THE ULTIMATE LIGHTING DESIGN BUNDLE
Light School + Design Guide Bundle
Tired of being told you have to have downlights everywhere?
Learn How to Light Your Home Properly - Once and for All.
Lighting is one of the most powerful tools in home design - but it’s also the most misunderstood and overlooked.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT
This bundle gives you a complete beginner’s guide to lighting:
1. A video that helps you understand what good lighting really is
2. A planning guide to help you design lighting that works for your home
If you’ve ever walked into a home and thought, “Why doesn’t it feel right?”
Or lived with a living room that looks beautiful by day but harsh and clinical at night...
If you’ve bought a home and the light simply doesn’t work the way you expected...
This is for you.
What This bundle solves
Many people think they just need the right pendant or lamp to solve the lighting in their home. But lighting design isn’t just about picking beautiful light fittings - it’s about knowing how to light the space to function AND look amazing.
With the Light School Video and Design Guide, you’ll have the tools to solve common issues like:
“The bathroom mirror makes me look terrible.”
✓ Learn about glare control and colour rendering so you see your real reflection - not a ghost.
“The Kitchen design is beautiful but it still feels flat.”
✓ Understand how light layers and direction affect mood and usability.
“I feel overwhelmed and uncomfortable in our living space at night.”
✓ Learn how to follow the natural rhythm of light for better wellbeing.
“We let them put in the standard grid of downlights and the lights is in all the wrong places.”
✓ Use the guide to plan light positioning before your electrician starts.
“I bought lights I loved online - but they’re a horrid blue colour.”
✓ Use the Luminaire Selection Checklist to decode technical terms and avoid poor fitting choices.
Light school (30-minute online seminar)
Learn how to see and understand light, hosted by lighting designer Adele Locke.
This video walks you through the first principles of light in real spaces - filmed inside MINT’s studio using live demonstrations. Adele presents in plain English and helps you connect what you’re learning to how light can make you feel.
You’ll learn:
Why lighting affects how your home feels - and what to do about it
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How glare, colour temperature and contrast can make or break comfort
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How to use layers of light for function, beauty and mood
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What to look for when shopping for lights (and what to avoid)
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Why “lighting the ceiling” is just as important as lighting the floor
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DESIGN GUIDE (10-page pdf guide)
After Light School opens your eyes, this guide helps you make practical decisions in your home - room by room.
It will give you clear steps to follow to:
Define what you want to see in each room
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Plan lighting that suits the way you live, and enhances how your rooms look
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Avoid over-lighting and the downlight grid
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Position light properly for things like grooming, reading, cooking or TV
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Coordinate fittings with materials, ceiling height, fans and air con
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Communicate what you want from your lighting clearly with your build team or design team
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LUMINAIRE SELECTION CHECKLIST
Stuck in the jargon? This guide gives you plain English explanations for:
✓ Beam angle (how wide or narrow the light spreads)
✓ CRI (how natural colours look under the light)
✓ Lumens vs watts (brightness vs energy use)
✓ UGR (how to avoid glare and discomfort)
✓ IP ratings (which lights are safe in wet areas)
✓ CCT (the difference between warm and cool light - and where to use them)
Stop the overwhelm and fact check the advice you’re given. You’ll be able to shop smarter and choose light fittings with confidence.
Real-Life Benefits
This bundle doesn’t just teach you about light - it changes how you approach your home.
✓ Design lighting that makes your home feel calm, cosy, or energised - on purpose
✓ Make smart decisions before your build or renovation starts
✓ Feel in control when selecting fittings or talking with trades
✓ Avoid a ceiling filled with holes
✓ Save money by avoiding poor choices and rework
✓ Get results you’re proud of - because you have confidence in what you’re doing
MEET THE LIGHTING DESIGNER
Created by Adele Locke
As the founder of MINT Lighting Design, Adele Locke has helped thousands of Australians understand how to see and shape light in their homes. With over 12 years of experience and membership in IESANZ and IALD, she brings both expertise and empathy to the lighting process.
This guide reflects her belief that great lighting design should be accessible to everyone.
TESTIMONIALS
“The bundle is coming in so handy already. If I hadn’t have stumbled across your instagram videos no doubt our renovation would have a ceiling of pancakes and some ignorantly placed big box store decorative lights. Now I know we’re going to end up with something far more special and intentional.”
“I’ve been able to cut 40 downlights out of my design. Now I know I’ll get light that will look and feel amazing.”
“It’s like a roadmap through your own home - but through a lighting designer’s eyes.”
“I found the design guide and light school to be helpful in directing me to think about how I use my home and what I want to see.”
“I purchased your light school online bundle and absolutely loved it. I’m excited to work more with lighting.”
GET LIGHTING RIGHT
SAVE $94 when you bundle
✓ Light School Online Seminar (value $169)
✓ Design Guide PDF with Luminaire Selection Checklist (value $275)
Instant access to both digital resources. Yours to keep, reuse, and revisit anytime.
Total value: $444
That’s a $94 saving!
Light school online FAQs
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The seminar is 30 minutes long.
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Yes, you'll have unlimited access to the Light School seminar therefore you're free to watch it at your own pace, take breaks or start again as many times as you'd like.
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Absolutely. In this seminar, Adele is introducing you to the basics of light and lighting design. She will give you the tools to understand light and how it relates to spaces. She will then demonstrate different ways to think about light which you can consider when creating the ideal lighting design for your home. This seminar is designed to help anyone interested in light and lighting design gain a little more understanding of this wonderfully complex and important subject.
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Maybe. It depends how much experience you have in design, and how complex your design goals are. The aim of Light School is to open your eyes to some of the fundamental elements that are key to understanding light and how to harness it in your own home. By following Adele's advice, you'll be armed with more knowledge about light and how it can be used in a home so you can make informed decisions about the light fittings you want to use in your home and the types of light effects you might want to create. This seminar will not teach you everything you need to know to design light, it will however introduce you to important aspects of light and lighting design and help you see light from an entirely new perspective.
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We've developed this seminar because we want as many people as possible to enjoy beautiful, functional lighting in their homes. To keep the access fee as low as possible, we unfortunately can't offer 1:1 support as part of the Light School seminar.
If you'd like to talk to our studio team about developing a custom lighting plan for your home, or provide support to evaluate your own design please reach out via our Contact form.
For clarifications on other aspects of the seminar, please reach out via email.
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The Light School seminar is a simple introduction to light and lighting design. The content is included within the Masterclass and Workshop seminars is more in depth and explores the subjects raised in the Light School seminar in far greater detail. Those events are designed for industry professionals.
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Access to Light School seminar is personal, meaning that only the person who purchased the seminar can access it and watch it. If you know someone who would find this Light School seminar helpful, please link them to this page so that they can find out more about the it and, if they're interested, purchase access.
Design Guide FAQs
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The guide comes in digital PDF format. Once you’ve clicked “Add to Cart” and gone through the checkout process, you’ll be able to download the guide. You can then save it on your computer and access it anytime.
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You’ll be able to read the guide on any device that supports PDF files. That includes desktop computers, laptops, tablets and smartphones.
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Yes, once you’ve purchased the guide, you may print it out for your own use.
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Access to this Design Guide is personal, meaning that only the person who purchased it can access it and watch it. If you know someone who would find this guide helpful, please link them to this page so that they can find out more about the it and, if they're interested, purchase access.
Please Note
The content in this document is owned by MINT Lighting Design and your purchase of this document does not give you the right to use/redistribute/re-make or in any other way use this content as your own, or for your business or for any other commercial or non commercial purpose. If you are an educator and want to use this document for your students, reach out to MINT Lighting Design directly to arrange the permissions needed.
MINT Lighting Design is not legally responsible if this resource doesn’t give you the results it’s given other people. This educational resource is a guide to assist you in thinking differently about light and lighting design. It does not constitute professional advice, nor does it guarantee that a lighting design created using this guide will be effective or compliant.
MINT Lighting Design is a professional team of designers who are very experienced and excellent at what they do. Our clients enjoy amazing results from working with our team. We are delighted to share what we know in this, and other educational content for you to enjoy however we trust that you understand that our many decades of experience can not be captured in one document, and that any educational content we provide is to help you gain a greater understanding of light and lighting design – and will not make you a qualified professional in this field, nor will it guarantee that you can create your own lighting design. The results you achieve from using this guide will depend on a combination of factors we have no control over such as your experience in construction and design, the effort you put in and the advice you take from other parties.
Your implementation of the suggestions set out in this resource does not create a professional relationship between you and MINT Lighting Design. If you want feedback or advice about your specific project, our professional team would be delighted to help – please reach out to discuss which of our design services will help you achieve your lighting goals.