When Should You Hire a Lighting Designer?
Once your renders and drawings are ready, and before the ceiling is final. That is the moment a lighting designer can understand what you want and still shape the ceiling around the light.
What the designer needs from you
The renders show the look you are after. The general arrangement drawing shows the layout. The reflected ceiling plan shows the ceiling. With these, a designer understands the project and can start.
Already at a later stage, with your own layout in place? The CAD drawings are enough to begin.
The one most people forget: furniture
Many people leave the furniture layout until late. But light follows furniture. The pendant sits over the dining table. The reading light sits by the bed. The wall behind the sofa needs its own light.
Confirm the furniture early, and the designer can give every space the right feel.
Why not later?
Once the ceiling is built and the wiring is in, the choices shrink. Lights end up where the cables already are, and every change means opening the ceiling again.
Before that point, it is not too late. The earlier you start, the more the lighting can do.
If you are a developer
Bring the lighting designer in before the lighting goes to tender. Then every contractor prices the same lights, and you compare like with like.
What happens next
Send us your drawings, and your renders if you have them. We will send a fixed quote within one working day. The first phase shows your own rooms lit, so you approve the look before anything is specified.
Quick answers
When is it too late to hire a lighting designer?
Once the ceiling is closed, most changes mean opening it again. Before that, it is not too late.
What should I send a lighting designer?
High-resolution renders, the general arrangement and the reflected ceiling plan in CAD, and the furniture layout if it is ready.
