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Create Atmosphere with Event Lighting

For those planning weddings in Maryland, lighting is essential to highlight the beauty of the venue, add warmth, and set the tone for a roma

Lighting plays a significant role in setting the mood for any event. Whether it’s a large celebration or an intimate gathering, the right lighting can elevate the atmosphere and create lasting memories. For those planning weddings in Maryland, lighting is essential to highlight the beauty of the venue, add warmth, and set the tone for a romantic evening. Soft, elegant lighting helps make the bride and groom the focal point of the event, while creative lighting designs can transform a simple venue into something magical.

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Lighting Design Tips: Corporate and Special Events

Lighting plans and design are essential to corporate and special events. There are many factors to consider when approaching event lighting. A lighting plan may yield outstanding results for one venue or event, but fall short of its mark for different occasion.

We’ve compiled a quick list to help your next event shine a little brighter:

Colours & Highlights

Utilizing colour lighting and highlight room features is a fantastic way to make any event room pop. Colour scheme uplighters and gobos can add a dramatic effect that will please your guests’ sense of adventure. Highlighting guest service areas—such as a bar—is a splendid way to encourage guests to utilize these services while adding lighting dynamics to an event.

Lighting Plan

Great planning is beneficial to any event. Take the time to map out your chosen venue, staging areas, and then, play with a few concepts. Seeing your venue and staging plans on paper is helpful in understanding and conceptualize any lighting plan. It allows the visualization of placement, theme, and any equipment that might be needed for your event. Lighting plans are a great way to begin any project if you are not doing so yet.

Ask the QuestionsWhen in doubt, ask questions!

Asking the right questions when uncertainty arises can save you very much time and money. Engaging a business partner or friend for a second opinion is a great way to understand if a specific lighting plan, colour scheme, or arrangement is aesthetically working as you hoped. Don’t be afraid to ask those questions; often times the right questions lead to new and exciting direction.

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Some Kitchen Lighting Design Tips

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Ambient Lightening - This is the general frail fashionable the room. This type of kitchen lighting is needed for all casual activities. This can be achieved through the wonting of reflected level off for variegated surfaces. An document of this is form lighting.<\p>

Task Electric lighting - An example is under-cabinet klieg light since they make excellent task lighting. This kind of kitchen lighting is commonly achieved with small leger sources using higher and more focused levels of sovereignty with a synchronism of lower cabinet lights and overhead way of thinking that are strategically settled. This word of overhead lighting decidedness be mostly generate in closets, pantries, cabinets, or drawers.<\p>

Decorative Lighting - This type with respect to tearoom enlightening can add sophistication and color to a space.<\p>

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James Mahoney is the author of very many storeroom fashion articles and has a mise-en-scene about kitchen design ideas at Storeroom Designers Ideas.com. He in like manner publishes a letters credential on kitchen design.<\p>

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Lighting Floral Arrangements

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with Gloria Battista-Collins on a photoshoot of her amazing flower arrangements. Lighting floral arrangements is something I've become rather interested in lately. It seems to me there are two ways to approach lighting floral arrangments and it's in combining the two ways of thinking that you get a balance. Floral arrangments are works of art made of living things. At the same time we experience flowers primarily in nature, so to our eye lighting floral arrangements from relatively natural angles is usually the best bet. Here are some simple tips for good floral lighting...

  For Special Events such as weddings..

Set your flowers off with contrasting colors in the back light and clear warm key light. 

If possible don't light your floral arrangements at a ninety degree (straight down) angle. 

Don't be afraid of shadows...let the light fall through petals and stems to create texture

In Your Home...

Floral arrangements are a great way to set off focal points in your home. When planning renovations concerning lighting, make sure your designer creates ways to light mantles, table tops, and focal areas with multiple adjustable sources.

Sometimes, a single key light on a floral arrangment can change everything.

Accenting your mantle or table top softly and then letting the arrangement "pop" with an added key light will make your floral arrangements look amazing. 

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Thoughts? Questions? Find me on Facebook or on Twitter. Many thanks to Gloria for opening up her home and her talent to me. To find out more about her work head to her website. 

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Don't neglect your closet lighting

When one thinks of a beautiful home, there are things that immediately come to mind. An amazing entryway, or perhaps a library with impossibly tall ceilings, a sitting room with bay windows and an ocean view. What rarely comes to mind...closets. I'm not talking about giantic walk-in closets that double as dressing rooms, I'm talking about the simple, humble closet. 

Often, it's the closet where people skimp. Why spend money on finish details or good lighting in the closet? I'm going to spend far less time rumaging through it than I will, for instance, in my kitchen.

This is the exact wrong way to think about closet lighting to me. Perhaps your closet will only be open 5% of the time you're home...maybe less. But that's no reason to skimp on high-quality lighting in the closet.

Closets are where you decide what you're going to wear. High quality lighting it key to choosing the right colors. 

If you're closet is well lit you don't need to turn on every light in the bedroom to choose your clothes. This is particularly useful if you and your spouse are on different schedules. 

If your closet stores more than clothing fully lighting in the interior makes it a lot easier to find things your looking for.

A big part of a home feeling well lit is having light where you need it. Closets are one of those places. You can have the most magnificent chandelier in your entryway, but if the hall closet is dark, your home won't feel well lit. Remember, one of the primary purposes of lighting is simply to see. So how do you light a closet well?

Angle is everything - I like a closet light mounted at the header of the closet door, throwing light in a wide beam at a 30 - 45 degree angle. 

Bright - I'm not one to over light a space, but closets are not the place to skimp on illumination. 

High CRI - When I specify a closet light I either specify Halogen or High-CRI LED. Color correctness is very important in this application. If you're going with LED look for a color temperature between 3000K and 3500K

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If you're worried about the budget - hire a lighting designer.

In today's economy everyone feels at least a little pinched financially. Whether you're a homeowner and head of a family planning a renovation or you're planning a company's next major event, the ever-present pressure of the budget bears weight on every decision you make. Many people's reaction to tight budgets is to go lean on personnel, very often limiting the number of designers and consultants is seen as key to keeping hte budget under control. I'm here to tell you that if you want to save money in the long run hire a lighting designer for your next project. 

A good lighting designer will charge a fee, and when you're planning out a project adding another line item feels killer. This is especially true when other members of your team might already be thinking about lighting for the project. Let's start with architecture. A perfectly reasonable question might arise like:

But, my architect can do the lighting layout, right?

Yes, architects do have lighting training that came with their degree. But there are some key differences between what an architect does and what a lighting designer does and these difference can be cost savers in the long run. 

Lighting Designers have the resources and product knowledge at their disposal to create "out of the box" solutions for the lighting challenges faced on the project. 

Having a dedicated lighting designer on board relieves the architect of making sure the lighting provided by the contractors meets the specs. 

Often the expense of a lighting solution comes from elements you can't see directly. The build and quality of the fixtures in question is often not readily apparent. Lighting designer take the time to review samples and kick the tires on these fixtures. Our job is to be dedicated lighting experts. We can match the most cost effective solutions to the desired effect. 

A good lighting designer can help you think exclusively about how the space created by your architect can be lit to it's fullest potential. Many times architects don't see the beauty in what they themselves have created. 

In the event world, a smiliar question arises:

I already have to hire a production company to come in and set up the lights. Why would I add a lighting designer to the mix? 

If you're creating a high-end event you must hire a lighting a designer. Having designed lighting is not the same as having "lights." It's tailoring a solution to create an amazing and unique look for your event. In the end we also save you money...

Lighting designers are completely independent of production houses. Good lighting designers will have strong relationships with multiple production houses and should be able to generate bids from multiple houses for you. 

Since LDs get a flat fee and aren't tired to a production house, we're not out to over-light the event or use more gear and labor than is necessary. Good design has a spareness to it, a use of the least amount of resources possible. We get paid the same, whether you use 10 lights or a 100. 

Solid lighting design will make your other investments look that much more valuable. As one LD put it, "If you spend $5,000 on flowers, I can make it look like you spent $15,000" 

When you're planning out your next project, remember a lighting designer is going to save you money in the long run by helping you plan out all of the lighting design decisions and finding what will work for you and your budget. 

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Show Not Tell - The Value of the Mockup

The other day, I was at a meeting for a client (a married couple) who's renovating a new apartment. One of the design lynchpins was a molding detail. Specifically, what moldings would go into the living room and dining room and how would we light them. 

When you read productivity blogs and the like everyone tells you that meetings are useless. They generally waste time and don't allow people to get "real" work done. Nothing could be futher from the truth with this particular meeting. Here's why. 

The meeting was "Show, not Tell" meeting. Rather than endlessly discuss what possible molding could be in the space, our architect ordered half a dozen samples, none of them were going to be the exact right profile, but they would show our client what the various scales and shapes of molding would do in relation to the existing beams. With the molding samples tacked to the wall, I could hop on the ladder with my cove light samples and hold the light up. Showing everyone what the lighting effect would be of this kind of cove.

What we did was minimize the guess work. We showed them what they could expect rather than telling them. Now, the team feels good. We're all on the same page updating drawings and moving the ball forward. 

Remember, show don't tell.