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Overall room illumination that sets a comfortable baseline — no dark corners or harsh glare.
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Accent Lighting
Highlight art, panels, or architectural features — depth and drama without over-lighting.
About This Option
Accent lighting picks out what you want noticed - artwork, a stone feature wall, a display niche, planters or a textured panel - and it works purely by contrast, which means it has to be several times brighter than the surrounding ambient level or the effect disappears. We use narrow-beam adjustable spots for art, aimed at roughly 30 degrees from vertical so light hits the piece without reflecting back into your eyes, grazing strips set close to textured walls to exaggerate relief, and small profile lights inside niches and shelving. Fixtures are chosen with high colour rendering so materials and artwork show their true tone rather than a flattened version of it. Accent circuits are always separate and dimmable, because the point of this layer is being able to shift a room from evenly lit to selectively lit in the evening. Used sparingly, it is what makes a room look designed rather than simply bright.
What's Included
- —Focal point identification across the room
- —Narrow-beam adjustable spots for artwork
- —Correct aiming angle to avoid reflected glare
- —Grazing strips for textured and stone surfaces
- —Niche and shelf profile lighting
- —High colour rendering fixture specification
- —Separate dimmable accent circuits
- —Contrast planning against the ambient level
- —Installation, aiming and scene setting
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