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Probably a matter of "light temperature". Low temperatures of 2500-2700 K (aka "warm white") are reddish, while high temperatures around 3000 K (aka "daylight" [ETA: in advertising parlance]) are bluish. Go to a well-stocked hardware store and they may have a display demonstrating the differences.


3000K is still considered very warm white. Daylight is 5700k.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature




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