Interior Design Masterclass: Light Your Home

Creating beautiful and practical lighting solutions for your owned or rented home

What you'll learn

Understand the key principles of home lighting

Explore the creative potential for lighting in your own home

Transform home lighting within both owned and rented accommodation

Calculate how much light you need in the various rooms in your home

Understand how to apply lighting differently in different rooms of the home

Create drama and impact using lighting effects and the shape of light

Choose light bulbs based knowledge and understanding of their technical performance

Complete a sketch lighting plan for a room in your home

Control lighting creatively with particular moods and scenes in mind

Requirements

No prior knowledge is needed: you will learn everything you need to know.

You'll either need architect’s drawings for your home, or the following materials (so you can follow lessons on drawing your own scale plans): tape measure, squared paper, pencil, eraser, clipboard or a book to lean on, fine-tipped pens in different colours

To complete the class project on paper you’ll need: a ruler, masking tape, tracing paper (or kitchen baking paper - non-waxed, non-silicon), plain paper, a yellow pencil crayon or highlighter pen

If you use CAD software regularly, you could draft plans digitally. Once you have a scale plan, the class project for the class could be completed in programmes like PowerPoint, Keynote, Procreate, Photoshop, Illustrator. Please note, the class does not include instruction on how to use these software programmes - the digital option is for regular users of the software mentioned.

To watch the class and read the notes, study time is approximately 2-3 hours. If you'd like to create a sketch lighting plan for a room in your home, you should allow a total study time of 2-3 days.

Good organisational skills, to follow lessons on drawing to scale and creating a lighting plan.

Description

This lighting design masterclass shares everything you need to know to light your home efficiently and beautifully.It explains all the key principles of residential lighting, and takes you through the practical process of producing a fully-resolved lighting proposal.It provides advice for every room in your home, and suggests both permanent and temporary installations - solutions for home owners, and for home renters.THIS CLASS COVERS:Types of lighting - general, task, accent, decorative and kineticLayering lighting - applying light to dramatically model 3D surfaces and textureInspirational and creative lighting - painting light into your homeColour temperature - how to get consistent colour in lightingColour rendering - make the colours in your home sing outShape of light - lines, pools, washes, spots, and how to achieve these effectsQuantifying fittings - calculating light for all the different rooms of the homeLux, Lumen, foot-candles - metric and imperial measurements of lightingLight fittings - different types of lighting, including the hidden budget breakersLamp choice - the many specifiable qualities of different light bulbsControlling light - switches, circuits and dimmingSurveying a room - how to record the dimensions of your homeCreating a lighting plan - clearly communicate a complete scheme of lightingDrawings and documents - simple advice on the key parts of professional lighting proposalsThe class project is to make a sketch lighting plan for a room in your home.WHY YOU SHOULD TAKE THIS CLASSGreat lighting is the best gift you can give your home: it is transformational.What’s the point of making a beautiful home if you don't show it off. Good lighting is life-enhancing; it anticipates your needs, and supports daily routines by putting light in exactly the right place, and it creates beautiful, dramatic, creative, and relaxing environments.I'm Julia, I am an interior designer, and a design lecturer. For more than 20 years I’ve split my career between design practice - including lighting design - and teaching at London’s top design school. My classes bring practical and clear step-by-step guidance, along with professional tips, tricks and short-cuts.Your home is equal parts gallery, laboratory, theatre, and retreat, and it’s good lighting that helps you to create and switch the scenes.This class assumes no prior knowledge and starts from the very beginning. It includes simply-explained technical elements; the principles you must know to get the very best out of your home lighting scheme.Information is given in both metric and imperial measurements.HOW TO TAKE THIS CLASSThe running time for the class videos totals nearly two hours. When you pop in exercises and you work to create a project (along with reading the class notes) you should actually allow at least 2-3 study days if you want to produce a bespoke sketch lighting plan for a room in your home.As a first step, start by watching the whole class all the way through to the end. This will help you understand the scope of the class, and the context of the exercises and project.Then, taking it slowly, start again at the beginning and watch again. This time stop to complete the short exercises.Finally, when you feel you’ve digested the materials, when you feel comfortable, start work on your live project.So, make sure to give yourself generous time for each stage, at least a couple of hours to survey your space, and a few more hours for 'painting with light' exercises, or for drafting a sketch lighting plan.It would take an experienced lighting designer a day or so to work up a scheme for your home, so give yourself ample time - this way you’ll get the very best outcomes for using light to transform your home!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 The Class Project

Section 2: Learning About Lighting

Lecture 3 Layering Light

Lecture 4 General, Task, and Accent (or Feature) Lighting

Lecture 5 Painting with Light

Lecture 6 Colour Temperature

Lecture 7 Colour Rendering

Lecture 8 The Shape of Light

Lecture 9 Lamp Accessories

Lecture 10 Lamp Types

Lecture 11 Lux versus Lumen

Lecture 12 Optional Exercise One - Looking at Lamps

Lecture 13 Controlling Light

Lecture 14 Kinetic and Decorative Lighting

Lecture 15 Daylight

Lecture 16 Optional Exercise Two - Finding Inspiration Online

Lecture 17 Living Rituals

Lecture 18 A Demonstration of Painting with Light

Lecture 19 Optional Exercise Three - Finding Inspiration in Real Life

Section 3: The Class Project

Lecture 20 Survey Your Room

Lecture 21 Draw a Plan from Survey Notes

Lecture 22 The Lighting Plan - Part I

Lecture 23 The Lighting Plan - Part II

Lecture 24 Switches and Schedules

Lecture 25 The Design Process

Section 4: Conclusion

Lecture 26 Short-Term Solutions and Rented Homes

Lecture 27 Conclusion

Home builders and renovators - anyone remodelling their home,Home renters - anyone who wants uncompromisingly good interiors using products they can own,Architecture and design students - learn to take a professional approach to residential lighting,Clients of architects and designers who want to understand and discuss finer details,Anyone who wants to improve their home lighting - even in small ways,Service providers and suppliers wishing to offer additional value to their clients and customers