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GUIDE
The order the questions are worth asking in.
This is the sequence a lighting scheme follows when it goes well, and the point at which each step becomes expensive to revisit.
- 1 · What is being lit
- A surface, a task or a room, because each needs a different beam
- 2 · The colour
- Temperature and rendering, fixed before any fitting is chosen
- 3 · The beam
- And therefore the fitting count, which follows from the surface
- 4 · What is seen
- Because glare is decided by where the fittings are, not by output
- 5 · The fittings
- Chosen for the four decisions above rather than by appearance
- 6 · The mounting
- Because the ceiling or wall decides the drop and the stand-off
- 7 · The dimming
- And the level the scheme will actually sit at
- 8 · The inspection
- Including colour consistency across the whole order
Why the order matters.
Each step constrains the next. Choosing fittings before the beam is choosing a number of them for a surface nobody has measured, and choosing output before the colour is solving the wrong half of the problem.
Where schemes usually go wrong.
Step one, skipped, and step eight, assumed. Both are cheap to settle and expensive to discover after twenty fittings are on a ceiling.