TRANSFORM THE SPACES IN YOUR HOME
Our role as designers is to interpret what you want to see in your home as a lighting design, and then specify the lights needed to create a beautiful space for you to live in.
A MINT design and specification opens the doors to the best lighting suppliers, allowing us to ensure you invest in quality light and get the light you deserve in your home.
With our experience and lighting acumen, we create unique lighting solutions that are easy to access, easy to install and transform your home without blowing the budget.
EVERY MINT LIGHTING DESIGN STARTS WITH A CONSULTATION
A collaborative meeting with our experienced designer to work with you to develop your lighting plan and decide what type of light you need in your home. Depending on the size of your project, the meeting will take between one to three hours. This is the first step to set you on the right path for beautiful light at home.
At MINT, we live for light.
Using our background and experience in commercial lighting, and with hundreds of residential projects around Australia behind us, we bring creative solutions to common household problems using science, maths + the art of light.
Our lighting consultants guide you through the lighting design process, answering all of your questions about light, providing expert advice for your home.
We offer three design approaches for developing your lighting design, comprehensive, curated and streamlined. Depending on what you want to achieve with the lighting in your home, your designer will work with you to determine which approach is best for you.
LIGHT + LIGHTING DESIGN
With our focus on light + lighting design, MINT brings expertise and experience, not a personal design aesthetic.
More than ever, our focus at the moment is on creating beautiful light for you, while keeping you, your family and loved ones protected. We have been working with clients around Australia remotely for years, and have a highly effective design approach that allows us to create beautiful, considered lighting designs, wherever you are. During your consultation we develop the basis for your lighting design concept, the first step in developing you design.
We offer remote consultations to all clients (via Zoom or Teams), meetings in our studio and on site - depending on the needs of your project. Reach out to us with your plans, and we’ll arrange to have a chat to discuss the specifics of your project.
Fixed Fee for Fixed Scope design services + Expert Advice
A lighting design concept is the first building block in creating light that makes your house a home. Once you have a concept for your lighting design, it needs to be evaluated and developed into a design that can be implemented. The first step of the evaluation process involves selecting light fittings to create the final effects. Those selections are then checked against construction constraints and your budget, evaluated for performance and value for money and located accurately based on their unique characteristics. Once your lights are selected and placed, switching is considered for lighting control and intuitive placement. The final piece of the puzzle is the selection of decorative lighting, adding the jewellery to your lighting design to complete the picture.
All of our clients receive access to our online directory of local and international lighting designers, opening your eyes to the amazing world of lighting design. It is a unique resource for selecting decorative lighting for your home. We have an discovered an astonishing number of local fabricators, makers and designers (there are more than 30 in Melbourne alone) and we also list electricians we’ve worked with, to help you find the rest of your project team.
LIGHT THAT ADDS BEAUTY AND FUNCTION
Avoid filling your ceiling with recessed downlights and bring light that adds beauty and function to your home with a lighting plan, designed by the experts in residential lighting design.
The images below show you just how different the same room can look with different lighting effects. Our renders are created using light calculation software, so they demonstrate real light - not just a pretty picture.
No matter what style you are building, light is so important to creating a home you will enjoy every day.
YOU CAN SEE AND FEEL THE DIFFERENCE LIGHT MAKES
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WE UNCOVER THE LIGHT THAT IS BEST FOR YOU AND YOUR HOME
There are so many options, we uncover what is best for you, and your home.
We believe it is important that you make informed decisions about how you can best implement your design and avoid making costly mistakes in your build.
Our design approach enables you to engage our expertise on a range of levels.
We work at all levels of residential construction, from project builders to bespoke architectural builders and everything in between. Depending on the team constructing your project, we craft lighting design solutions that make the most of the opportunities available to you.
MINT is an independent lighting design consultancy driven by the conviction that well-considered, effective + inspirational lighting can transform a house into a comfortable home where the light works for you.
Our independence
allows us to design light focusing on what you want to see,
how the light will look in your home,
how it should feel
and — most importantly —
how it will perform.
We look forward to transforming your home with spectacular light.