Mood Lighting System

Home Cinema Lighting

From your Cinema Room to the whole house, we can provide that special mood lighting system ingredient: control

Rather than a simple switch or dimmer for each lighting circuit, mood lighting systems use a single button to select the mood with pre-set dim levels on a range of lights. After all, when you set the lights in a room, it is usually a particular mood or scene that you are wanting rather than controlling individual lights.

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We have a range of lighting systems to call on depending on cost and wiring schemes etc. These can be controlled via conventional wall plates, remote control, or connected to a control system for control via a remote or iPad etc. These systems are able to include sophisticated timed sequences, and can record a week or two of activity for your lighting system to replay whilst your are on holiday to make it appear that someone is in.

Rako Controls mood lighting systems

Rako Controls have a variety of mood lighting system components that can work with each other or independently. One of the things that we like best, is that it is possible to retro-fit Rako Controls dimming packs into existing conventional house wiring, without having to re-wire the lighting circuits. They offer a robust wireless link between dimming modules and switch positions, which makes it easy to add circuits and switches as required.

Lighting system switch plates come in a variety of surface or flush mounting panels, with finishes to match most standard electrical wall plates.

The switch plates fit into standard UK wall boxes, however with the radio interface and a battery powered switch (with a typical 5-year life), they can be mounted wherever you choose.

Lighting system dimmer modules come in leading and trailing edge varieties, as well as dedicated switching, and LED drivers, to cover most lighting loads up to 1200W per circuit.

The smaller lighting dimmer packs are small enough to fit through a standard down-light fitting, so can be easily concealed in the ceiling without having to cut holes or extend wiring.

Rako also have interfaces for curtains and blinds, and remote control including links to 3rd party controllers, for integration into whole house control systems, or control via their App on an iPad or iPhone, or Android Phone. This includes a lighting system DMX interface which allows integration with our Star Ceiling light sources (see bottom of page).

 

LED strip – lighting systems

LED strips have become an easy to use feature lighting system that can be integrated into any of our lighting systems. These thin easy-to-conceal strips are available in multi-colour (RGB or RGBW) or single colour strips at a variety of powers, and numbers of LEDs per metre.

 

 Star ceilings

We supply and install star ceilings as part of our complete range of solutions. These are fibre-optic based ceiling panels from our friends at Starscape with ~100 “stars” per square metre. The Sources for these vary, but one of our favourites is an LED based multi-colour source with “twinkle” effect. The LED light source is DMX controllable allowing us to integrate it with the other lights in a mood lighting system, change the colour and intensity, and control the twinkle effect, with spectacular results.

The ceiling panels are covered with a black material finish, making the black, very black indeed. This coupled with the tiny fibre optic light points produces a very realistic star effect.

With the star source turned down low and the “twinkle” wheel on, this is a very realistic starfield. – When it comes to star ceilings, less is often more. If you turn up the brightness, it can illuminate the room, and the ceiling becomes overbearing. We think it looks best when a more subtle light is shown, so the stars sit in the background adding to the ambience rather than taking centre stage.

See our dedicated Star ceilings page for more examples of Star Ceilings we have put up, together with an outline of how they are created.

 

 

 

 

This star ceiling is linked to the room lighting system, with presets to go with the lighting scenes. Manual control can also be implemented to select star colours, intensity, and twinkle on/off and speed.

The ceiling is a dramatic finish to this superb cinema room – read more about this project in our case studies