John Dunn

Rather than installing the fibre optic stars in the ceiling, our customer Waqar Y wanted to put them in the canopy of his four-poster bed. He decided to put the light source on the edge of the canopy frame, requiring fibres of up to 3 metres to achieve the desired effect. Although the area of […]

Here is an example of a star ceiling project in which the optical fibres are illuminated by three different light sources. As a general rule, a single halogen light source will suffice, but there are times when using multiple light sources is worth considering. Starscape was approached by Matthew Wright, pastor of Alsager Community Church

We’re always warning customers that sideglow lighting effects can easily be eclipsed by other bright lights, particularly indoors. However, they really come into their own outside at night, as this photo from professional costume designers and manufacturers Vortex Creates demonstrates. The “snowflake” costumes were commissioned for a winter festival in Stoke-on-Trent, and Vortex Creates approached

Here at Starscape we offer customers a personal service, making up fibre optic kits to suit their specific requirements. In the area of decking lighting this is particularly important since decking and paving projects vary so much that standard, off-the-shelf kits will rarely offer a value-for-money solution. This nice project by Hamish and Janette M

This is a very nicely executed star ceiling in a loft conversion, which demonstrates the prefabricated panel approach to making a star ceiling. Our customers Tim and Penny were converting a loft to create a new attic room and decided that a star ceiling would add a nice touch. Since the plasterboard ceiling is fixed

This is a project by a third year fine arts student, Jenny Salter, who came to Starscape looking for technical support and components. After discussing the project with her, we were able to offer a student discount on the halogen light sources that she needed. We’ll let her explain the project in her own words:

This is a project which is simplicity itself, yet nevertheless very effect. London-based kitchen and bathroom specialists Classique & Co came to Starscape with the intention of adding some fibre optic lighting to a bathroom project in Hampstead and the result is to be seen in this photo. The fibres were threaded through holes drilled in the

It’s fitting that we should reach No. 50 in our series of Customer Projects with an extremely impressive installation which features something in the region of 3,000 fibre optic stars. The job sounded interesting from the first telephone call that we had from our customer Fernando M in Gibraltar. The plan was to redecorate a

This is a project which shows just how effectively fibre optic lighting can be incorporated in tiled walls. It’s not a complicated task, but it does require planning and attention to detail, and our customer Christine A has done a really excellent job. There is just a single halogen light source being used here. The

One of the most useful characteristics of fibre optic lighting is the ability to create many individual points of light from a single light source, and this is of particular value in signage. We’ve all seen neon signs which are spoilt by a missing letter, the result of a failed tube or other electrical component.