This is the effect described in Project 4 – creating mood lighting through small lights spaced along the coving around a room. This was part of a major refurbishment of a bathroom, and was just one of three separate fibre optic lighting schemes illuminated by a single halogen light source. The basic methodology is simple …
This is a very impressive pantomime set, using around 7.5 km of optical fibre. To be honest, our chief input here was supplying components and some technical advice in the very early stages of discussion. The credit for the job is owed entirely to Set Designer Terry Parsons and the technical wizards at the Nottingham …
The initial enquiry about this project arrived more than a year before the final installation, and involved quite a lot of correspondence between us and our client, interior designer Sophie Bowman, but the final result has been worth it, with Sophie’s client reportedly delighted with the finished room. The project, in a house in London, …
This was a project that we followed with great interest, from our customer’s first enquiry, through subsequent discussions, some experimentation and on to the finished installation. This was the context: our customer Graham was adding a bathroom extension to his house and planned to incorporate an opaque “window” in the wall between the new bathroom …
This was a nicely implemented fibre optic star ceiling, using the prefabricated panel approach. In this case our customer opted to create an 8ft disk of mdf suspended from the ceiling, with space for the light source to sit on top of the disk, out of sight. Since he wanted a reasonably high density of …
This project involved the creation of quite a large decking area at the rear of an attractive family home in Sussex.After some discussion between our clients and us, it was decided that since there would be 176 fibre optic light points in total, the most cost-effective purchase would be fibre on the spool. This meant …
Britain’s leading specialist globe maker, Greaves and Thomas, has opened a café – the Orrery Café in Ryde on the Isle of Wight. The café, in restored premises of Bravinger’s Arcade is the first part of a project to establish Britain’s first globe museum. The décor of the café includes a suspended orrery and a …
This customer used a mixture of Starscape’s fibre optic deck lighting with some larger LED deck lights sourced elsewhere. The LEDs are the green and blue lights in the foreground. Most of our customers go for small lights across the deck, achieved through either bare fibre ends or our little end fittings, but we can …
In this project to install a star ceiling effect as part of a bathroom refurbishment our customer started with an Orion DIY star kit. “I fixed the fibres on the back of an mdf sheet (see Project 2 for details of this technique) and fixed battens to the ceiling to suspend it from, since I …
A fibre optic star kit has just two main components. A light source, and a harness of optical fibres, usually at various lengths and diameters. A fibre optic light source (sometimes called a light engine or projector) is essentially a box with a lamp of some sort in it – these days most commonly an …
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