because we move with the military so often that it would be more hassle than it's worth to paint and repaint. We accent with color, but basically our color is a blank slate. It would be AWESOME beyond words to be able to color our world!
I have a very colorful house: yellow and orange walls, splashes of color everywhere. It's lovely
Color and light gives me life!!! I surround myself with color on every wall, corner, and knick-knack in my home…and I throw open the windows every morning to let in all the light possible. It's my energy!
love the blog!!
Now following!
Jennifer
http://www.lebedafamily.blogspot.com
Color and light are so important to the mood in a home! We live in a dreary little apartment, with very little in the way of natural light, and it's depressing. We are also not allowed to paint the walls, at all! So I make bright pillows and hang colorful art up on the walls to bring life into the dreary place. That lamp would be so amazing!
missa.moe@gmail.com
Good lighting effects everything. In a home, lighting can make or break the "feeling" or mood you feel when you walk in a room. Good lighting uplifts, invigorates, and can actually make your life look a little brighter and more beautiful.
Color & lighting are just starting to make an impact in my home. But I really want one to use with taking photos~I just can't even imagine the possibilities.
When I was a kid I used to love those movies where everything seemed to have a slight golden hue, like it's a dream or fairytale. Since then I have entered houses with golden yellow walls and lots of natural light, and those are the houses I feel immediately at home in, because they are so warm and inviting, like you are entering a childhood dream. We recently went house hunting for our first home, and, not surprisingly, both the houses we have narrowed it down to have golden yellow kitchens and/or family rooms, with big beautiful windows where the sunshine can add to the magic!
Oh, cool lamp! I am a huge fan of good natural lighting. The bright yellow morning sun lights up our east facing dining room that opens up into our kitchen. The colors we painted our walls and the bright bold fun colors in our kitchen tile get all lit up from it and are so warm and inviting. Our previous home had minimal natural light, so I appreciate it so much now.
I don't think I realized how important light and colors were until I moved into military housing – bright white walls and stock cabinets and hardware – blech!
I use bright art (small Ikea kitchen prints in red, yellow, green, blue, and pink framed and placed in my kitchen windowsill, plus two cool salsa coasters framed on the countertop, since my husband and I make our own salsa), a lime green rug, green embroidered tea towels as curtains, and I alternate plenty of fresh fruit and tablecloths to keep things bright in our otherwise bland house…but I'm counting down till I can paint the walls in our next place!
Thanks for tipping us all off to this neat new product!
Living in a home with virtually NO natural lighting sources, I have come to appreciate light and color sources in new ways. Every lamp choice, light bulb, or even shade can dramatically influence the look of one room. I especially value candle light for the calming light it sheds over a space and the soul. Color changes so dramatically from one room to the next, a feast for the eyes and senses. Light and color can lift your mood, calm the senses after a day of brutal assaults to the eyes, and blanket the mind with memories of misty hues of times gone by. Off to see the lamp!
Lighting is everything!!! If I want to stay energized and get a lot done I want to have lots of bright light. If I want to relax then I love to lower the "temperature" of the lighting and create a relaxed mood.
Light and color are EVERYTHING! I've seen people in two very different homes paint a room the same color. One looks great because the way the light plays off it, the other looks terrible because bad lighting. People don't realize how important (and neglected) the right lighting is.
Color and light completely set the tone of a room. I love bright, airy, cheery rooms- which of course means they have lots of light!
If colours were people the yellow would be the happy gang – orange, its close neighbour in the colour spectrum, would be the go-lucky crew. If you need something positive in your life, these are the colours that you should look to use for the positive energy and a more invigorated and energy-filled approach to life
Most of my home is pretty calming, natural colors but I do have one room that just "pops" because it's dark gray and yellow. I love it. Lighting is a huge factor, different types of lights or bulbs can give a new energy to a room, or just make it soothing. How neat it would be to have one lamp to be able to adjust to your moods!
Lighting and color are such a personal thing for each individual. It can invoke a feeling or bring back a memory just like a smell can. It can remind you of a sunset from the honeymoon or a cozy dinner for two. Lighting is something that makes a huge difference without being in your face. It would be incerdible to be able to recreate this in my home. Thanks Laurie
Color make your life colorfull
yellow like the sunshine
orange like a fresh fruit share with your famaily
Blue like the sun upon your home
Green like a garden in the summer
Purple like the first little flowers of the spring
pink like a smile
I want all that evry time in my house
Thank you phillips
Thanks for the awesome giveaway!! I don't even know where to begin. Lighting is part of the canvas of your room. Is it filled with natural light? Is it darker and cozy? Lighting can spotlight accents in our homes, and give "feeling" to the room….nothing is more relaxing to me than dove grey, white, or shades of turquoise.
It plays a huge role. I am drawn to certain colors for each room in my home. I love colors that bring character to a room. Bright yellows and turquoise pops of color. I love natural light! Thanks for the giveaway…
When we moved into the house the colors were DEEP. A strong Olive Green & a burnt red were the wall colors of the livingroom & kitchen We've repainted both to a much lighter color. And you can feel the difference. Much more airy & calming!
When my husband and I come home from work, we definitely want to unwind and color and light plays a huge part in our living room where we relax. We only have lamp light to create a calming mood. The colors in the room are soft and soothing. We have a soft tan on the walls, a cozy beige sofa, warm dark wood furniture, and sage green accents. It's an earthy and soothing room.
Color in my home plays a crucial role – especially since I have special needs children. The office – where we do schooling – is very bright, and the walls are a soft orange, their computers are black, and each child is assigned a different color, hot pink, bright blue, etc., in order to find their school supplies.
The hallways are a buff color so as not to distract them as the children go from one area to another, since each suffers from not only their learning and emotional disabilities, but also ADD and are easly visually distracted. Pictures on these walls are black and white, as well, to keep from drawing their eyes away from their goal area they are heading to, i.e. their bedroom, bathroom, etc.
The great room is a bold olive, which coordinates nicely with the rich burgundy, and buff colors. At night the colors darken nicely, so that the kids can sense it is getting to be time for bed.
Each child gets to choose the colors of their bedroom – although we are (always, it seems) in the middle of changing one room or another. For instance, my autistic son has always had a bright yellow room. It makes him feel safe, and he loves to put lighthouse themed materials/decor in it. Another son wants camoflage / mossy oak – which seems to tie in which his sneaky behaviors. We just finished the girls' bathroom in antique yellow and light blue with a bird theme… fits the personality of one of my daughter's to a tee… and if I could every afford a decorator, maybe I could finish the master bedroom…
Color is not only an expression of our family, it is a function for our family – it helps each of us move throughout our day.
As I've lived in apartments ALL my life, I'm in love with color and each room is a different mood/color. a bright sunny kitchen with aqua accents keeps it happy, a gray and orange office brings in the mod, and a blue and tan basement feels sporty. next up is the light green and white relaxing bedroom.
I love using warm colors and ambient lighting. I have a yellow/gold kitchen and it has such a happy mood to it, I love walking in there and looking at the wall color. Color is very important and I love how happy it makes me feel.
Kim
The colors and light balances people choose for their homes can reveal a lot about their personality and be an expression of who they are as people. My husband and I just bought our first house, and we are enjoying getting to choose colors and play with lights in ways that express us. We are painting our kitchen a medium gray with one bright yellow accent wall, and I can't wait to see how the room lights up with that bold flash of color.
My email: rachelnoelle.23@gmail.com
Currently, we can't paint our place, and the role lighting plays is that we turn the lights off to make it dimmer and on to make it brighter. I'm hoping this will change soon, though…
I think color has a major effect on moods, and feelings. My husband was recently diagnosed with IBD(?) and I read up a bit on color therapy…and its amazing, the theories that have been come up with. Like for instance hospitals always using the color blue, which is the color of serenity and harmony, by helping to soothe the mind. It is good for cooling, calming, reconstructing and protecting. good for fevers, calming the body and mind. So interesting…need I go on? lol BTW thanks for hosting! and wow! that is a great light!
Nikki
My favourite times of day, is in the morning when I come home from the gym, and the sun has just come up, and is streaming through all the windows of my living room/dining/kitchen. I love it when the house is quiet, the kids are still asleep, and I sit in my corner chair and enjoy the sun as it changes colours when rising.
In the late evening when the sun is going down, I like to find a quiet place and read, and bask in the last light of the day.
In the winter when everything gets dark so early, I like to bring light in my home, by ambience lighting. I've added twinkle lights under my daughters bed. I love at Christmas time when you have an excuse to have twinkle lights run down the banister, across the cupboard tops, and on the tree.
I'm recently bursting out of my shell and throwing away neutral walls to something brighter. I'm painting my bedroom a vintage blue, and can't wait for this weekend to start.
charitypenner@gmail.com
For me, lighting like sunlight can have the best effect on the color and mood of a room. The way the sun bounces around a crisp white room makes everything feel clean and streamlined and creates a feeling of balance. The way it pops off an apple green room can be energizing and give you that little extra oomph! to get going.
Even the lack of sunlight can make different colors and rooms feel different. That same white room on a gray day can make you feel cozy and snuggly. The apple green room is suddenly muted and the perfect place to catch up on reading or correspondance.
Of course, give me a sunny day! 😉
I use color to create a natural feeling at home…lots of wood tones and green accents. Nothing is as important as sunlight, though. I still have a soft spot for my first ugly apartment, because it was wonderfully sunny (even if the stove never worked) and had a lovely tree view.
I love natural light, and use daylight bulbs in the rooms we spend the most time in in the evenings.
And I love color so paint is my friend. I have kept the kitchen neutral for my husband, but painted the living room a soft aqua blue that makes me very happy. The guest and upstairs bathrooms are lavender and gray. And the guest room is a sunny yellow.
I have read many articles where mood is affected by colors – with the LED with 16 million different choices of color it sounds like the possibilities for mood adjustments with this would feel infinite!
Some days you feel like being red, sometimes you don't. Sometimes when everything is going good you feel yellow. Other times are black light moments. It sounds like it is a light for any occasion.
Color is important but lighting is what provides the comfort to a room. I often remember how comfy and welcoming my parent's house was as a child due to the small lights my mother would have on. The piano light lit the room just right. I can't explain it. The light allowed you to easily enjoy the white noise of the room. The glow from the window as I approached home from outside, warm my heart and enlightened my soul. I hope to create and provide memories like this for my son from how I decorate, including color but most importantly warming nuturing, memory-making light.
I find light necessary for feeling good (alive awake, "right with the world"). Color adds flavors to that life – energy, passion, peace, etc…
Dim rooms and clashing colors make me feel sad or drained and anxious or disorganized.