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Wilmette Sanctuary Home – Lighting

Ensuring that the glass pavilion of the modern sanctuary home in Wilmette, IL is as bright – but also as private – as possible all day long with a flood of daylight and strategic interior lighting. Take a tour with  Amy Berka, SSDB Lead Architect. See the project description and stunning library of photos.

Enjoy the whole video series of this modern new construction home in Wilmette!

Video transcript:

Something that was important to us is, you know, recognizing that we’re essentially building a glass pavilion that’s visible from the street. We wanted to make sure that there was still this idea of privacy. With the help of our interior designer, Julie Morton, we have beautiful sheers on the windows that are sort of public facing.

Not on the doors, but just on the windows. So, to make sure that this was as bright as possible all day long, because everyone knows I love that, south facing, we have a beautiful five-window dormer. Not only is it bringing light in, when you see how the building looks from the front, architecturally, it just centers and grounds this entire building, doing double duty by letting light in all day long.

How do you mount a light fixture when you have a ceiling that has a pitch to it? So a lot of times we do a decorative beam that would go across, and that would make a lot of sense if we had a gable end roof here. But we don’t. We have a hip roof, parking back to the house next door.

But we didn’t want to make this big square, chunky block, where this canopy for the light fixture needed to be mounted. And we ended up having our steel manufacturer make us a round cylinder that we could drop a junction box into, and then fasten the light fixture. So when you look up at the light fixture right now, the top of the canopy is brass. The piece that we added onto it is black. But because the fixture is black and brass, it looks like one continuous piece. You’d never know that it was not part of the original fixture, and it solves the problem of how to hang a light fixture on a slope ceiling.