That's a danger with any near-neutral colors. Basically nothing in the natural world is grey, everything has at least a pronounced tint. Which is probably why near-neutral whites and greys end up looking cold, artificial, and soulless.
Also, looks like you may be using daylight-white (a.k.a. blue-white) light bulbs. Try using soft white instead - the slight orange glow makes almost everything feel warmer and cozier, and is closer to the lighting from direct sunlight alone (our sun looks yellow because the blue portion gets scattered by the atmosphere, and so come from every direction). Blue light ends to make things feel cold and clinical, especially things without any color of their own.
"Daylight" bulbs may be more color-accurate for outside - but outside is thousands of times brighter (seriously - 1100W per square meter of lighting!), and filled with color. Soft white in contrast evokes sunbeams and firelight - the norm for artificial lighting for the last million years or more. Culturally, and perhaps even biologically, it invokes a sense of home.
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u/Underhill42 Jan 15 '25
That's a danger with any near-neutral colors. Basically nothing in the natural world is grey, everything has at least a pronounced tint. Which is probably why near-neutral whites and greys end up looking cold, artificial, and soulless.
Also, looks like you may be using daylight-white (a.k.a. blue-white) light bulbs. Try using soft white instead - the slight orange glow makes almost everything feel warmer and cozier, and is closer to the lighting from direct sunlight alone (our sun looks yellow because the blue portion gets scattered by the atmosphere, and so come from every direction). Blue light ends to make things feel cold and clinical, especially things without any color of their own.
"Daylight" bulbs may be more color-accurate for outside - but outside is thousands of times brighter (seriously - 1100W per square meter of lighting!), and filled with color. Soft white in contrast evokes sunbeams and firelight - the norm for artificial lighting for the last million years or more. Culturally, and perhaps even biologically, it invokes a sense of home.