Musings from a Lighting Designer

I am currently working on a number of large churches where we are hoping to use some elegant custom made hoop chandeliers with low energy low maintenance LED lamps (current favourite for these lamps is the Philips 10W MasterLED).

With beautiful spaces such as churches it is important to minimise the visual impact on the building with respect to cabling and transformers. These hoops use low voltage lamps, so with up to 4 transformers per hoop, and 13 hoops per church there is a danger that the interior will be blighted by lots of ugly boxes housing the transformers.

The solution…VoltMaster from Multiload. Their very clever technology allows the transformers to be located up to 50m away from the light sources using slender low voltage cable. A very intelligent and elegant solution.

Want to add mood lighting to your living room or bedroom? Don’t have any money to spend? No problem!

One of the best lighting effects there is happens also to be the cheapest. For most of us it is free!

Ok enough fanfare … I will cut to the chase: Take an ordinary table lamp and put it on the floor in the corner of your room, preferably behind a table, chair, or large pot plant. Turn it on and you will get a discreet plume of light up the walls and onto the ceiling, effectively silhouetting the table/chair/pot-plant. The exact effect you will get will depend on the type of lampshade you have. You may find it better to take the lamp shade off.

Give it a go. You will be surprised just how wonderful the effect is.