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The Challenge
With no access to natural daylight, this stunning basement wellness suite risked feeling flat and disconnected. The luxury basement is a home to a swimming pool, a spa, a wine cellar, a cinema, and entertainment and snooker room and a gym. The client wanted to enhance each space, shaping the way it could be experiences whilst feeling cohesive and connected.
The Solution
To the swimming pool area, we concealed linear lighting into the ceiling to provide an ambient wash of light. Dimmable LED fittings allow the client to soften the atmosphere through scene keypad control, creating the ideal environment for evening relaxations. Bright lighting provides illumination to the perimeter of the swimming pool, opening the space, making it appear bigger. Dimmer and warmer lighting creates a more relaxed ambience, adding depth and drama to the space.
Above the relaxation spa, concealed linear lighting was used within a ceiling coffer providing a cool and serene feel to the space. In addition to warm white lighting, various coloured lighting can be set to aid relaxation or enhance entertainment.
Light creates a visually stunning spa retreat
Colour changing lights within the swimming pool and spa provide an additional lighting feature to complement the space or add an accent – adding a unique feature to this prime residence.
Elegant and practical lighting
A mix of warm and cool lighting was used in the sauna and steam room creating a spa-like retreat, to enhance relaxation and rejuvenation. Using cool lighting in the steam room subtly highlights the blue mosaic tiling, providing a cool glow of light into the space. It was important to use warm lighting in the sauna and treatment room to create the ultimate, relaxing spa experience. Concealed linear lighting, creates a warm and calm ambience, highlighting the wooden wall coverings providing the perfect spa-like atmosphere.
The basement complex includes a home cinema, where we used warm, emotive colours to establish the right amount of drama to enhance the viewing.
Warm lighting delivers an immersive home theatre experience
Concealed linear lighting provides a warm glow of light that can be dimmed down subtly, allowing for gradual adjustment of the eyes. Using dimmable warm lighting is paramount to creating a truly authentic cinematic experience. Simple to use elegant keypads, allow the client to control the ambience of the cinema room effectively with the ability to program lighting scenes to raise the lighting level if the film is paused.
Throughout this basement complex, the lighting is controlled by a lighting control system. This allows preset lighting scenes, moods and colours to be simply controlled by a single button press ensuring the perfect atmosphere can be achieved easily.
Creating the ultimate dramatic impact
The cinema room is connected to an entertainment room, where we used concealed linear lighting to the ceiling coffers, to provide illumination to the snooker table, wooden flooring, and the picture frames. Using glare free, bright light in this area, allows the individual areas within the open plan room to be visually separated.
In the bespoke wine cellar, we used a layered lighting approach to create the perfect dramatic impact, helping the space appear taller and deeper. Using LED linear lighting to the shelf allows for appropriate illumination, creating a contrast between light and shadow. We used concealed light fittings to draw attention to the materials without any glare or harsh shadows.
The lighting design is simple and supports relaxation, wellness and entertainment effortlessly.
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