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Thursday, 24 September 2009

Wet Wet Wet: New Bathroom Lighting Catalogue Products and Regulations





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Lighting a bathroom is creative and fun.

Once finished it will provide hours of pleasure whether your need is functional or relaxation at the end of the day. It is vital that a few basic principles are followed. In the following pages we guide you through Ingress Protection and the Bathroom Regulations as well as provide detailed product specifications sheets and a price list. Our comprehensive selection includes the latest in energy efficient fluorescents and LEDs as well as shower heads and mirrors with integrated lights. Our products come in various sizes, styles, finishes and light outputs.









A Bathroom requires two forms of lighting, bright and stimulating for routine makeup and shaving and a soft subtle light for relaxing and winding down. To achieve this balance requires thought and planning. A dimmer switch, a couple of circuits and well positioned lighting will ensure the results you envisage.





There are so many wonderful bathroom light fittings on the market to enhance and enrich your scheme. The fittings range from period inspired decorative wall lights that can be functional or the focal point of the room, architectural fittings that blend in with a more contemporary decor providing task, general or accent lighting. Decorative ceiling lights, recessed floor lights, architectural wall lights, IP rated chandeliers, they are all available to give your bathroom the individuality that suits.






There are some specialized lighting effects for the more adventurous with colour changing LEDs, the back lighting of wonderful iridescent onyx, glass or the latest high tech panels. These are all possible although a little more difficult to achieve, but with a little expert advice from a lighting designer and an excellent electrician your bathroom will come alive with the beauty of light reflecting off glass, steel, water and stone.








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posted by Light IQ @ Thursday, September 24, 2009  

Thursday, 17 September 2009

Flotsam and Jetsam with a remarkable twist


Contemplating the end of summer and remembering days spent walking in the surf along the beach, I wish that I had had the imagination to create the awe-inspiring designs of Stuart Haygarth turning massive amounts of trash, including clear plastic water bottles and sunglasses into startling light creations.


Stuart Haygarth conceived the idea while collecting debris washed up on the Kent Coastline. The light fitting is composed of debris washed up by the tide which when amassed in large quantities in clever arrangements, takes on a stunning visual effect.

The Tide Chandelier gets its name from its spherical shape, a reference to the moon, whose tidal pull creates the waves that wash up the debris. The mass of plastic objects hangs delicately from monofilament lines suspended from by a wooden 'platform'.



An interesting hobby or lucrative career!

Lynda Moule

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posted by Light IQ @ Thursday, September 17, 2009  

Thursday, 10 September 2009

Spectacular ResinArt is even better when you add a bit of light

Veritas ResinArt is a new decorative resin panel brought to the UK by the same people that bought us Corian worktops and Parapan acrylic surfaces. The new arrival comes in four layers, three of which can be customised for a completely unique surface to place in restaurants, hotels, shops and offices. Alternatively, you can customise the Veritas ResinArt panels and use them as kitchen cupboards or maybe a shower door. Adding a bit of light behind the panels, however, transforms them into a luminous masterpiece as the panels glow and highlight the individual texture, colour and art form that you have uniquely chosen.





























I'm sure you'll find somewhere for these great art panels, after all they're even more durable than Parapan acrylic.



Rishi Mistry

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posted by Light IQ @ Thursday, September 10, 2009  

Thursday, 3 September 2009

Environmental Responsibility in Lighting


Started in 2003 Ango Designs encapsulates the simple balance of nature with form, a symbol of how we can live alongside nature in a technological world. Even the product names evoke the sense of a natural world - Floating nest, Ebony sky, Chrysalis sky, Full moon.

The diffusers are fabricated by hand using natural, renewable materials including rattan, mulberry tree bark and silk cocoons; the result is both organic and modern. The bases can be reused with new diffusers and the electrical components can easily be retro fitted.

Not only can we be 'green' with energy efficient lamps and lighting schemes, but also with the decorative products we choose to enhance our homes.




For more information www.angoworld.com

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posted by Light IQ @ Thursday, September 03, 2009  

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