We have lit part or all of many large public buildings and private houses. Each has its own character and style and the owners, be they individual or corporate, have their own needs and requirements about the buildings and their content.

Upton House - National Trust

We designed new and refurbished lighting systems for the 1930s squash court at the house in 2009. The lighting was to appear historically correct during the summer when the court is displayed as originally used, but must be simply converted to provide display lighting for exhibition use during the winter. In 2009/10 we designed new lighting for two rooms within the house.

Cardiff Castle

During 2009 we surveyed and prepared a report on the lighting of six spaces within the newly restored principal rooms in this splendid building. Painstaking work will be needed to carefully weave wiring through and around the structure to small well concealed lighting sources.

Rylands Library, Manchester Reopened 2006

This grade 1 listed building was one of the first public buildings to be designed to use electric lighting. Nearly all the original light fittings are still in place. Our role on this project was to devise ways to provide additional lighting for various spaces without compromising the historic interiors or diminishing the role of the historic lighting systems. We also designed the lighting systems for the main public spaces in the new public entrance and facilities building.

The Wallace Collection, London

We have been involved in two projects at the Wallace Collection. In 1995 the Entrance Hall, Grand Staircase and Gallery 5 were refurbished and re-lit to bring out the original splendour of the spaces. In 1997 the adjacent Gallery 4 was lit in a similar way.

Grand Houses open to the public

We have lit all or part of many great houses that are open to the public. These have ranged from Palaces, to Castles, to Stately Homes. They have been in the ownership of The National Trust, private trusts or private owners. For each there has been individual problems to overcome and new challenges to meet. For some there have been individual rooms or works of art to light. In others there have been great ceilings or panelling. In nearly all of them there have been cost and conservation restraints.

Waddesdon Manor

We have been working on various aspect of this great National Trust house every year since 1989. We have added lighting to rooms in very clever ways so that rooms and objects are well lit but the source of the light is concealed.

The Houses of Parliament

We have been involved in two projects carried out in The Palace with the architects Bickerdike Allen Partners. The first was the re-lighting of the Peers’ Dining Room. This room was re-lit to produce a more restful but more interesting environment. The many pictures around the room were well lit to provide an interesting backdrop to the room. More recently we have re-lit the Committee Corridor that runs the length of The Palace. This corridor had been rather gloomy and needed lifting. The existing lighting was cleaned and augmented with an adaptable picture lighting system added along one wall. This allowed for the frequent changes of the pictures loaned for display along the corridor. In addition small concealed lights were installed in the deep alcoves around the doors to the many committee rooms.

Bishop Grosseteste College, Lincoln

We lit the chapel of this college in conjunction with the architects Bickerdike Allen Partners. For which we both received a Highly Commended award in the National Lighting Awards.

The chapel was lit using specially designed chandeliers in the central nave and a side aisle. The central chandeliers included downlighting, uplighting and electric candles all on  separate circuits. This allowed for many different lighting permutations to be created. The chandeliers in the side aisles were smaller but did also include a carefully controlled amount of directional light to illuminate some panels on the walls beside them.