Kitchen
Lighting Design Specialists
Kitchens are the most lived in areas of the house. It's a place
where all the family get together and having the correct lighting
and electrical power at hand for laptops, ipads and iphones is
important to avoid a trail of extentions all over the place. The
under unit, over unit and plinth lighting will create a great
ambience and define the kitchen worktops and floor. It creates a
relaxing mood for after dinner drinks and entertaining.
Lighting above dining tables in the way of dimmable pendants
creates an intimate mood for those candle lit dinners.
We have used LED strip lighting to give this kitchen a modern
but warm look.
We installed downlights with blue LED lamps that give a great
effect at night.
By using white spotlights and wall switches, we have kept the look of the kitchen white and minimal without too many outstanding accessories.
Our fire rated spotlights are installed using laser lines to
ensure even spacing and a pleasing look.
In areas such as hallways and rest rooms, we install presence
sensors to activate the lights and in this case, the totally silent
WC extractor fan. This saves enery on lights that are
normally left on and hygenically, enables operations of lights
without touching wall switches.
LED strip lights in warm white create a great light effect
utilising the minimum of energy and at the same time, giving off
bright light
Installing worktop sockets with USB connectors (chargers) is a
great way of avoiding cables plugged into extentions accross the
floor that can cause accidents.
IT SOLUTIONS
We specialise in AV (Audio Visual) installations. This TV has networking connections so that other items such as satelite or cable TV can be viewed here. We can also control the TV by iphone or ipad
Installing speakers into the ceilings and blending them in so that they do not stand out too much. The speakers are controlled by volume controllers on the wall.
The Extractor Fan here was installed precisely above the worktop and all positioning & planning was pre-arranged so that at the time of install, the ducting was situated in the correct place. The isolator was located on a grid switch system nearby.
This area has been prepared for TV with a power socket and TV
aerial/Cat 5 Networking cable RJ45) and to the right is the monitor
for the door entry system. The door entry video system in
this case has 2 monitors; 1 on each level of the house and a call
from the front door can be answered from either monitor which also
acts as an intercom internally.
We Have installed LED Stair lights. These low level lights have
a separate LED Driver. They only use 3 watts each making them very
economical to use.
We have used the same LED stair lights at low level. These give
a great light at night and creates a very nice warm effect and
brings out the richness of the wood floor.
In this installation, we have used round LEDs that do not
require an LED driver. They look beautiful at night and create very
nice mood lighting.
On the right here is a typical install of a down light (spot
light). We use Aurora or Knightsbridge brands which are fire rated
from 30 mins to 90 minutes. In the majority of cases, we
install 230V GU10 fittings. You can then choose a lamp colour
you prefer for example a GU10 LED 3000k warm white or 2700k very
warm white or a 6000k cool white. LED lamps do not get extermly hot
as the old halogen lamps, making them safer in the installation.
Also, approx 10 new LED lamps will consume the energy of just one
old 50w halogen lamp as the new LED GU10's are rated at about 5
watts each. We can also supply dimmable GU10 lamps. However,
the dimmer controlling the lights must be changed to a trailing
edge LED dimmer module. We can do this and if the dimmer switch you
have is for example a metal plate designed unit, we can just change
the dimmer module so that you can keep the original switch plate if
you require.
Above, we have installed Extra Low
Voltage, IP68 Marine grade LED spot lights. These lights are only
rated at 3 Watts each and give a great light. At night, they make
great mood lighting when the main room lights are turned
off.
For external lighting we use a different range of products and
lamp colours but always use LED for enery saving and longevity of
the product. On the picture to the left, we have used blue LEDs
that stand out on a bright white external wall and in the centre
photo we have installed downlights (spotlights) with the same blue
LEDs. The car parking and external wall have been lit with warm
white lights to assist the customer with parking.
In this installation we installed downlights all the way around
the perimeter of the lounge/kitchen room and installed blue LEDs to
create a warm feeling without having to turn all the room lights
on. In the Hot Tub room we installed 2 super 6 inch fans and
waterproof speakers. The spot lights were IP65 rated to comply with
regulations. We installed the TV behind a double glass cover and
could view TV using hdmi over 2 x cat5 cables