THE RISE OF BESPOKE LIGHTING SOLUTIONS

The demand for bespoke lighting has been on the rise since 2020, when people were spending more times in their homes during the pandemic and beginning to consider aesthetic and practical choices for their residential lighting. Bespoke lighting and fixings have been common in other spaces, like commercial areas and healthcare settings, because customised lighting – including human-centric lighting – can have a positive impact on our productivity and mental health, all while bringing aesthetic and style to locations.

At No Grey Area, we understand how important it is to have bespoke lighting which reflects the mood of a certain room in the home or the aesthetic of a particular public environment. If you are looking to use lighting design to enhance your workspace or implement custom-made lighting for radiant hospitality, we provide bespoke lighting to solutions to customers to support their interior design projects.

What is bespoke lighting?

Bespoke lighting is the process of creating custom-designed and crafted lighting features and fixtures which are tailored to the specific needs and requirements of a certain area or client project.

Typically, it involves creating lighting solutions that are unique and incorporate personal preferences, from retro and vintage influences to metalwork in modern architecture and design. Bespoke lighting differs from standard lighting because it allows for customisation to align with a brief or individual taste; from size, colour, shape and materials, bespoke lighting is an ideal lighting solution for any project because you can use it to create a one-of-a-kind aesthetic for any area.

As well as bringing a new lease of life to a space, bespoke lighting can also be used to:

• Enhance ambience: colour and shape can be used to increase productivity levels or create a sense of calm in different environments
• Integrate technology: bespoke lighting can be controlled by a lighting system or sensors, meaning lighting levels can be adapted
• Reinforcing branding and identity: printed walls and ceilings or fibre optic ceilings can be combined with lighting fixtures to add branding or identity to a workspace, restaurant or other business
• Encourage sustainability: certain bespoke options, like the LED strip and other lighting trends including smart lighting systems, are an ideal choice for businesses looking to maximise their sustainability

Benefits of bespoke lighting solutions

Many people choose bespoke lighting options because of the many benefits they bring. These can include:

• Unique design and aesthetics: the customisable nature of bespoke lighting means you have the freedom of being original and can express your individual style, regardless of whether you are adding character to your home kitchen or a business
• Enhanced functionality: bespoke lighting solutions can be tailored to meet the needs of specific tasks, like providing human-centric lighting to support circadian rhythm in an office to boosting productivity in a home gym
• Energy efficiency: LED lighting technology is an energy-efficient lighting solution for schools and other educational spaces because they use less energy, reduce eye strain and can be combined with tuneable white lighting to adjust colour temperature

The benefits of bespoke lighting depends entirely on the aim of your project. At No Grey Area, our expert lighting designers can support you with your goals and work with you to create a beautiful lighting display.

Customising your space with bespoke lighting

Bespoke lighting is a common option for many of our clients at No Grey Area due to its adaptability, functionality and uniqueness.

Eccentric residential lighting trends can include using fibre optic lighting, glow-in-the-dark elements or upcycled materials to repurpose old materials, but they can also combine lighting with architectural metalwork by embedding surface mounted and suspended lightboxes or ring pendants in large residential spaces.

There are several interior design trends shaping commercial spaces, including open plan layouts and biophilic walls in office spaces which help to blend collaborative areas and improve air quality and mental health. With office lighting including ambient, precision, accent, natural and decorative lighting styles, each of these can be customised to align with the productivity and aesthetic goals of a workspace.

The importance of lighting in retail design includes using guiding lights for an enhanced shopping experience – which helps to navigate the shopping journey, highlight brand identity, direct attention and enhance product presentation for the customer – which consists of natural lighting with artificial, ambient, task and accent lighting.

Choosing custom-made lighting for radiant hospitality can add visual interest and personalisation to a room in a hotel or a restaurant which can be matched to style preferences, functional needs and reinforcing brand identity. Bespoke lighting can also incorporate energy-efficient technologies; through using LED strip lighting to enhance your business, you can contribute to sustainability efforts whilst creating ambience and highlighting decor elements.

In healthcare spaces, using human-centric lighting to create wellness spaces is a common choice because it meets human needs by combining both natural and electric lighting. HCL can enhance mood and wellbeing by aligning commercial lighting with how humans operate. Colour, task lighting and biophilic design are all important parts of lighting for healthcare.

Human-centric lighting is also commonly used in education settings because it can support productivity whilst adhering to sometimes smaller budgets of schools, colleges and universities.

Bespoke lighting solutions like colour, fibre optic ceilings and printed walls and ceilings are commonly used in entertainment and exhibition lighting because it can bring more life to different events. Combining bespoke lighting with stretch ceilings or decorative acoustics can bring new excitement to an event, featuring a range of colours and other lighting fixtures throughout.

Choosing NGA for your bespoke lighting solutions

Bespoke lighting solutions can be the difference between a dull space and an ambient, welcoming environment. From wanting to entice customers into retail and hospitality areas and providing an enjoyable experience in entertainment or exhibition areas to creating a comfortable atmosphere in residential homes, healthcare settings and education spaces, bespoke lighting is the option for you.

Contact our team at No Grey Area today to see how we can support you with your bespoke lighting project.