The lighting of a home presents perhaps the most demanding of design challenges. The need to understand the family's way of life is as important as understanding the architectural spaces and external areas. Lighting can be used to invoke calm or excitement and must be sympathetically integrated into the particular style of building in question.

The need to enliven a room with poor daylight on a gloomy winter's day may have to be balanced with the need for a romantic scene or dinner party. It is usually desirable for these individual lighting scenes to be created at the touch of a single button. This is where dpa's intimate knowledge of appropriate and affordable lighting control is essential.

dpa are involved with projects as diverse as the lighting of a single picture, the lighting design of a contemporary apartment and the exploration of lighting solutions for a large estate. Lighting of external areas should not be forgotten. It can be used to considerable benefit to effectively create additional rooms. It can add a further dimension to a space, in practical and economic ways. Exterior lighting needs as much consideration as interior lighting and again should reflect the personality of the occupants whilst respecting and revealing the architecture and landscape.

At dpa we have established a flexible, creative and practical approach to the lighting design of residential properties.