John Bullock Lighting Design
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The topic that comes back time and again is 'can you help me with my ... kitchen ... bathroom ... dining room ....living room .... home office ... lighting?'
Where can we go for simple advice that doesn't involve buying expensive 'design books'?
This section is a bit of a monologue through the world of home lighting. A series of pieces that feature individual rooms, and the hows and the whys of how we light them. I'll be adding to it from time to time, taking in associated issues like lighting controls and dimmers and how to get the best from low-energy light sources..
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Home lighting - making it a bit special
Its not always in the Catalogue There are times - many times, perhaps - when the total stock of commercially available light fittings just doesn't quite do the job. There is a reason for this, of course. Those folks who make and sell light ...
31-05-2015
Think Global - Act Local!
Whilst it may be great for the ego to be swanning off to Dubai, what your Karma really needs is for you to get on your push-bike and use those finely-honed skills among your friends and neighbours, . . . and that's part of the plan down here in r...
31-03-2015
Talking about LED light bulbs
I'm glad to see that the new generation of energy-saving light bulbs are finally available on the high street. My local hardware shop in Sherborne has begun to stock LED light bulbs that replace the old incandescent lamps (and they generally out-...
08-01-2015
Lighting the Home: Design Starts Here ... not Here!
Something I'd just like to share with you, because its something that's come up a few times recently and has caused a bit of consternation at jb-ld headquarters. Its about what 'lighting design' really means .... which I thought was p...
16-09-2014
Lighting the Home: by The Rules
Introducing The Rules of Three One of the things that draws me to residential lighting design is the intensity and intimacy that drives the lighting solutions. Once the design team and the contractors have all gone home, its the clients who are le...
19-05-2014
Lighting the Home: The Kitchen: 2
The Kitchen - a balancing act My previous post about lighting for kitchens was deliberately short and to the point - kitchens are workshops and should be treated as such. But let's develop that theme a bit further, as a few commentators have e...
04-02-2014
Lighting the Home: The Basics
Let's look at the fundamentals of what we need to look for in our lighting: It all comes down to: how much light / where is the light / what does the light say: And these three things are seriously interwoven into our lives. A note on the ...
25-11-2013
Lighting the Home: all those Lamps!
Comparing lamps for use in the home {IMG} Tungsten filament lamp: The least efficient of all electric lamps. Phased-out over the past few years, with government looking for a shift towards low-energy lighting. A 60W lamp could be bought for ...
23-01-2013
Lighting the Home: Keeping it Real
Once Upon A Scheme This how it goes: you've briefed your lighting designer, s/he's gone away and thought about stuff for a bit, and now s/he's back with a brimful of ideas of the What-Could-Be! Because this is The Moment, a con...
07-08-2011
Lighting the Home: Having Fun!
No Need To Be Embarrassed! There has always been an aura of mystery surrounding lighting design. In fact, back in the heady days of the 1980s, when it really kicked off, there was one lighting designer who always went around in a clo...
04-08-2011
Lighting the Home: The Bathroom 2
Bathroom Lighting 2 Once you've sorted out the lighting around the wash-basin, you can be as playful as you like around the rest of the room - one client is contemplating an illuminated dog on a shelf above the WC (no - please don't a...
29-06-2011
Lighting the Home: Lighting Control
A Few Words on Lighting Controls for the Home One of things that's surprised me over the past few years is the number of times that a new client has said to me: 'I don't have to have one of those control systems, do I?' Clearly, th...
06-06-2011
Lighting the Home: The Kitchen 1
Lighting the Kitchen: 1 - the workshop of the world It doesn't matter whether you're turning out gourmet offerings or turning out TV dinners from a foil tray - the kitchen is a workshop and you need to be able to see what you're doing....
02-06-2011
Lighting the Home: The Bathroom 1
The Bathroom: 1 - the washbasin There's no reason to flood (pardon me!) a bathroom with loads of light, unless that's what you want to do, of course - and unless you NEED loads of light (lighting designers - like everyone else - often forg...
27-05-2011
