Intelligent lighting
Light that changes how a room feels
Lighting is the fastest way to change the experience of a home — and the part most often left to whoever wired the ceiling. We design it properly, then make it move with the day.
Good lighting is not about controlling lights from an app. It's about what the room looks like at seven in the evening with people in it, and what the passage looks like at two in the morning when someone gets up.
Coming from theatre, we think in layers and levels: what should be bright, what should be soft, what should be barely there, and how it should change through the evening. Then we build the control so nobody has to think about it again.
That might mean architectural and feature lighting on dimmers, LED and RGBW detail in joinery and ceilings, outdoor and garden lighting on sunset schedules, or simply the existing fittings made intelligent behind the wall plate.
Outcomes
What good lighting design gives you
Walk in at night
Hallway lights rise gently to 20% instead of full glare, and drop again behind you.
Evenings that shift
Levels and warmth follow sunset automatically, so 18:00 and 22:00 don't look the same.
Scenes for real moments
Dinner, Movie, Entertaining, Welcome, Reading and Night — one press each.
Outside, handled
Garden, façade, pathway and pool lighting on sunrise/sunset, not on someone remembering.
Feature light that flatters
Cove, joinery and art lighting that makes the architecture look the way it was drawn.
No fitting replaced unnecessarily
In-wall modules turn existing lights into smart lights, keeping the finishes you chose.
Scope
What's included
- Lighting design and layout advice
- Smart switches, dimmers and in-wall modules
- Architectural, cove and feature lighting
- LED strip, RGBW and colour-temperature (tunable white) lighting
- Outdoor, garden, façade and pathway lighting
- Motion and presence-based lighting
- Automatic day, evening and night levels
- Sunrise / sunset and astronomical scheduling
- Entertaining, movie, welcome and night scenes
- Circuit and dimming compatibility assessment
- Integration with blinds, climate and security
- Handover and adjustment after you've lived with it
Related
Often part of the same project
Get started
Request a consultation
Tell us a little about the property and what you'd like it to do. We'll come back with next steps, usually the same working day.
Tell us which room never looks right.
Send us a message with the room, the problem or the idea. We'll tell you honestly what's possible and what it involves.