Munro installs lighting in party-style pool house

A Bruce Munro product story

Edited by the Interiorstalk editorial team Jul 28, 2010

Bruce Munro has installed a chandelier and other lighting designs in a new-build pool house in a village in south Somerset.

The brief was to create a party house for the owners and their two children - both aged under 10.

The Random Drop chandelier from Bruce Munro has been adapted to fit this large space

Munro and Anna Craddock, joint project leaders, began by lighting the glitter balls with clusters of three colour-changing spotlights.

Then, for a feature light, they adapted Munro's Random Drop chandelier to fit the large space.

For the French windows, tear-drop diffusers were used instead of clear glass balls.

The teardrops are said to look like water droplets, in keeping with the water theme.

This fibre-optic piece features 350 clear diffusers at the ends of fibres that measure 1m at their longest.

A special ceiling plinth measuring 2.6 x 1.2m supports the weight.

The white light travelling down the fibres and refracting from the drops is projected from one 100W halogen light bulb and the projector is set in a remote location.

The client wanted to keep it simple and avoid lighting effects that would make the pool house look like a hotel.

As a result, Craddock installed white function lighting elsewhere in the living space, kitchen and changing room.

In the garden, 11 heat-treated copper wall sconces were installed around the facade of the building and along an old kitchen garden wall to the side.

A total of seven copper spotlights were installed - one above each doorway on the pool side of the building, one on the door to the kitchen garden, one on the front door and one on the pump room door.

Four small mushroom-shaped copper path lights were then set along the perimeter of the small lawn.

Finally, a Moonlighter was installed; this is intended to give an effect that looks like the Moon shining through branches and casting shadows onto the lawn, according to Craddock.

The Moonlighter has a tree-mounting strap and anti-glare cowl to keep the light angled downwards and uses a 130W lamp to give the appearance of bright moonlight.