The Lighting
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description: Professional lighting design is the practice of designing light as a system rather than selecting fixtures at the end of a project. The method runs in a fixed order: understand the medium (lumens and lux, colour temperature, colour rendering, beam and glare), read the existing conditions (the daylight across the day and the building's wiring and ceilings), write a brief based on how people actually use light (by task, time of day, age and mood), compose the scheme from four layers (ambient, task, accent and decorative), resolve the controls (zoning, switching and dimming), and document everything in a reflected ceiling plan, switching plan, fixture schedule and written specification. The Design Key — The Lighting teaches this complete method, from first principles to a scheme an electrician can install and a client can sign off. Lighting is the one material in an interior you specify without ever holding it, and the one that decides whether every other material in the room reads as intended. This is why it cannot be the last decision. A grid of downlights dropped onto a finished plan, every fixture wired to a single switch, no dimming and no layers — this is how most rooms are lit, and it is why most rooms feel flat after dark, glare in the wrong places, and leave the work surfaces in shadow. The Design Key — The Lighting exists to replace that default with a method. You begin with the medium itself. Before reading a room or choosing a fixture, you learn to describe light precisely: the difference between lumens (what a source produces) and lux (what actually lands on a surface); colour temperature and where each range belongs; colour rendering and why a cheap lamp can quietly ruin an expensive palette; beam angle and distribution; and the glare and contrast that make a technically bright room uncomfortable to be in. You learn to read a fixture's specification critically and predict its effect before it is switched on. Then you read what is already there. You assess…
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