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 …
Customer Project 7 – Illuminated name on yacht transom Read More »
These two star ceiling panels in the showroom of AV Acoustics in Cannock are simply a variation on the basic prefabricated star panel as shown in Project 2. This Home Cinema and Home Automation company made the panels itself, using fibre and lightsources supplied by Starscape. However, instead of simply using an mdf panel, the …
Our customer Ms F writes: “At last we are able to let you know how we got on with our fibre optic lighting and send you some pictures. Whilst we received our star ceiling kit last December, it was a couple of months before we got it installed, then a further few months to get …
One of Starscape’s Custom Star Kits was the starting point for an interesting Spa Room lighting project carried out by T.I. of Altringham, ably assisted by his wife. The layout of the room presented some challenges, but this couple rose to the occasion and successfully completed an impressive job, as they describe here: The fibres …
In most cases customers installing star ceilings in bedrooms are able to access the attic above, so the lightsource goes in the attic and holes for the fibres are drilled in the plasterboard. There are cases, however, where the structure of the building makes this impossible and a different approach to installation has to be …
Details of a very impressive project were sent to us by A.M. of Cambridgeshire who, in the days before we offered bespoke “Custom” kits, used two of our “Intermediate” lighting kits to create a very attractive garden path lighting effect. That standard Intermediate Star Kit was offered with a 3 metre fibre optic harness, but …
Starscape’s Janet Dunn took the opportunity to install colour changing RGB LEDs into coving around the living room, hall ,bedroom and bathroom. To conceal the LEDs Janet suggested using white plastic channel to house the LED tape. Components necessary for this particular installation. Plaster or Polystyrene coving, plastic channel, RGB tape, controller and power supply. …
Customer Project 84 – Concealed LED tape colour changing coving lighting. Read More »
