Interior Design Masterclass - Light Your Home

What You Will Learn?

• This lighting design masterclass shares everything you need to know to light your home efficiently and beautifully. .
• It explains all the key principles of residential lighting, and takes you through the practical process of producing a fully-resolved lighting proposal.  .
• It provides advice for every room in your home, and suggests both permanent and temporary installations - solutions for home owners, and for home renters.  .
• THIS CLASS COVERS:.
• The class project is to make a sketch lighting plan for a room in your home. .
• WHY YOU SHOULD TAKE THIS CLASS.
• Great lighting is the best gift you can give your home: it is transformational. .
• What’s the point of making a beautiful home if you don't show it off.  Good lighting is life-enhancing; it anticipates your needs, and supports daily routines by putting light in exactly the right place, and it creates beautiful, dramatic, creative, and relaxing environments.  .
• I'm Julia, I am an interior designer, and a design lecturer.  For more than 20 years I’ve split my career between design practice - including lighting design - and teaching at London’s top design school.  My classes bring practical and clear step-by-step guidance, along with professional tips, tricks and short-cuts.  .
• Your home is equal parts gallery, laboratory, theatre, and retreat, and it’s good lighting that helps you to create and switch the scenes.  .
• WHO IS THIS CLASS FOR?.
• This class assumes no prior knowledge and starts from the very beginning.  It includes simply-explained technical elements; the principles you must know to get the very best out of your home lighting scheme.  .
• Information is given in both metric and imperial measurements.  .
• This course is designed for: .
• Home builders and renovators looking to design bespoke schemes of lighting, and take a professional approach to a project .
• Home renters who want uncompromisingly good interiors and solutions they can permanently own.
• Architecture and design students looking for an immersive introduction in the subject.
• Professional suppliers, contractors and technicians who want to level up their client services .
• Clients of architects and designers who want to understand lighting, and collaborate with professionals on the very best outcomes for their property .
• Anyone who wants to improve their home lighting .
• Anyone passionate about interior design and interested in residential lighting design.
• HOW TO TAKE THIS CLASS.
• The running time for the class videos totals nearly two hours.  When you pop in exercises and you work to create a project (along with reading the class notes)  you should actually allow at least 2-3 study days if you want to produce a bespoke sketch lighting plan for a room in your home.  .
• As a first step, I recommend that you start by watching the whole class all the way through to the end.  This will help you understand the scope of the class, and the context of the exercises and project..
• Then, taking it slowly, start again at the beginning and watch again. This time stop to complete the short exercises..
• Finally, when you feel you’ve digested the materials, when you feel comfortable, start work on your live project.  .
• So, make sure to give yourself generous time for each stage, at least a couple of hours to survey your space, and a few more hours for 'painting with light' exercises, or for drafting a sketch lighting plan.  .
• It would take an experienced lighting designer a day or so to work up a scheme for your home, so give yourself ample time - this way you’ll get the very best outcomes for using light to transform your home!  .
• MATERIALS AND RESOURCES TO COMPLETE THE CLASS PROJECT.
• To complete the class project, you'll either need architect’s drawings for your home, or the following materials (so you can measure the project space and draw your own sketch scale plans):.
• Tape measure.
• Squared paper.
• Pencil.
• Eraser.
• Clipboard or book to lean on.
• Coloured, fine-tipped pens.
• Additionally, if you would like to complete the class project on paper (see below for digital options) 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.
• Digital Options:.
• If you regularly use and have access to CAD software, you could draft plans and elevations digitally.  .
• Once you have made a sketch scale plan, the practical exercises and project for the class could also be completed in standard software such as 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 above.  .
• The following downloadable resources are included with the class: .