Homeowners everywhere admire and envy the fabulous results that professional lighting designers achieve, but often remain frustrated about their ability to apply them in their own homes - to a modest budget. This title reveals the secrets of professional lighting designers, enabling the creative homeowner to bring stunning lighting effects into the modern home. Containing inspirational, full-colour photographs and crammed with advice, it guides the reader through the steps, tricks and techniques needed to create a multitude of lighting atmospheres and unique decorative features for both interior and exterior spaces. Showcasing the work of some of the world's top designers alongside hardheaded practical information, the guide should light up the whole home, not just the coffee table.
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Sharon McFarlane is a design writer and commentator with a particular interest in lighting, having managed the product database for Light, the UK’s foremost professional lighting magazine for four years. She lives and works in London, UK.
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Attention Tokyo Billionaires - This is the book for you!,
This review is from: Bright Ideas: Professional Lighting Secrets for Your Home (Hardcover)
I feel that this book is mis-categorized and inappropriatley titled. The description alleges that this book will provide "practical advise, the book guides readers through the steps, tricks and techniques needed to create a multitude of lighting atmospheres and unique decorative features for both interior and exterior spaces." This is not at all true. Unless you are a millionaire, Japanese boutique hotel designer, or avant-garde eccentric this book is not for you.
The first section provides examples of lighting schemes that are in no way practical - i.e. fancy built-ins from the homes of the very-well-to-do, a bathroom drenched in harsh neon-red light (I thought bathrooms were supposed to be soothing, not rage-inducing). The next section is basically a list of resumes from lighting design firms that would cost more to hire than the cost of my home. This is followed by what amounts to a shopping cataolg of extremely over-priced, unavailable lighting pieces. I was looking for ways to improve the lighting in my home, not by flying over some London-based designer, or spending $8000 on a chandelier the size of my couch. In addition to being inexcusably impractical, the book is poorly edited and produced. There are numerous descriptions for which there are no accompanying photos or illustrations; many descriptions accompany the wrong photo; and in one instance a sentence was cut off right in the middle, no punctutation or completion of thought. If you cant read, but want to see pretty pictures of expensive stuff, buy this book.
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Ambient lighting is low-level lighting, so subtle by design that you tend to notice it only by its absence: atmospherically, an interior with effective ambient lighting extends an unparalleled welcoming feel. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
illuminated furniture, many lighting designers, intelligent lighting, future highlights, colored lighting, lit art, ceiling coves, ambient glow, lighting solutions, accent lighting, light fittings, compact fluorescent lamps, copper mesh, ambient lighting, exterior lighting, lighting schemes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Location Private, Studio Lux, Bruce Munro, New York, Bushe Associates, Isometrix Lighting, Abbi Kiki, Designer Focus Lighting, Materials Aluminum, Designer Mathmos Year, Materials Polycarbonate, Phil Riley The Light Lab, Tumbler Flip, Designer Ben Rousseau Year, Designer Georgia Scott Designs Year, Dimensions Diam, System Muro New!
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Ambient lighting is low-level lighting, so subtle by design that you tend to notice it only by its absence: atmospherically, an interior with effective ambient lighting extends an unparalleled welcoming feel. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
illuminated furniture, many lighting designers, intelligent lighting, future highlights, colored lighting, lit art, ceiling coves, ambient glow, lighting solutions, accent lighting, light fittings, compact fluorescent lamps, copper mesh, ambient lighting, exterior lighting, lighting schemes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Location Private, Studio Lux, Bruce Munro, New York, Bushe Associates, Isometrix Lighting, Abbi Kiki, Designer Focus Lighting, Materials Aluminum, Designer Mathmos Year, Materials Polycarbonate, Phil Riley The Light Lab, Tumbler Flip, Designer Ben Rousseau Year, Designer Georgia Scott Designs Year, Dimensions Diam, System Muro New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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