Lighting Ideas... Room by Room

The Foyer: Lighting should help define your space, whether it's a kitchen, bathroom, lounge or bedroom. Nowhere is decorative lighting more successful than in the foyer. Big and bold, or politely refined, the correct lighting will help the entrance to your home feel warm and inviting.
Helpful Hint: When hanging a pendant in an entrance, be sure not to overwhelm the room and leave at least 2.2 meters from the fixture to the floor. Also, be sure to centre the pendant with the transom of the window if you have one above your door.
A contemporary twist on traditional style. Elegant glass shades compliment the smooth curved overlapping arm design.
Hinkley 4705VK
​The Hinkley Valley Collection 
Wall sconces make for a great compromise when there's no space for a pendant. Seeded glass can create beautiful effects in a foyer.
The Hubbarton Forge Airis Collection
Using a pendant to light your foyer and staircase while coordinating with a second in an adjoining room allows for a more formal feel.
The ​Feiss Cascade
Even if space is restricted in an entry, the area can still be up classed with a decorative sconce partnered with a table and chair.
The Feiss Maison DeVille Collection
Foyer lighting can be mixed and matched or layered. Recessed down lights pair well with with correctly placed wall sconces. A nice mix of old and new.
​Feiss Drawing Room Collection
The Kitchen: Perhaps the most important room in the home for New Zealanders, the kitchen acts as a central gathering place for the family to blend cooking, dining and socially relaxing. The lighting in a kitchen should invite you to move seamlessly between these activities easily and naturally. 
Helpful Hint: Modern traditional lighting is a blend and balance between a classical design and contemporary looks - The best of both worlds. When used correctly the results can take a room from good to great with results that will endure the test of time.
A classic, elegant look to blend with formal cabinetry can easily be achieved with pendants from the Hinkley Wingate Collection
Perfect for use over a kitchen island or large bench top to achieve a modern Tuscan look when blended with rustic decor.
Hinkley Bolla Collection
Sophisticated minimalist design, clean lines and diffused light spread throughout the room.
Elan Considine
An old world Mediterranean feel is brought to this space using a combination of pendants and a wall sconce. Hinkley Casa Collection 
A contemporary farm house feel with added sophistication with the use of fluted glass shaeds.
Feiss Weston Collection
Dining Areas: Your dining area may be part of a great room ... part lounge, kitchen and dining, or a room all its own. In any case, you will likely want a pendant or pendants centred above your dining table. From casual to formal, Laurence & Dawn can help you find the perfect selection.
Helpful Hint: To size a chandelier for your dining room, measure the length and width of your room in meters. Add those numbers together. The sum, multiplied by 83 will equal the diameter of your chandelier in millimeters. Use this as a guideline when selecting your chandelier.
Sculpture and illumination are blended together in these hand crafted custom pieces.
Hubbardton Forge Aperture Collection
Your dining area might be small, but it need not be boring.
Kichler Twig
Crystal lighting can also be contemporary and works nicely with many different tastes in decor.
Feiss Lucia Collection 
The best dining areas aren't always indoors. If you regularly dine outside Laurence & Dawn have a wide range of options for lighting up your patio dining area.
If you are looking for something formal, Laurence & Dawn have access to many different crystal chandelier collections.
Bedrooms: Whether large or cosy, master bedrooms can be formal or fun. There are lots of places for pendants and wall sconces, and depending on the ceiling heights, you might use the occasional chandelier.
Helpful Hint: There are many ideas for lighting bedrooms, from wall sconces flanking the bed to a pendant or semi-flush mount fixture centred in the room. Some use pendants flanking the bed with switch controls nearby.
​Kichler Krasi Collection
​Fredrick Ramond Mime Collection
Fredrick Ramond Ion
Bathroom Areas: There are many options for lighting a bathroom, including layering decorator and recessed lighting to create a vogue look. This way you can enjoy the light while being assured it's in the right place when you need it, such as flanking the mirror for shaving or applying makeup.
Helpful Hint: Installing dimmers on your bathroom lighting allows you to set the mood for a spa-like retreat. Consider your daily routine before deciding where and how much lighting you want. For a clean look, consider chrome or brushed nickel with white walls and cabinet finishes.
Wall sconces flanking a mirror not only look good, but also help with shaving and makeup.
Working with collections allows pairing of pendants and sconces for a fabulous look in any room. Hubbardton Forge's Antasia Collection 
Bathroom wall sconces can light an alcove or similar spot where a ceiling light won't work.
There are more than 100 American and European bathroom lighting collections available from Laurence & Dawn.
Be sure to ask us about the rules regarding placing light fixtures near wash basins in the bathroom.
Exterior Lighting Ideas: There are many options for exterior lighting, from heritage fixtures to contemporary alternatives. Besides added security for your property, exterior lighting should coordinate with your home's architecture. On the porch, an exterior lantern or soffit light will welcome your guests.
Helpful Hint: When hanging one lantern, the lantern should measure about one-third the height of the door. When hanging two lanterns, the pair should measure about 1/4 the door size. The centre of the lamp should be about 1675 mm above the threshold. 
Clean architectural lines with seeded glass give a colonial inspired look.
Kichler's Manningham 
Exterior light fittings are most commonly used at the entry, seen here flanking the doorway. 
Hinkley Harbour Collection
There's even something for that South Pacific look...
Hinkley Plantation
Heritage lighting is chosen to replicate light fittings of the early 20th century. Typically of brass construction.
Many collections offered by Laurence & Dawn blend contemporary and classical designs.
Hinkley Sullivan
Garden Lighting Ideas: Lighting your garden not only allows better enjoyment of the outdoors after dark, it also allows a view of your gardens from indoors. Mix lighting with a bit of sculpture, or spotlight a prominent tree, and add security to your home allowing enjoyment of your gardens year round.
Helpful Hint: Any great garden lighting starts with a lighting plan. At Laurence & Dawn, we will help you design your garden lighting, whether you are adding a few lights or an entire outdoor project. By mixing up-lights, path lights and down-lights, it's easy to create a magical result.
Decks are perfect places to entertain. There are dozens of ways to conceal lighting, whether 12V halogen or LED.
New Zealand's outdoor climates are demanding. Laurence & Dawn offer long lasting, purpose built with fixtures made of copper, brass, stainless steel and 99.9% pure aluminium finished with marine-grade powder coated paints.
Path lights don't necessarily have to light a path. Here the lights have been added to a garden to accent the shrubbery.
Now you can match your outdoor garden lighting with your exterior lanterns.
Hinkley Saturn 
Solid brass construction with watertight gaskets with an aged finish for a sophisticated look.
Hinkley Hardy Island