Hampshire Light provides expert lighting design for luxury residential and commercial settings. We set a new benchmark for quality, stunning visuals and lighting that enhances every room.
Consistently acknowledged with industry awards for our expert lighting design services and high-end, luxury products.
Our experience and longevity as leading lighting design specialists are just some of the things that sets us apart from the rest.
Modernise your home with our comprehensive lighting control and integration services for luxury properties
We work to understand your needs first and foremost, and we work collaboratively with architects, interior designers and other professionals.
We provide expert lighting design consultancy for luxury, high-end homes in Hampshire and surrounding areas. From full renovations to new builds, our lighting design services enhance your home’s natural beauty.
Find out more about how Hampshire Light can enhance your renovation or luxury home build with beautiful, opulent and fully integrated lighting schemes.
We have put together an extensive list of frequently asked questions that you will find helpful. These are organised into two sections that you can choose from. Please note our fee remains the same for both Residential and Commercial work. If you have any questions that are not covered here, please do get in touch and we will be happy to help.
To understand what it is like working with a lighting designer, please read this article
on our blog – working with a lighting designer
Many lighting techniques and effects are well within the reach of most private clients.
You can rely on our expertise, experience and passion to deliver the results within your
budget.
We are very experienced at working from plans, and over years have gained the ability to work accurately and easily to create lighting schemes for buildings that have not been built or that we have never visited. Certain types of properties we do prefer to visit if possible however – such as very historic houses or complex structures.
Absolutely! We can arrange an online meeting and carry out any further work remotely. We will provide you with a list of the products that you will need and where to source them from, using local suppliers nearby to you.
We specify from an extensive list of manufacturers built up over years of experience. We are totally independent and will build the product specification to suit your location, type of project, budget and design needs.
We work to your budget and make sure the design we create won’t cost more than what you want to spend. You will be amazed at what you can achieve by clever positioning / design experience, without spending any more than you would have done anyway! In fact we often reduce budgets as we have so much experience, and don’t need to ‘over-light’ areas as a lot of inexperienced lighting designers do.
We have a deep understanding of the needs of other professionals & contractors, and how we interact with them. We will feed into the process and advise you on how best to manage this.
We take every project on its own merits, and can provide a range of services from simple guidance/ideas/advice to a full detailed design package. Therefore this can range from 2-3 hours up to 20 hours or more if you choose to use us for other, more complex, aspects such as creating architectural lighting layouts and doing site visits.
Absolutely, we work with all types and styles of house. Whatever you need, we can help. Just adding our experience to where you place your ceiling downlights and wall lights can make all the difference! We always design our schemes to be practical as well as beautiful – especially for family homes. (Cooking, homework, cleaning are top considerations as well as entertaining & relaxing!)
Yes, garden and landscape lighting is another area of speciality for us, including water features.
Absolutely. We have vast experience with listed buildings and know how to solve the many challenges with lath & plaster ceilings, ancient walls and staircases, no ceiling voids etc…. Please have a look at our blog article for more information on this – Lighting for listed buildings in Hampshire
Yes. We can hold the meeting online and work remotely on any other aspects. This includes country specific regulations & using local suppliers/contractors.
We supply you with a relevant product list and help you research/identify where those products can be directly sourced from locally. Alternatively we can advise you on export firms in the UK who can then ship the goods to your site.
Absolutely, our lighting designers are able to work from sketched floor plans and photos. Even something as basic as an estate agent’s floorplan will give us what we need if we cannot obtain full architectural plans, sections & elevations.
We certainly do design these. We’ve covered everything in our complete guide to lighting control systems.
Yes it is but having an intelligent dimming system, correctly designed & programmed, often makes the areas easier to use and live in. Also an intelligent control system is usually able to dim lights to lower levels without flickering than you can achieve with standard dimmers.
Please bring a set of plans, plenty of photographs of the area or building in question, and any other useful insights for us such as mood-boards, magazine clippings of projects you admire, etc.
We have done many single room lighting designs, they are very popular so definitely not too small a scope.
Simply put, lighting is an art and we are experts in this. We may not know how to install a kitchen, but we absolutely know how to light one. It is easy to get kitchen lighting very wrong, and find yourself casting a shadow over the worktop, or to have very harsh lighting – or simply not enough light. If you are spending thousands on a new kitchen, it is well worth spending a few hundred to get the lighting right. Lighting can ‘make or break’ a kitchen.
Definitely. We have worked on many bathrooms and you’ll be amazed how a lighting design can take it to the next level, especially with accent lighting & soft mood lighting.
Yes, this is another area of expertise that we can fulfil – including public pools.
Always as early as possible please, once the basic floor layouts are ‘frozen’. Creating a lighting design at an early stage means that other services/consultants/contractors can work around this to avoid clashes.
We are winners of Best of Design on Houzz for 3 years running. Many of the projects we work on have also won awards. Our website itself has also won several international design awards.
No problem to do this, our hourly rate and travel rate will apply.
We can do both, whichever works best for you.
We work Monday – Friday, but not at weekends.
Watch this space.
Yes, we only work by appointment to avoid meeting clashes and client disappointment.
Yes, however from experience it is easier for you to come to the meeting and take the design away with you. You can then share this with your electrician.
Yes – we work on many sorts of projects including all types of commercial & residential sectors.
A perfect application – We work with the developer to create a suitable lighting strategy, typical layouts and specification (having taken into account the various requirements for differing layouts and sizes), then they can apply this to the full development.
No problem, send us the specifications for the luminaires and we can find the most suitable LED lamps for you. We would work on this at our usual hourly rate of £240 including VAT.
Yes, we are fully equipped to carry this out for you and can provided detailed energy assessments including looking at the use of sensors and wireless networks for control.
We work with some of the finest joinery specialists in the UK and have many years of expertise in joinery lighting. Simply send us your plans and we can create a design & detailed specification for you, working at our usual hourly rate charge. Alternatively we can arrange a meeting at our studio or can come to your workshops to figure out the best solutions. This will save you a huge amount of time and ensure the lighting looks perfect.
Yes, always very happy to do this. Simply advise us beforehand of the wholesaler’s name and we can check to see which ranges they supply, then base the design on this.
Absolutely. Please bring anyone you wish, there is no limit!
Call or send a message today to find out how we can help put the finishing touches on your dream home. Our award-winning lighting design consultants are available to discuss all of your lighting needs.
Call or send a message today to find out how we can help put the finishing touches on your dream home. Our award-winning lighting design consultants are available to discuss all of your lighting needs.
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