Grow Lights – This is my hobby.

Like most people, I love natural light. It’s important for my home to have lots of windows and the blinds raised at all times of day.

I don’t like having indoor lights on when the sun is out.

I’m always going behind my housemates and flipping the lights off.

We have lots of plants in our house that benefit from all the windows and natural light, but as my husband propagates and collects more, he’s needing to hang and shelve them in darker areas; we’re running out of prime window real estate.

His solution is to install grow lights — special lighting that work just like the sun for plants.

The hanging grow light in our primary bedroom.

I know that my ideal design aesthetic can never be achieved whilst sharing space with an adult man, two teenage boys and a toddler. I know this.

But, the introduction of the grow lights was simply something I could not have foretold.

To me, they’re giving: science experiment. Nail tech lighting. Clinical.

I want soft sunlight that casts a gentle shadow as the day progresses.

A vintage lamp found at The Cozy Cottage in Lake Worth Beach transformed into a grow light set up.

The light these grow lights cast are literally disturbing to my eye. Am I being dramatic?

The lights are making a big difference for the plants they’re nourishing. One pothos in particular is growing orangey looking leaves now — I’m told this is called variegation.