Lighting for outdoor living is completely different to lighting indoors. You don't want to be blasted with light - you want to get a sense of the entire space, and enjoy sitting in gentle light that inspires hours of conversation with friends and family.
Read moreLighting a Lavish Loo or Powder Room?
It might be the smallest room in the house – but it’s one of the most vital to our comfort. It’s also a room that everyone goes to every day – usually many times!
Truly, in such a small room, regardless of colour and anything else going on, you really don’t need much light at all – so you can really go wild – let your freak flag fly!
Read moreGet the Industrial Lighting LOOK in your Home
Oversize pendants are fantastic for creating a human scale in a large space, and usually, industrial style is used in large spaces to break them up and give them personality. So think BIG when choosing your pendants - and with all those hard surfaces, think fabric too - it'll help control the noise levels in your exposed brick/concrete room.
Read moreLIGHTING - in the Kitchen Cupboard
Installing light inside your cupboards is fantastic for functionality, and also means you need less light in the room overall because any “detail work” you do is task lit. Brilliant! If you plan for this early enough in your project, it’s also a very cheap, simple solution. Forget to plan for it however, and you might find it costs a bit more to get the cables to the right place. Never lose that favourite pair of shoes, or tin of soup again!
Read moreAUTHENTIC LIGHT LAUNCH
MINT Lighting launched Adele's first book - AUTHENTIC LIGHT - Made in Melbourne (you can buy a copy here now) to a crowd of over 60 designers and design lovers with live music and champagne. It was a fantastic night all round, and a wonderful display of the talented designers of Melbourne.
Read moreBedroom Lighting Inspo and Ideas!
Bedrooms are one of the most personal spaces in our homes. They are our sanctuary. Bedroom lighting however, is often overlooked, leaving people with (usually) 4 standard layout downlights glaring down on them. Check out MINT's light story about bedroom trends in lighting.
Read moreAmbience for Function or Function for Ambience?
The difference between lighting that is designed for your home and light which is installed purely for function (downlights) is the exquisite combination of beauty (ambience) and function that you can achieve with crafted light.
Read moreEasy Ways to Fix that Gloomy Room for Winter!
Of course, if you want beautiful pieces that add to your interior style as well, there are as many styles, shapes and designs for table and floor lamps as there are lighting shops. Some will be a beautiful piece of art in your home that makes a little light, others will have been designed to produce as much light as possible and have a dramatic impact on your room. The choice is ultimately yours.
Read more5 Lighting Trends for 2017
Decorative Lighting trends come and go - at the moment I'm reliably informed that natural materials - stone, marble and rare metals are appearing in catalogues everywhere.
Read moreMeet Jan Flook, Melbourne's Milan trained maker!
I decided to go it alone and pursued my love of all things recycled. I made some light fixtures that were a bit cheeky out of kitchen utensils and chopsticks and had an exhibition called 'Sleeping on the streets'. A piece was bought by someone and seen by the late great Geoffrey Mance (bless him too). He said come and make lights for me and I said .......err ok.
Read moreThe Future of Light
The next stage will be the data captured and stored by our lighting - registering our patterns and using that information to intuit our needs. We've seen it in movies - and it will become part of our reality.
Read moreWhat do you want to see?....HOME LIGHTING
What do you want to SEE in your home? It's an important question, and one worth considering...
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