Interior Design Masterclass: Light Your Home

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 kinetic

• Layering lighting – applying light to dramatically model 3D surfaces and texture

• Inspirational and creative lighting – painting light into your home

• Colour temperature – how to get consistent colour in lighting

• Colour rendering – make the colours in your home sing out

• Shape of light – lines, pools, washes, spots, and how to achieve these effects

• Quantifying fittings – calculating light for all the different rooms of the home

• Lux, Lumen, foot-candles – metric and imperial measurements of lighting

• Light fittings – different types of lighting, including the hidden budget breakers

• Lamp choice – the many specifiable qualities of different light bulbs

• Controlling light – switches, circuits and dimming

• Surveying a room – how to record the dimensions of your home

• Creating a lighting plan – clearly communicate a complete scheme of lighting

• Drawings and documents – simple advice on the key parts of professional lighting proposals

The class projectis to make a sketch lighting plan for a room in your home.

WHY YOU SHOULD TAKE THIS CLASS

Great 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 metricand imperial measurements.

HOW TO TAKE THIS CLASS

The 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!

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Frequently Asked Questions

How long do I have access to the course materials?

You can view and review the lecture materials indefinitely, like an on-demand channel.

Can I take my courses with me wherever I go?

Definitely! If you have an internet connection, courses on Udemy are available on any device at any time. If you don’t have an internet connection, some instructors also let their students download course lectures. That’s up to the instructor though, so make sure you get on their good side!