Illuminate Your Vision with Expert Lighting Design for Luxury Residences
Wildly Illuminating is an independent lighting studio, specializing in creating bespoke lighting solutions for top-tier residential projects. From concept to commissioning, our expert team closely collaborates with interior designers, architects and clients alike, to bring your design vision to life with the perfect lighting. With international product knowledge and an extensive understanding of lighting applications, lighting products and technical installation, we ensure that every space is both functional and beautiful.
We are the lighting experts
As lighting designers we are the experts, thus designing and specifying lighting to bring to life the architect’s and interior designer’s visions for the project. Through specification and supply, we ensure that the resulting lighting is exactly as per the intended design. So too, we assist the electrical contractors and control specialists, by providing detailed installation details and electrical information to ensure seamless cabling and integration. The result, a user friendly lighting design which creates inviting, luxurious spaces perfectly suited to you.
Our services
Full Service Lighting Design
The full service lighting design package, sees Wildly Illuminating involved from concept through to completion. To ensure the best outcome, we commence with the lighting concept, followed by a full documentation set, comprehensive lighting supply, on site management and finally lighting control commissioning.
Design Consultations for Industry Professionals
Our Lighting consultations are for designers needing assistance with project details like cabling or ceiling challenges. These 2-hour meetings can be held at our studio, on-site, or at your location, providing the necessary information to incorporate into your documentation set.
Why Choose us?
Unmatched Expertise in High-End Residential Lighting Studio
What sets us apart is our deep understanding of luxury residential lighting applications, combined with a keen eye for design. Whether you're working on a small-scale renovation or a sprawling mansion, we provide lighting solutions that are functional, sophisticated, and tailored to the unique needs of each space.
Global Product Knowledge: We offer access to the latest lighting products from around the world, ensuring your designs are always cutting-edge.
Collaborative Approach: We understand the importance of teamwork in a successful project. Our process is designed to complement your work and align with your goals.
Attention to Detail: From the first sketch to the final installation, we focus on every detail to create an impeccable lighting experience.
About Wildly
Wildly Illuminating is an established boutique lighting studio located on Sydney’s lower north shore. Specialising in bespoke lighting for designers and discerning clients with high-end residences, each design celebrates architectural features and decorative finishes while meeting functional lighting needs. Serving the Northern Beaches, Sydney, Southern Highlands, and South Coast, Wildly Illuminating offers independent architectural and decorative lighting design from concept through to commissioning. With a passion for exceptional design and exceeding client expectations, our studio has become highly sought after for a wide range of design aesthetics and genres. Read more
Our latest project
A fantastic vision which started as guest accommodation, in a barn-like structure in a beautiful rural setting. The detailed timberwork became a feature to highlight and incorporate lighting within. Indirect light recessed in the beams, brings the timbered ceiling to life. In ground lights are placed to graze the stonework and highlight the timber columns. Decorative lighting softens the interior aesthetic and adds to the layered lighting scenes. This project surpassed even the client’s expectations, so much so that they moved out of their house and into the barn!
“Pictures don’t do it justice (the lighting), it looks incredible!”
Nick G. Narrawallee Project
“The lighting is extraordinary and really brings everything to life.”
Charlotte I. Sutton Forest Project
‘The client said you are the only consultant that followed through with everything they requested.”
Builder James P. Camperdown Project
Frequent asked questions
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While an interior designer considers the overall composition of a space -materials, furnishings, colour palettes, and form - a lighting designer focuses purely on how light interacts with these elements to elevate the experience.
Lighting design is both technical and artistic. It requires a deep understanding of beam angles, glare control, colour temperature, dimming protocols, and how different fittings perform in real-world conditions. We specialise in weaving these technicalities into the design narrative - enhancing textures, shaping volume, and creating atmosphere through precision lighting.
Rather than treating lighting as an afterthought, we ensure it is integrated seamlessly from the start. Where the interior designer sets the stage, we sculpt the light that brings it to life.
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An architect shapes the structure - the bones of the space. A lighting designer sculpts the atmosphere within it.
While architects focus on form, function, and spatial flow, lighting designers ensure that every surface, volume, and material is experienced at its best - day and night. We consider how light defines architectural features, supports daily life, and creates emotional resonance.
Our expertise lies in the science of illumination: beam angles, colour rendering, control systems, and the technical nuance of integrating fittings invisibly into architecture. We work alongside architects to ensure that lighting complements and enhances their vision, never competing with it.
In essence, where the architect builds the space, we reveal its beauty through light.
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Interior lighting typically falls into three categories - each serving a distinct purpose, yet working together to create a layered, balanced scheme:
1. Ambient Lighting The foundational layer. It provides overall illumination, setting the tone of a space. Think architectural lighting like downlights or concealed LED coves that wash walls or ceilings.
2. Task Lighting Precision lighting. This supports activities that require focus - cooking, reading, grooming. It includes well-placed pendants over benchtops, directional lights, or joinery-integrated fittings.
3. Accent Lighting The storyteller. Accent lighting draws the eye, highlights architectural details, artwork, or textures, and adds drama or softness where needed. It’s what gives a space depth and emotion.
A well-designed lighting plan considers all three, weaving them together to create spaces that are both functional and captivating.
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A Lighting Designer envisions and shapes how light interacts with a space - balancing aesthetics, function, and integration. Our work is architectural, spatial, and highly detailed, ensuring lighting enhances materials, mood, and movement within a home.
A Lighting Director, by contrast, typically operates in theatre, film, or live events. Their focus is on storytelling through light in performance - designing cues, controlling dynamic effects, and supporting visual narrative in real time.
While both roles require an artistic eye and technical fluency, a lighting designer for interiors works with static environments, permanent fixtures, and built architecture - bringing spaces to life with subtlety, permanence, and precision.
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Lighting design is a specialised discipline that blends technical knowledge with creative vision. While there’s no single path, professional lighting designers typically hold qualifications in lighting design, architecture, interior design, or related fields - with additional training focused on the science of light, human perception, and control technologies.
At Wildly Illuminating, our expertise is backed by formal studies in lighting design, alongside years of hands-on experience across construction, interior design, landscaping and product knowledge. This unique foundation allows us to bridge the gap between design intent and technical execution - something no short course alone can teach.
True expertise comes not just from credentials, but from understanding how to craft light that feels invisible yet transformative.
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In contemporary design, LED (Light Emitting Diode) lighting is by far the most efficient and sustainable option. It consumes significantly less energy than traditional halogen or incandescent sources, produces minimal heat, and offers an impressive lifespan - often exceeding 50,000 hours.
But efficiency is not just about energy use. At Wildly Illuminating, we consider optical efficiency too - how well a fixture delivers light where it’s needed without glare or waste. A poorly placed or mismatched fitting, no matter how energy-efficient, can still underperform.
The most efficient lighting is carefully selected, precisely positioned, and seamlessly controlled - serving the space beautifully while reducing environmental impact.
