Philips Hue Adore Mirror Light
Create perfect moments in your living room for you, your family and friends.
Create the kitchen atmosphere and lighting that you want and need, for every occasion from cooking to dining
Using Hue connected lighting in your home is a very easy and effective way of improving your everyday experience and lifestyle. Without having to spend lots of money in installing dimmers and other electrical aspects, using smart lighting becomes your simple access to dimming and controlling your light after your own needs.
In the living room, we will experience many important moments of our life, from warming moments with the family to celebrations and more. The light of this space has an important role and being able to control that light allows for a more comfortable experience for everyone involved.
Below you will find a few cases on how Philips Hue connected lighting can improve your daily activities and interactions in your living room.
When you and your family gather upp around the dining table, a warm and inviting atmosphere will welcome everyone to a calm and relaxing moment. By setting your Hue lights to a warm, dark yellow tint, you can quickly achieve a cozy ambiance that allows everyone to get together and enjoy the moment.
If there is a party being planned, make sure to set out enough light points so that a fitting festive atmosphere can be created. Wall splashers from Philips Hue are great options for this, both portable and with access to full color. When the event starts, create a fitting theme that uses plenty of color but also a nice solid warm white, so that vision never becomes impaired.
Philips Hue is the connected lighting system that can make your living room truly a part of your entertainment. Through the software Hue Sync, your colored lights can mimic the colors shown on your TV screen and then replicate them, expanding your movie or game into the entire living room. A new and fantastic way to get immersed and experience media in a completely new way.
Pendants function very often as a centre light piece in larger rooms and can provide a large amount of light just like the ceiling lights. The main difference is that the pendant is much more visible, becoming a more emphasized part of your decoration. The high of the ceiling is also a factor that needs to be considered. Placing your pendant above a sofa table or similar spot where no one is walking is a good option to make sure the luminaire does not become an obstruction for anyone using the room.
Ceiling lights are a great option as a central lighting point to your living room that gives off a large amount of light. The close positioning to the ceiling allows for a very even spread of light. In smaller rooms this can be enough to also covers shelves and other storage that is placed higher up on the walls. However, when used in a large space, light might not be reaching the corners. To cover for this, make sure to support with corner light like wall splashers, lightstrips, or floor lamps.
Wall splashers are great options for lighting up large areas of your room. Applying this to your entertainment area, you can get a lot of space behind a screen lit up. This enhances your entertainment experience by spreading the light as much as possible in the room that you are synchronizing media in. These wall splashers all come in the Hue Color range and are easy plug-and-play luminaires that require no installation. These lights are also great options of corner or window lighting because of the easy positioning and plug-and-play function.
Using Hue connected lighting in your home is a very easy and effective way of improving your everyday experience and lifestyle. Without having to spend lots of money in installing dimmers and other electrical aspects, using smart lighting becomes your simple access to dimming and controlling your light after your own needs.
In the kitchen, we will experience many important moments of our life, from family dinners to social gatherings. The light of this space has an important role and being able to control that light allows for a more comfortable experience for everyone involved.
Below you will find a few cases on how Philips Hue connected lighting can improve your daily activities and interactions in your kitchen.
Nothing hides better on dark surfaces or in shadowy corners than dust and dirt. By using a colder white light and a high light output (also called lumen) you can make it easier for your eyes to catch everything hiding out in your kitchen after a long session of cooking. The same cold light makes the cooking itself more enjoyable by bringing forth all the ingredients true colors. The pepper will look more red, the bread more golden. This thanks to the high CRI (Color Rendering Index) levels of Hue lights at 90/100.
When you and your family gather around the dining table, a warm and inviting atmosphere will welcome everyone. By setting your Hue lights to a warm, dark yellow tint, you can quickly achieve a cozy ambiance that allows everyone to get together and enjoy the moment.
If there is a party being planned, make sure to set out enough light points so that a fitting festive atmosphere can be created. Wall splashers from Philips Hue are great options for this, both portable and with access to full color. When the event starts, create a fitting theme that uses plenty of color but also a nice solid warm white, so that vision never becomes impaired.
Pendants function very often as a centre light piece in larger rooms and can provide a large amount of light just like the ceiling lights. The main difference is that the pendant is much more visible, becoming a more emphasized part of your decoration. The high of the ceiling is also a factor that needs to be considered. Placing your pendant above a dinner table or similar spot where no one is walking is a good option to make sure the luminaire does not become an obstruction for anyone using the room.
Ceiling lights are a great option as a central lighting point to your living room that gives off a large amount of light. The close positioning to the ceiling allows for a very even spread of light. In smaller kitchens this can be enough to also covers shelves and other storage that is placed higher up on the walls. However, when used in a large space, light might not be reaching the corners. To cover for this, make sure to support with corner light like wall splashers, spotlights, or floor lamps.
Wall splashers are great options for lighting up large areas of your room. Applying this to your entertainment area, you can get a lot of space behind a screen lit up. This enhances your entertainment experience by spreading the light as much as possible in the room that you are synchronizing media in. These wall splashers all come in the Hue Color range and are easy plug-and-play luminaires that require no installation. These lights are also great options of corner or window lighting because of the easy positioning and plug-and-play function.
Both Google Nest and Netatmo are smart home device providers that have partnered up with Philips Hue in their works of improving people home security. The Nest Fire Alarm and Netatmo Smoke Alarm can both be connected to your smart Hue lights. When the accident strikes and a fire has been sensed, your lights will warn you of danger together with the sound of the alarm. This is great for anyone with hearing impairments, or if you simply live in a large house where you don't have multiple smoke alarms connected. If you are busy somewhere else indoors, or maybe in your garden, your smart lights can warn you of danger as well.
The bathroom, where no matter time of year, light is always needed
Experience an easy to install system that gives you full control over your home lighting.
Using Hue connected lighting in your bathroom is a very easy and effective way of improving your everyday experience and lifestyle. Without having to spend lots of money in installing dimmers and other electrical aspects, using smart lighting becomes your simple access to dimming and controlling your light after your own needs.
The core of this type of lighting is the ability to change between light temperatures, also called Kelvin (K), which changes the light from a colder white to a much warmer yellow. This allows any user to tailor the light to the time of day and activity, making the light easier on the eyes during evening and night, and brighter and clearer during the day. Below you can read more about some of the many user cases that the Philips Hue smart lighting system can offer your bathroom lighting, and with that improve your daily well-being.
A way to reduce your sleepy and sluggish feeling (called sleep inertia) after waking up in the morning is to expose your eyes to blue light waves. These can be found in the whiter, colder lights that you can access through the Philips Hue Ambiance range. Using either the Energize or Focus light setting in the Hue app kickstarts your brain, making the morning chores a lot easier to get through. The cold white light also makes colors stand out more, which helps in picking out the right clothes or getting your makeup done.
During the daytime hours, a warmer white light more similar to sunlight is preferred to aid our eyes. With this light in the bathroom, you can see very clearly, but without risking any irritation to your eyes. All light wakes us up, but using a light temperature that is between the red and the blue light, you stabilize your energy and awaken state, resulting in a more stable level of energy throughout the day.
To minimize the risk of waking up towards the evening and night when getting ready for bed, using a more warm, almost yellow or orange light is recommended. This light contains red light waves, which in the spectrum of light waves are the least affecting to your melatonin secretion. This results in it being easier for you to become sleepy, as nothing is jolting you awake all of a sudden or affecting your relaxed state of mind.
Many of us wake up late in the night, to visit the bathroom or the kitchen for our different needs. When this happens, the last thing we want is a stronger or colder light that wakes us up. Being able to set your Hue Dim Switch or Hue Motion Sensor to turn the light to a very dim and warm light when your nightly adventures are carried out allows us to still see just enough to navigate around the home, without risking our precious sleepy state.
The IP-rating of any luminaire or electrical device determines the products resistance to primarily two factors: physical objects and liquids. IP is short for "International Protection" and is a guidance and codex that determines how well an electrical device can withstand dirt, damage, water and steam.
Philips Hue Bathroom luminaires can only be found in the rating of IP44, which is a common rating for any device designed for bathroom use. Make sure that a certified electrician performs any electrical installation in a space near steam or water to eliminate any risk of damage. Be sure to never install a Philips Hue luminaire in a location where the product might be exposed to more water than what the IP rating allows, or where it risks to be submerged under water.
Ceiling plafonds are a great option as a central lighting point to your bathroom that gives off a large amount of light. The close positioning to the ceiling allows for a very even spread of light that also covers shelves and other storage that is placed higher up on the walls. However, having just a ceiling plafond might not be optimal when using a mirror and should therefor preferably be combined with a smaller mirror light like a tube or spotlight.
Spotlights are great for highlighting certain locations in a bathroom like a mirror or a cabinet, where you need to be able to see everything clearly. The movable heads allows for this, and can always be repositioned if needed. The light from a spotlight is very focused, soa few of them is required to light up an entire room. If installed on a wall over a mirror, the light will not spread very effectively, and might be needing the support of something like a ceiling plafond.
Wall lights acts as a middle point between spotlights and ceiling lights, because of the higher amount of light they release, but also because of their position above or around important areas like the sink. This allows them to give great focus light but also something that is a bit more covering. Like always, combining wall lights with maybe a couple of built in spotlights is a fantastic way of creating a fully covering light in your bathroom and truly being comfortable there during the whole day, without any dark corners.
Getting started with your new Philips Hue smart lighting system is very easy and just require a few simple steps. There is no difference in starting with a Bridge that comes with a starter kit, or one that you bought separately. Follow these steps to connect your new amazing lights:
Once you have your Hue Bridge setup, you are ready to start adding and connecting your different light sources.
Connecting to your Philips Hue lights using Bluetooth is also very easy and straightforward. Follow these steps to get started with your smart lighting:
