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Successful lighting design for your home | Craig Thomas, Caribou - Episode 22 (Season 11 - INTERIOR DESIGN BASICS)

Successful lighting design for your home | Craig Thomas, Caribou - Episode 22 (Season 11 - INTERIOR DESIGN BASICS)

FromGet It Right with Undercover Architect


Successful lighting design for your home | Craig Thomas, Caribou - Episode 22 (Season 11 - INTERIOR DESIGN BASICS)

FromGet It Right with Undercover Architect

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Length:
44 minutes
Released:
Apr 13, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

My guest for this episode is Craig Thomas, Managing Director of Caribou. With over 20 years in the industry, he is SUPER passionate about lighting and the impact it can have on how our homes look, feel and function. He’s got loads of helpful tips to share with you.
SHOW NOTES:
Homeowners often create their lighting design through early conversations with their electrician. By then, you can already have missed the opportunity to create a beautiful, functional result in your home, through successful (and affordable) lighting design.
Craig Thomas, Managing Director of Caribou, has over 20 years in the business, and has a huge wealth of knowledge and experience to share when it comes to achieving brilliant results with your lighting design and selections.
Caribou is a professional, dedicated and experienced team providing lighting solutions for residential, retail, commercial and industrial projects.
Based in Brisbane, Australia, Caribou works directly with architects and designers, lighting engineers, developers and builders, wholesalers, electricians and homeowners. 
For the UA home-owning audience, Caribou offer architectural interior and exterior lighting solutions to create a lifestyle that enhances your home inside and out. They understand that each project is unique and personal. Their extensive lighting collection ensures they have the solution to suit your home. And if you need help with your lighting design, they can do this too.
There’s loads of helpful information packed into this episode. I really hope you enjoy it - listen now.
I really hope you enjoy this episode. Listen now.
INTERIOR DESIGN 101
Would you like to simplify your choices, and have total clarity and confidence that your interior design will help create your beautiful, functional, feel-good home?
Interior Design 101 is a self-study, DIY program. It contains the full version of all interviews from the podcast, plus extra content specifically created for Interior Design 101. 
Inside Interior Design 101, Craig answers additional questions such as:

How to provide creative and functional lighting solutions in your bedrooms. He has some great tips for subtle lighting that helps with night-time navigation in the home, and creates a great effect.
We also talk about the assumptions people make with lighting that he finds he’s regularly busting
And he takes us through in detail how to choose the right lighting for your main areas based on lumens, watts and the other metrics that describe lighting types and fixtures.

The full interview with Craig is now inside Interior Design 101. You’ll also find full transcripts, videos, checklists, guides and so much good stuff to support you in the Interior Design of your renovation, new home or smaller project. 
Interior Design 101 has been designed to help you gain clarity and confidence in all those selections and decisions you need to make for the finishes, fixtures, colours, materials and items you’ll be living with every day. 
RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST:
Learn more about the online program, Interior Design 101 >>> www.interiordesign101.com.au
For other links mentioned on this podcast, head to www.undercoverarchitect.com/podcast-id101-lighting-design-caribou
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Released:
Apr 13, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

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