Trend Tuesday – Light Industrial
Lighting that’s not too industrial Like the industrial look but find a lot of the light fittings a bit too harsh and stripped back for what you need? You may…
My Top 5 Tops for Picking the Right Pendant for Over Your Dining Table
If you are using a single pendant match it to the shape of the table. If you use a round or square pendant over a very long or extendable oval…
My Ten Top Tips for the Best Kitchen Lighting
Don’t stick to rows or grid patterns of ceiling downlights unless they match up with what you need to have illuminated. If your kitchen is part of an open plan…
Exterior Lighting – Why Bother?
I usually find that my clients’ main priority with their exterior lighting is creating “kerb appeal” at night. Or, if the property can’t be seen from the road, making it…
Beautiful Bedroom Lighting – 10 Top Tips
1. A ceiling pendant, such as a chandelier, not only looks great in a bedroom but its multi-directional illumination can fill every corner of a room. Bedroom lighting needs to…
Coloured light or white light? That is the question…
I often get asked by clients about whether they should have coloured LED or LED colour changing lights in their homes or not. I must admit that I have a…
Can we put a Chandelier in the Bathroom?
Recently a client’s Interior Designer asked me if a decorative pendant hanging over their current dining table could be installed in the master bathroom of their new home which is…
My Top 10 Tips for the Best Bathroom Lighting
Bathrooms should be able to be brightly illuminated when they need to be – e.g. for bathing children or it might just be so that they can be cleaned properly….
Hotel Dim Wits?
Poor hotel lighting A couple of months ago my partner and I had a few nights in a contemporary hotel that had acres of dark grey textured walls, dark wood…
My 10 Top Tips for Getting the Best From Decorative Lighting
1. Your decorative lighting should reflect your personality and compliment your overall intentions for your interior design scheme, whether it’s sophisticated, fun, funky, traditional, modern, cutting edge contemporary, or whatever…
