This content provides practical guidance on designing effective and atmospheric lighting schemes for various home spaces, emphasizing the interplay between function, mood, and decorative elements.
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when we got married I took a box of
light bulbs to the hotel and made them
change all the light
bulbs hi I'm Brandon Shubert I'm an
interior designer and today I'm going to
show you how to design and execute a
lighting scheme for your [Music]
home I love designing lighting for
interiors first of all the room has to
work so you need function but more
importantly lighting gives the room its
energy and its atmosphere once the sun
has gone down we're here today at a
project in South London that I designed
to look at the lighting schemes how
we've designed them and how they work in
space let's look at lighting a sitting
room I always started lighting design
with a floor plan if you don't have a
professional floor plan like we do and
you can always sketch something out on
graph paper or with a scale rule if you
want someone told me once that the most
important rule of lighting design is to
light objects and surfaces not space
there's something about seeing a room
from above that allows you to sort of
visualize the object you're trying to
light rather than the space as you're
standing in it the other thing to think
about is lighting different levels of a
room so we have ceiling lights which are
above your head we might have wall
lights at eye level and we might have
table lamps at below eye level but it's
important to get lighting at all of
those levels so that a room feels
natural and sort of immersive when
you're standing in it at night these two
lights by the bookcase they're washing
the front of the bookcases down so that
you get a glow on the books themselves
ground the two decorative wall lights
either side are giving you a really
subtle glow and in fact I put a very low
wattage bulp in those and I also have
put a Goldline shade on them so that
they just give you a warm hint of light
but they're not doing anything really
they're just giving you ambient light
I've got a track running on the
horizontal side of this wall
all the way down one side so that those
lights can point at the wall
opposite so they're providing that
surface with a glow at
night I love table lamps you know I
could buy table lamps all day I spend my
days on eBay buying up vasas and turning
them into lamps it's one of the joys of
my my design career think about them as
a great accessory for making your
lighting scheme feel varied and feel
decorative because they have great
decorative value in addition to being a
source of light the floor lamp by the
chair is giving you the ability to sit
there and read a book in the evening and
it's also giving you height and what
would otherwise be a fairly empty Corner
I've also put a large floor lamp by this
easy chair in the corner because again
you want that height to sort of fill the [Music]
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space now we're going to look at
lighting a kitchen and dining
space it's very often the case that your
kitchen and a dining space are connected
so we think about lighting those two
elements together when you're lighting a
kitchen the first thing to think about
is Task lighting kitchens are all about
function in a kitchen I use down lights
to light a surface that we're going to
be using to work so if you think about a
kitchen island for example it is
important that that Island be lit
uniformly and it be lit from more than
one direction so you don't end up with
uncomfortable Shadows that get in your
way when you're trying to work because
this is quite a narrow room we can't
really have table lamps and other
decorative fittings on that side so
again I've settled For Recess down
lights shining on those walls just to
give them a glow and here as
well when you're buying a downlight you
often times have a choice of getting a
fix downlight or getting one that will
tilt and it's much better to wash a wall
with light than it is just to pour light
down onto the floor but what do you do
when you want to set the mood for a
dinner party or an evening where you're
having friends over and people are going
to be in the connected room looking at
the kitchen I've used under counter
lighting under the cupboards above if
possible I use LED strips and I like to
position them at the front edge of the
cupboards above so that they don't cast
a funny Shadow when they shine down on
the splashback behind the work toop and
running along the
top lighting up onto the
ceiling they can both be turned down on
a dimmer switch to just provide a soft
glow that just accentuates the room
without lighting it up brightly so in
the dining room again we're going to
start with the furniture plan as the
driver of where things go clearly the
dining table's in the center of the room
and we want a pendant over the dining
table what I like about this light is
not only does it have a lot of character
as an antique light fitting but these
Vaseline Glass Shades hide the bulbs a
bit and soften the light giving it a
little bit more moodiness a little bit
more diffused character dimmers are
especially important in a dining room
you always want to be able to turn that
Central light over the dining table down
to a very low level when you're having a
meal we then have space for furniture
all the way around the outside so we
have two pieces of furniture either side
of the chimney breast and a sideboard
running along this wall so I've taken
the opportunity to put table lamps on
furniture the other thing I think about
all the time with table lamps is the
size and shape that they are I try not
to put a very heavy table lamp on a very
small table because I think it's out of
proportion if you can get the balance
into the right place where the table
lamp sits comfortably on the thing that
it's on it will feel more
natural that's all the light fittings we
have in this room table lamps and the
central light over the dining room that
said that there's plenty of opportunity
to bring in candles and other kinds of
lights when the mood
requires let's talk about how to light a
bedroom I think anytime you enter a room
room you want a light switch that
operates at least one light in a room
and bedrooms are no
different so in this bedroom I've
started with a ceiling
light which I positioned in the center
of the room by the way an interesting
way to find the center of a room if
you're in doubt is to draw a line from
one corner to the other Corner in a
diagonal and then draw another diagonal
line from that corner to the other
Corner which ignores a chimney breast
and one of the things people often
mistake is they take the center line
from the chimney breast to the other
wall rather than doing it with an X so I
started with a central ceiling light in this
this
room I've also added a 5 amp circuit to
control the lamps in this room this is a
way that you can control table lamps by
a switch I'm making a small symbol which
is for a 5 amp socket showing how those
lamps will be switched and we put two
bedside lamps either side of the bed and
these are not operated on the 5 amp
circuit they're switched on the lamps
themselves the choice of light bulbs is
super important to the way a table lamp
or any light fitting works I personally
like most table lamps to be on a lower
wattage bulb so that they're just
providing a warm yellow
glow I also really pay attention to color
color
temperature I really try to avoid
anything above 2700 de Kelvin I stay
away from 3,000 and I definitely stay
away from 4,000 because they put out a
in this small bedroom which is a cozy
intimate space I wanted to make sure we
got a variety of different types of
Lights in this room in terms of circuits
I've broken the ceiling light and the
wall lights
up you can turn those wall lights on so
that they greet people as they come up
the stairs and it isn't just a dark room
but it equally isn't a fully lit
room I've also put a single bedside lamp
between the single beds which is not
Switched at the door but is instead
switched on the lamp
itself with a bedside lamp the height is
super important you don't want to be
distracted by the glare of a light bulb
as you're trying to read your book at
night so you size the table lamp
according to the height of the bed the
height of the bedside table and the
position of the person who's going to be reading
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