Lighting, circuit by circuit.
Every lighting circuit in the property lands on our own keypads and our own board. Grouping follows how the family actually lives, and the scenes are set with them in the house on handover day rather than guessed from a drawing.
We make thisLuminaires, keys, scenes and the design are ours. This is the skene.
σκηνήskēnēWhat lands on your keypads.
On/off, dimming, tunable white
Per circuit, on trailing-edge dimmers rated for the fittings your lighting designer specified.
Scenes per room
Set on handover day with whoever will use them, then editable from the app or a keypad.
Keypads that say what they do
Legends engraved in-house, so a plate reads “Kitchen · island” instead of a number.
Daylight and occupancy
Optional sensors on corridors and service areas, so lights are not on for an empty room.
What we do not do
We do not supply light fittings, and we do not design the lighting scheme. We take your designer's schedule and make it switch correctly. If there is no scheme yet, we will say so before quoting.
Fewer lux on the floor. A brighter room.
Walls fill roughly three quarters of what you see, and they hand back most of the light they get. The floor fills a tenth and swallows it. Light the floor and you are paying to illuminate the one surface nobody looks at.
As usually built
12 downlights on a grid.
Same light, at the walls
6 wall-washers.
In layers
Wall wash, accent, task.
The middle room draws 40% less power and measures fewer lux underfoot — and reads brighter, because the surfaces you actually look at are the ones that are lit.
Light is designed in layers, not in fittings.
A room lit by one bright circuit has one mood. The same room split into four layers has as many moods as you have scenes — and the layers, not the fittings, are what a scheme is actually designed around.
01 · Ambient
The general level: coves, downlights, the light you read the room by. Designed first, then deliberately kept low — most villas are over-lit at this layer and every other layer then has to shout.
02 · Task
Light where something is done: kitchen island, hob, desk, mirror, dining table. Aimed and dimmed separately, because a task level that suits chopping is unbearable over dinner.
03 · Accent
Wall washes, art, joinery, planting. Roughly three times the ambient level on the object itself — under that and it reads as a mistake rather than emphasis.
04 · Path and decorative
Floor markers, stair nosing, skirting, and the fittings that are there to be looked at. This is the layer that carries a house at night, on its own, at single-digit levels.
A scene is a level per layer, not a button.
Every scene below is the same four layers at different levels. This is what we set with you in the house on handover day — pick one and watch where the light goes.
Twelve words that change the conversation.
Not jargon — the vocabulary of the trade, in plain words. Use them on us and on everyone else you talk to. Whoever cannot answer in these terms has not designed lighting before.
- Wall wash
- A fitting set back about a third of the ceiling height — 90 cm at 2.7 m — washing the wall evenly top to bottom. The wall stops being a boundary and becomes the light source.
- Vertical illuminance
- Light landing on walls and faces rather than on the floor. This is what “it feels bright in here” actually measures — not lux underfoot.
- Cave effect
- What you get when all the light goes down: bright pools on the floor, dark walls, a room that feels smaller and lower than it is. Nine homes in ten.
- Grazing light
- The same idea at 10–30 cm from the surface. The beam runs almost along the wall and every bump casts its own shadow — stone, timber, slats, render finally read.
- Scallops
- Half-circles with the top cut off, on a wall lit from 20–40 cm away. The surest sign of a ceiling plan drawn by eye rather than calculated.
- Beam angle
- How tight the cone is — the one specification that cannot be corrected after installation. At 2.7 m, 24° gives a spot just over a metre, 60° over three.
- Layers
- Five separate jobs: ambient, task, accent, decorative, and the night orientation layer. A normal renovation does two of the five.
- Scene
- A saved state of the whole room — which groups are on, at what level, at what colour temperature. One key instead of ten.
- Ra and R9
- How honestly a fitting shows colour. R9 is the red end — food, timber, your own skin — and it is the number cut first to hit a price.
- Dim-to-warm
- Light that gets warmer as it dims, the way a candle does. Without it a dimmed room goes grey rather than intimate.
- Dimming depth
- How far a fitting dims smoothly before it cuts out. Between 10% and 1% is the difference between “low” and “evening” — and the whole evening lives there.
- Addressable control
- Every fitting is its own object and can be moved to another scene in software. The opposite: a whole line switching together like a string of bulbs.
Five questions for whoever quotes your lighting.
Not rhetorical, and not aimed at anyone in particular. Ask them of us and of everyone else you speak to — the answers tell you within ten minutes whether you are buying a designed scheme or a wired one.
How many lighting circuits per room, and what is on each?
A circuit list is the design. If the answer is a fitting count rather than a circuit list, no one has decided what dims separately from what — and that cannot be added after first fix.
We give you a circuit schedule per room before anybody orders material.
Who programs the scenes, and when?
“At the end” means guessed from a drawing. Scenes depend on where the furniture actually landed and how the family actually uses the room.
Our own engineer, in the house, with you, on handover day — plus one tuning visit inside the first year.
What is the lead time if a keypad breaks in year three?
On a resold catalogue this is an import, and the honest answer is measured in months. It is also the question nobody asks until it happens.
Next working day inside Poland. We hold stock for ten years because we make the parts — and the replacement is matched to your batch by number, not by looking similar.
Is the price fixed, and what is excluded?
A range means the scope is not defined. An exclusion list is the part that decides whether the number holds — and most quotes do not have one in writing.
Exact figures for standard kits, and the exclusion list is a full band on our pricing page rather than a footnote.
Does the house still work if your company disappears?
Cloud-dependent systems become plastic when a server is switched off, and that has happened to more than one brand in this market.
KNX runs locally. Every switch keeps switching with no internet and no us.
Four tests you can run with a phone in one minute.
Bring them to us and to everyone else you talk to. We would rather you knew how to check than took our word for it.
Flicker
Point your phone camera at the lit fitting. Bands or a shimmer on screen means the driver pulses. That light tires you by evening even though your eye cannot see it.
Colour rendering
Put a piece of warm timber, a slice of tomato and your own hand under it. At Ra 80 the timber goes dusty grey, the tomato brown, skin looks unwell.
Glare
Sit on the sofa and look straight ahead, as you normally would. If you can see the source itself, the fitting is lighting you rather than the room.
Noise
Dim to 20% and stand in silence. A hum or a whine means a cheap driver — and the evening scene lives at exactly that level.
Light is the only part of a renovation that cannot be redone afterwards.
Wallpaper gets replaced. Furniture gets replaced. Tiling, painfully, gets replaced. Lighting lives inside a closed ceiling and buried conduit.
Before first fix
Everything: circuit count, control type, coves, pockets, shadow gaps
The cost of the designCeiling framed, not closed
Position and number of fittings
Days of work and some temperAfter finishes
Essentially nothing
Reopening the ceiling and wallsWe are not saying this to hurry you. It is simply the one part of a build where “we will sort it later” does not work physically.
Look it up.
The numbers, the protocols and the specification, in one place at the foot of the page — for the architect or the electrician rather than the homeowner.
D = 2 × d × tan(α/2). This is why twelve identical downlights give you either gaps between pools or a flat wash with no accent at all.
- Ceiling
- Setback (h/3) · Max spacing (1.3a)
- 2.5 m
- 0.83 m · 1.08 m
- 2.7 m
- 0.90 m · 1.17 m
- 3.0 m
- 1.00 m · 1.30 m
- 3.5 m
- 1.17 m · 1.52 m
A fitting 20–40 cm from a wall draws a half-circle with its top cut off. Those scallops are the surest sign of a ceiling plan drawn by eye. Either 0.1–0.3 m, or a third of the height.
All functions
Send us the ceiling plan.
Forty minutes, free, no obligation. You will get the fitting count we would use, where the light falls short, and a straight answer about whether you need us at all.
- 01You send the planA PDF, a photo of the drawing, or nothing at all — we can start from a room count.
- 02We read it and call onceForty minutes. You get the count of fittings, the count of keys and where the board goes.
- 03You keep the drawingYours whether you buy from us or not. That is what makes it worth your hour.
