Interior Design Masterclass: Light Your Home

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

Created by: Julia Begbie
Interior Design Insider - Recipe For A Room

What Will I 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.

Target audience

• 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