Fine-tuning the lighting in a Victorian villa ahead of completion

We're in the process of final commissioning and handover of a large Victorian villa. The house has been beautifully restored and renovated and extended with a large modern kitchen and a luxurious pool, spa and gym. The final commissiong has us adjusting light levels, fine-tuning lighting scenes on a circuit by circuit basis and making sure the light fittings are positioned exactly right to do the job they've been designed to do. This is typically the last stage of a process that might have been going on for a number of years. It completes the circle that started with our "concepts and costings" phase where the bare bones of the design are laid out.

As the project is completing, we're taking the opportunity to take photos. Our client has kindly allowed us a couple of days to photogpraph the house ahead of their moving in.

There is an unexpected side-benefit of doing the photoshoot during commissioning and fine-tuning. The camera is incredibly revealing; it shows details and inconsistencies that can be harder to spot with the naked eye. Have a look at the picture below. We took a test shot of the link between the house and the pool; it shows one of the miniature uplights needs adjusting to give the proper cone-shaped spill of light. Its's something we can fix quickly and it all helps make the scheme work as well as it possibly can,

We hope we'll be able to publish a full set of the photos as a case study soon. It's a stunning project and I don't want to show too many of the shots here yet but this gives an idea of the style and scale of the house.