RESIDENTIAL
LIGHT, VALUES, AND STORIES By DAVID K. WARFEL
Lighting design education is generally focused on tools and techniques, setbacks, beam angles, TM-30 reports, and other critical technical aspects of our profession. As a result, I find lighting design to be the easy part of the business while client relationships present an ongoing set of challenges. Discussing their values and learning to hear their stories may present an easier way of guiding them to better light. Residential lighting designers seem to encounter two kinds of clients: those that understand the value we could bring to their project…and those that think we are crazy. Our fiercest competition is not from other lighting designers but from a lack of understanding among potential clients.
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