every year in the UK we built hundreds of thousands of new homes and developers don't
really pay that much attention to the lighting that's your choice it's a very personal thing
when it comes to lighting but one of the things you're most likely to change when you move into
a new home moving into a new home is an ideal opportunity to think about smart lying tying it
in with some other Tech even security features or just you want color change and that's what we're
going to discover in this video when moving to Smart lighting most people think about bulbs or
lamps and it can be as easy as changing a lamp however you've still got to think about things
like Shades and you'd still have to buy a fixture if you're looking for something more decorative
but now the Philips Hue range has an immense range of fixtures and in this video we're going
to take a little look around the house to see where you can use them and hopefully give you
some lighting inspiration for your home when it comes to creating a dramatic entrance this is one
of my favorite products from the Philips Hue range this Centris Spotlight has a linear colour change panel
and three spotlights that are independently controlled so you can pick out some pictures
of possibly some other objects him out on the wall now when it comes to the living room it's
no wonder that developers only put one light in the middle because they have no idea how you're
going to use that space and where you're going to put various objects the customer here has
just bought an enormous television that's going to take up most of this wall but that gives us
lots of options when it comes to lighting but let's first deal with that big light the one
that is in the center that you'll probably want to remove I'd suggest you don't overdo it on the
color change there's plenty of options for that this end ray of light you can color tune between
warm and cool white bags of space in there when it comes to wiring and then supplement that with
freestanding lights so you've got flexibility in the space such as this little Iris product
here or my top pick that I really like is this what we're calling the Signe of Cigna as we've
seen on other other channels this is a little bit special because it's not just color change
it's it's white as it is at the moment here but actually the color change changes along the strip
or termed gradient so you have one color at the bottom and different colors at different points
of the strip so that creates a sort of a new way of looking at color change and I think that can
create some really dramatic effects now to go with that we've got enormous television we've
probably got some other features in the room some other Furniture top behind it some gradient lead
strip that has the same effect so you don't need to think of this as just fixed color change you
can have a variable colour change along the strips or good to tuck behind furniture or possibly even
put round the TV to backlight the TV and then couple that with the sync box that allows it to
reflect the colors to reflect what's happening on the TV screen everyone loves the convenience of a
light switch and all these different light source in a room you're still going to want to control
them from a central location otherwise you're not going to really have time to go around the room
and switch everything on now Philips have got absolutely loads of ways of controlling the Hue
system and we've made a separate video about that I will leave a link in the description one thing
that's not in that video is this new tap dial switch which we think is a great addition to the
range you can not only just control this room you can control other rooms in the house as well when
it comes to the kitchen the developer's been incredibly generous here just putting in a one
pendant light in the middle I think we're going to need to add some more if you really want to
create the most out of what is a dining kitchen space if you know where your table is going my
suggestion would always be a pendant above the table and in the Hue range you've got a number
of options my top pick is the nsys linear pendant that has two separate controllable elements to it
an upline elements that will wash the ceiling and a down light element that will obviously go under
the table now each of those individual elements can be controlled for either white light or color
change so you could have a nice color changing ceiling or particular shade that you want up
there and then have white light on the table if you don't want color change there are other
options in the range the Amaze pendant is a white tunable us Philips call it white Ambience so you
can go from warm to cool white and if you can't be can't be sure where your table is going to
go in the room and append wouldn't work for you because you're going to Clank your head into it
yeah you could go for this still as this still ceiling light which again is a white tunable
product or if you want to go back to color change we've got this sarumu panel light which again is
a great addition uh very slim with the ceiling and again you get all those color tunable and
white features these fixtures are incredibly easy to install just three wires to connect and
thankfully Philips have allowed a generous amount of wiring room now when it comes to wiring how
simple it really is depends on how the lighting circuit's been wired in the home and that can
go two ways so let's have a look how this one's been done just unscrew the cover on the pendant
and yeah this is a really easy job there's only three wires to change now if this has got you
open this up and it looks like a Rat's Nest there's probably enough room in the side of
the fixture to do it but you're gonna need an electrician to figure out what's going on with
the wiring speaking of electricians there's a few rooms we haven't looked at yet in this
video there's the bathroom there's the bedroom what if they're combined into a master bedroom
suite and you might want to do something really special run in some new cables we're going to
do that with an electrician who started this job this morning and you can watch that in this video
down like shaped hand right that's why I use a 76 no hole because I can get my hand done