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A home theatre is a fantastic addition to your home, creating a fun space to watch all the latest releases while adding considerable value to your home. And when you use sustainable lighting , you won’t have a big energy bill to pay either. Here are some tips for lighting your home theatre the right way, from accredited installers of LED lightbulbs under the Victorian Energy Upgrades program . Dimmable LED Lightbulbs   Dimmable lighting is a must-have home theatre fixture, allowing you to fine-tune your lighting to create the perfect ambiance and a true theatre experience. This is especially important if your home theatre doubles as an office, playroom, or lounge, enabling you to light it differently as your needs change.  Bias Lighting   This is the lighting installed behind a screen to help reduce eyestrain and make it easier for your eyes to adjust comfortably when switching between dark and light scenes in a movie or TV show.  LED lightbulbs, specifically strip ...

 When buying LED lightbulbs , you’ll see descriptive terms on the packaging that classify the light as warm or cool. But what does this mean? And what option is better? Here’s some insight from LED light installation specialists accredited under the Victorian Energy Upgrade Program .  Colour Temperature  It’s all about the concept of colour temperature. Essentially, warm lighting emits a light that is closer to natural lighting, ranging from a yellow to a reddish light. Cool lighting emits a more artificial lighting that is bluer in colour. To determine where the LED lightbulbs you are looking at fall on the scale, it’s important to ignore the description and focus on the Kelvin rating, which will be a number in the thousands followed by a (K) symbol. This scale measures lighting in numerical values, and while the word descriptions and labels on the LED lightbulbs will vary from manufacturer to manufacturer (they’re more like paint colour descriptions than exact, defined...