Render of the OR Senza80 trimless downlight set into a plaster ceiling, its reflector lit

Light Lab

Four things decide how a light looks in your room. Try each one here, then light a whole room.

IllustrationA living room corner at night, lit by two recessed downlights washing the wall above a sideboard

Colour temperature

Measured in kelvin. Low numbers give warm, golden light; high numbers give cool, blue-white light.

3000KWarm white
2700K6500K

Soft and golden. The usual choice for living rooms, bedrooms and restaurants.

Three downlights side by side giving warm white 3000K, natural white 4000K and cool white 6000K light
The same downlight in warm, natural and cool white.

Colour rendering

CRI, the colour rendering index, measures how accurately a light shows colours compared with natural sunlight. 100 is perfect, so the higher the number, the truer food, fabric, skin and wood look.

CRI 80Good
  • Poorbelow 60
  • Good60 to 85
  • Great85 and up
Sunlight, CRI 100This light, CRI 80
The same still life twice: bananas, an orange, an apple, curry leaves, a brass bowl and crimson, teal, mustard and indigo cotton on a walnut table. On the left in sunlight; on the right under the chosen CRI, where colours turn dull and shift.

Beam angle

Narrow beams for accent and art. 36° to 38° for general spots. 110° for even, wide light.

1.75 m

Width of the pool of light on the floor

2 × 2.7 m × tan 18° = 1.75 m

General spots: the everyday choice for living rooms and kitchens.

Beam angle
Ceiling height
Drawn to scale. The figure is 1.7 m tall.
Section through a room: a downlight in the ceiling throws a cone of light to the floor, beside a standing person for scale.

Anti-glare

An anti-glare design redirects or diffuses excess light, so you see what is lit, not the bright source. Less eye strain, and better light for reading and working.

A modern dining room lit by a flat ceiling panel that glares straight into the eyesThe same dining room lit by three deep-set anti-glare spots: warm, calm light and no glareShallow panelDeep-set anti-glare
Drag to compare. Same room, only the light changes.

How it works

Where the bright source sits compared with your eye. Move the slider to change where you sit.

Shallow source

You look straight at the bright source.

Deep-set reflector

The source is hidden. You see the lit room, not the glare.

Light a room

Most rooms need more than one kind of light. Switch on each layer and see what it adds.

See them lit in the showroom

Bring your room sizes to 1st Floor, Balaji Arcade, S.N Junction, Tripunithura, and see the lights switched on. Or send us your list on WhatsApp.

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Two OR PRO+ 142 deep-set recessed spots by OR Lights, one with a white trim and one black

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