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Bedroom Lighting Top Tips
Bedroom lighing is very important. It’s the first thing you see in the morning and the last thing you see at night. Soft, warm lights are perfect just before you go to sleep. There's nothing worse than blue over-stimulating lights when you’re trying to wind down. ...
Why Lighting Design Can Make Or Break Your Home
At Lightmaster, clients often wonder why they need a lighting design and think, why can’t my architect or electrician just do it? Well, they can if you want. However, eight out of ten* electricians will design most rooms with a grid of downlights or with one central...
Why Church Lighting Consultants Are Important
Lightmaster have had many amazing opportunities to work on some incredibly diverse projects. One of the areas we’ve really enjoyed is our work with church lighting. The different types of lighting required give us a real challenge when it comes to the design. Task...
The 5 Objectives of Lighting Designers
Lighting Design Creates and Improves Functionality: The most important thing about a lighting design is that it is functional. Our lighting designers spend a lot of time with our customers to learn how they use their spaces so we can light them correctly. Things like...
What is Lumen? Lumen and Lux Explained
What is Lumen? The official definition is: “a unit of luminous flux in the International System of Units, that is equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle by a source of one candela intensity radiating equally in all directions.” But even we...
Fire Rated Down Lights – What they are and whether you need them.
In any building, a ceiling helps slow the spread of fire. The ceiling will have a fire rating depending on how well it slows the spread of fire. If you install a recessed down light into a ceiling, chances are you are reducing that fire rating. The hole you cut for...
Lightmaster Product Names Explained
We get a lot of questions about our product names and how we come up with them. The names themselves can be quite tricky to say but the meaning behind them is very simple! The products are first categorised as per below. Their category dictates what the name will...
How do you turn on your Christmas lights?
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! And this comes with reams and reams of twinkling lights that somehow have to be turned on when it gets dark (somewhere around 3.30pm if you’re in the Cotswolds!). The first thing to say here is, make sure your Christmas lights...
Lightmaster Black Friday Sale
Everyone is jumping on the Black Friday band wagon and Lightmaster is no different! We have a collection of fittings which are on sale with HUGE black Friday discounts applied: Black Sasin - £40+ VAT (reduced from £96+ VAT) The Sasin is a very popular fitting but the...
IP Ratings Explained
IP rating stands for ‘Ingress Protection’ and is always followed by two numbers. The first of these two numbers refer to the level of protection from foreign bodies entering the fitting. The second of the two numbers is the protection against water ingress, the higher...
Lightmaster Control – Dimming Protocols
LED dimming can be tricky. There’s so many different ways, each of which are suited to different lamp types. This is why it is important to understand the different ways to dim an LED to ensure that a smooth and consistent level of dimming is achieved. 1-10V 1-10V...
Lightmaster Control – LED Control Kit
Our Lightmaster control guru's have nothing to do with the installation of the control kit supplied to our LED lighting design projects. They are trained engineers, not electricians.They can look at a project and discuss what kind of control options the client wants...
Lightmaster Partner – Linea Light
Lightmaster has been officially working with Linea Light since 2006 but Richard has known the company for much longer. Almost every one of all our lighting design projects have at least one Linea Light fitting installed – their lighting range is massive and the...
How to best light up your garden – Lightmaster Design
Exterior lighting is often forgotten but then what would be the point of a conservatory or big windows if all you can see at night is darkness? Light beyond the window to bring the outside in. This is especially important in the winter months- your garden shouldn't...
Lightmaster Case Study – Cherington Village Hall
The Hall in Cherington is a project we’re particularly proud of at Lightmaster. The village is only 10 minutes away from our offices in the Cotswolds and we’d already completed a number of projects in the area. In fact it was one of our clients in the village...
Lightmaster Product – Darlek Mains LED Downlight
The Darlek Mains LED Downlight was the first of the Darlek family brought out by Lightmaster. It's a 5W mains LED fitting so it does not need a driver. IP65 so ideal for bathrooms and the lens is lightly diffused so theres's no glare. The beauty of this fitting is...
Lightmaster Product Clearance – Wanotoobee Mastlight – Silver
Our Wanotoobee mastlight has been a best seller for years but due to falling sales, we recently decided to discontinue the silver version of the fitting. This has left us with a quantity of leftover stock we now want to offer to customers at a discounted rate. These...
Lightmaster Product – NEW Daviic Downlight
NEW Daviic Downlight - LMID - 2621 - Whm - 036 - 3000K - 85 SALE - ONLY £19+ VAT (Note - no other discounts can be applied to this price) For a while now, Lightmaster has been trying to sell our products to electrical contractors, but on a few jobs, we were told our...