How to find the right fixtures and lighting for your space.
It’s one of the only things in your home that will motivate you or relax you. That’s how the founder of Edmonton’s Vivid Concepts Lighting + Design describes lighting. In terms of importance in design, Nick-Cole Fleshman says that lighting should be number one. “It’s really like jewellery. You get dressed and you look really good but without the jewellery to compliment it, the outfit is not finished.”
Vivid Concepts Lighting + Design specializes in medium to high-end lighting collections. It is a design-driven business whose customers are focused on lighting as a special feature in commercial or residential projects.They collaborate with architects, designers, engineers, and builders.
Fleshman has four lighting tips for people to keep in mind when embarking on design projects:
1. Find photos of rooms you like. Having visuals will help to understand the way you want your space to feel. Then you can find the right fixture that will work the way you want it to.
2. Understand how you want to feel in each room. “Lighting is all about a feeling. It affects your mood. It creates romance. It creates a feeling so that you can cook or clean or relax,” explains Fleshman. Knowing how you want to feel in each room can help you to choose the right fixtures.
3. Don’t buy based on price.”It’s counterproductive because you will find fixtures that don’t work the way you want them to. Most of the time you won’t find what should be put in the space. You can fail in scale and you can fail in finding the right fixture for the required function.” For example, what you find might not give enough light.
4. Make an appointment with a professional lighting designer. “Come in and sit down with us so that we can pull together a collection of pieces that will be unique to each space.” A professional lighting designer at Vivid Concepts + Design can help to pull all the elements together to find the perfect lighting and fixtures.
It’s one of the only things in your home that will motivate you or relax you. That’s how the founder of Edmonton’s Vivid Concepts Lighting + Design describes lighting.
Fleshman says lighting is very fashionable. There are new collections every year and her team goes to major shows in Europe that represent all the latest in lighting fashion. “We can curate with a designer a really fine collection of fixtures all from different manufacturers from all over the world. The end result is a collaboration of fixtures that are unique in each space and room. They’re there together but they are not the same and that is what makes our projects quite unique.”
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