Buying Lighting
How to Choose Wall Sconces and Where to Mount Them
Wall sconces look simple in a showroom, then go up at home and suddenly glare into your eyes, stick out into a narrow hallway...
A chandelier over a bathtub looks wonderful in photos, and then the electrician arrives and says no. The problem is not taste. It is water, steam and the distance between a live fitting and a person sitting in a bath.
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Buying Lighting
Wall sconces look simple in a showroom, then go up at home and suddenly glare into your eyes, stick out into a narrow hallway...
Lighting Design
You stand at the worktop to chop an onion and your own head throws a shadow over the board.
Installation
You have bought the chandelier, it is sitting in its box in the hallway, and the old ceiling light is still up there with its...
Chandeliers
A room with a 5 metre ceiling looks spectacular in the estate agent's photos, and then you hang your first light and it looks...
Buying Lighting
You sit down with a book in the evening, and within twenty minutes your eyes ache, the page has a shadow across it, or the bulb...
Lighting Design
You hung the painting, stepped back, and it looked flat, or worse, a bright white glare sat right across the middle of the...
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