Buying guides
Plain guides to lighting your home: chandelier sizes, the colour of light, solid brass versus plated, and the full list for a first home.
How to Size a Chandelier for Your Room (2026 Guide)
Two numbers decide whether a chandelier looks right or looks wrong: its width and how high you hang it. Here is how to work out both, with the Egyptian ceiling heights nobody accounts for.
Read the guideLighting a First Home: The Room-by-Room List
Nobody tells you how many lights an apartment actually needs. Here is the whole list, room by room, what to buy first, and the two things most people waste money on.
Read the guideWarm or Cool? A Plain Guide to Light Colour
The bulb you screw in matters more than the fixture you hang it in. Here is what the Kelvin number actually means, which one belongs in which room, and the mistake that makes a well-furnished flat feel wrong.
Read the guideSolid Brass or Plated? How to Tell, and Why It Costs More
Two lamps can look identical in a photo and be twenty years apart in how long they last. Here are the four tests you can run in a showroom — including the one that would catch us out too.
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