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Seven lighting mistakes to catch before your electrical plan is signed off.

For anyone building or renovating, with a builder or as an owner builder. Read it with your plan in front of you.

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Cover of the free guide, Seven lighting mistakes to catch before your electrical plan is signed off
A NEXTCONTRAST guide — 12 pages, A4
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Seven mistakes we see on plans every week.

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A check for each one, in a few minutes with your plan.

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One page to print and take to your builder.

Page 3 of the guide: mistake 01, putting downlights in a grid
Mistake 01 — Page 3
Page 10 of the guide: the seven-point check
The seven-point check — Page 10

The full guide — AUD $49

The Home Lighting Planner.

The numbers behind every decision, room-by-room checklists, a build timeline, how to handle your electrical appointment, and the templates to brief your builder. If you later book a Contrast Advisory session, the $49 comes off.

  1. 01Before you start
  2. 02Understanding light
  3. 03The technical decisions
  4. 04Room by room
  5. 05The build
  6. 06Take it to the meeting
  7. 07Templates: lighting brief, fixture and switching schedules, plan symbols

Instant download. 39 pages, A4 PDF with fillable worksheets and a print pack. Australian dollars, GST included. Not useful to you? Tell us within 14 days for a refund.

Cover of The Home Lighting Planner
Colour temperature page
Bedrooms page
Reading your electrical plan page
The Home Lighting Planner — 39 pages, A4

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Amie Schulenburg

NEXTCONTRAST is an independent lighting design studio in Melbourne, founded by Amie Schulenburg. We design lighting for homes, hotels and restaurants, and we don’t sell light fixtures.

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