Guides
Guides for commercial rooms
Longer pieces for when a room judgement needs more space: retail, restaurants and galleries, each written from the room outward.
Retail Track Lighting Without the Glare Field
A judgement essay on retail track lighting: how to make merchandise the brightest decision in the room without turning the sales floor into a field of glare.
Restaurant Track Lighting: Warm Scenes That Still Sell the Food
How to plan restaurant track lighting that feels warm and intimate while keeping plates readable, faces comfortable and bar and circulation zones working.
Gallery Lighting: Reading CRI, Beam and Distance Before You Buy
A guide to gallery lighting that treats CRI, beam and throw distance as reading tools, and walks through a track fixture spec sheet field by field.