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The case for professional level lighting specification

The case for professional level lighting specification

We believe that installing a professional grade of lighting products makes sense for owners that are able to stretch their initial budge ...

Introducing.....

Introducing.....

  OWL Lighting was established almost 20 years ago.   Founders Paul & Sally Stephenson have a solid background in lighting d ...

Project News

Project News

At the start of a new year we're looking back at the lighting design projects we completed in 2021 and are looking forward to exciting new l ...

Creative lighting for a Georgian house in Hampshire

Creative lighting for a Georgian house in Hampshire

Designing lighting schemes for listed properties often presents challenges.  This project had beautiful bones but the planners had impos ...

The Lighting design process

The Lighting design process

Residential lighting projects are a collaboration exemplified by light itself.  Light is invisible until it reacts with objects – only the d ...

Country Farmhouse project

Country Farmhouse project

This was a very happy project to work on. We were engaged directly by the client and, guided by both her & her architect’s clear visi ...

Colour Series 3. Colour Consistency

Colour Series 3. Colour Consistency

In the third series on 'Colour' in lighting we look at colour consistency.   ...

Colour Series 2. Colour Rendering

Colour Series 2. Colour Rendering

  In the second video in our series on colour - we look at colour rendering & fidelity.  How do we measure the colour of whi ...

What is colour temperature?

What is colour temperature?

In the first of our short videos our founder Paul Stephenson explains 'Colour Temperature' .....   https://www.youtube.com/watch? ...

5 ways to light with Downlights

5 ways to light with Downlights

The third in our series - FIVE WAYS TO LIGHT ...with Downlights. Lighting design is part art and part technology.   Every luminaire we sele ...

Art Gallery lighting

Art Gallery lighting

In 2019 we worked with one of our favourite clients in creating a bespoke lighting design for her new Art Gallery premises. Josie Eastwoo ...

Owl Lighting on BBC - Chelsea Flower Show

Owl Lighting on BBC - Chelsea Flower Show

During Chelsea Flower Show, BBC presenter & renowned landscape gardener Adam Frost, featured Owl Lighting's design for Helen Elks Smith ...

Why use DALI control in residential lighting?

Why use DALI control in residential lighting?

The improvement in phase dimmable drivers and dimmers over recent years has reduced the advantage of the smoother more reliable dimming from ...

Lighting Design created for award winning Helen Elks Smith - Warner's Gin Show garden at RHS Chelsea 2019

Lighting Design created for award winning Helen Elks Smith - Warner's Gin Show garden at RHS Chelsea 2019

We were delighted back in October 2018 when award-winning garden designer Helen Elks Smith asked us to do the lighting design for her 2019 M ...

Chelsea Flower Show garden - award winner

Chelsea Flower Show garden - award winner

We are thrilled for award winning Helen Elks Smith who has won a Silver Gilt for her first main avenue show garden for Warners Gin Distiller ...

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2019

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2019

The Warner's Distillery Garden designed by Helen Elks Smith - RHS Chelsea 2019 We are delighted to have created a lighting scheme for the ...

Heritage & Technology combined

Heritage & Technology combined

Sometimes it can take many years to see the results of our efforts. Our Director, Paul Stephenson, set up Clearvision design & build ...

RIBA Design Day

RIBA Design Day

We're delighted to be taking part in the RIBA Design Day in Farnham, Surrey this weekend.  Come & meet leading Architects & Designer ...

5 ways to light with linear LED

5 ways to light with linear LED

1.Cove Lighting LED has greatly improved the installation of cove lighting because the dark patches (between fluorescent tubes) have been ...

5 ways to light Art

5 ways to light Art

How do you decide on the best method of lighting for your art .... a picture light or a recessed downlight, a spotlight or a floor light? ...

Art lighting talk

Art lighting talk

Art Lighting – a talk by Lighting Designer Sally Stephenson of Owl Lighting, 6 June 2018 6.30 - 7.45 pm We are delighted to have ...

Metals & Minis - trends for 2018

Metals & Minis - trends for 2018

Every two years the lighting industry gets together in Frankfurt for the world's largest lighting exhibition - ‘Light+Building’. one of t ...

A country Barn - controlled lighting

A country Barn - controlled lighting

Over the last 12 years we have established an expertise in designing lighting schemes for barns, built up over many years of working in ...

Classical Georgian newbuild with a contemporary twist

Classical Georgian newbuild with a contemporary twist

Our client is a renowned botanical illustrator and approached us to design a lighting scheme for a classical new build, on a spectacular hil ...