Planning your lighting design

Planning Your Lighting Design

Now that you have an understanding of the different lighting effects within a room, you can begin learning how to combine them together so they balance successfully.

Tips for Planning a Lighting Scheme

• For an effective and flexible lighting scheme, you must be able to control the ambient, accent and task lighting separately.
• Lighting must be considered early on in a renovation or building project. Wiring is done before the walls are fully complete, so you need to think about where you want light sources as soon as you can.
• In order to understand where you need lights, you'll need to work out the placement of furniture within the room. Early planning is essential for creating a lighting scheme that suits the needs of your room.
• Take time to work out the style of a room, as well as its inhabitants. This will guide you on the sorts of lights to be used.
• Including additional 5 Amp floor outlets beneath furniture such as sofas is a way to future-proof your wiring, offering the flexibility to add additional lighting into the scheme later down the line.