What to Light Questionnaire

What to Light Questionnaire

This questionnaire will help you to focus on many of the specifics to keep in mind when detailing your overall lighting plan.

• What are your client's lighting needs and requests?
• What are the focal points in the landscape (object, plant, pool of water, etc.)?
• What features would you like to play up?
• What features would you like to play down?
• What nighttime activities require lighting (entertaining guests, sports, etc.)?
• Safety: Which areas are dangerous at night?  Look at steps, changes in grades, paths, bodies of water, etc.
• Security: Are there dark areas near entrance ways, such as dark shadows near garages and doors that need special attention?
• Where are the outside weather-proof receptacles and interior switches located?
• How can we complement and not compete with the architecture?
• What mood do you want your lighting to achieve?
• What views from inside the home can be enhanced? (Primary sitting areas, dining areas, kitchen, and bathroom windows)

Information source: Philips Hadco