Send me a photo of your room. I’ll send back the plan.

How it works

Three steps, and one of them is mine.

1. 01

   You send two or three photos of the room with the lights on, and one line about what it is for — sleeping, working, both.

2. 02

   I send back a plan within 48 hours: where each light goes, what colour temperature, what height, and the exact shopping list with prices — usually three items, usually under $80 total.

3. 03

   You ask me anything for two weeks after. If the plan does not work in your room, you pay nothing. I would rather refund you than argue.

Add to your plan

Three things people ask for after, that cost less asked for now.

Tick what you want. It carries into the email — nothing is charged until the plan is in your hands and you are happy with it.

• A second room The room you were going to ask about next — living room, kitchen, hallway. Same 48 hours, same plan, $30 less than sending it on its own. +$45
• Shop the plan for me You give me a ceiling — $60, $120, whatever it is. I come back with the exact listings, sizes and quantities, in stock and shipping to you, in one list you buy in a single sitting. No guessing which of nine warm bulbs is the right one. +$25
• The rental-safe version Every piece of the plan re-specced for zero drilling, zero rewiring and nothing your landlord can charge you for on the way out. Clamp, lean, hook, plug. +$15

Your email

Which room Bedroom Living room Home office Studio / one room apartment Something else

What you can’t change

Optional, but it is the part that makes the plan fit your room.

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Nothing is charged now. I reply with questions or the plan, and you pay by e-Transfer once it is in your hands.

What you actually get

Not advice. A shopping list for your exact room.

Every plan is built around what you can’t change — the rental ceiling fixture, the single outlet, the bad window. Three light sources, all below eye level, all warm. That part never changes. Where they go, in your room, is the work.

Who writes this

One person, one obsession, no test lab.

Big Light Off is written by Vincent, from Montreal. I am not a lighting designer and I do not run a testing lab. What I know is colour temperature, placement, and layering — which is physics and habit, not taste, and it is the part that actually changes a room.

A service I am paid for keeps me honest in a way an affiliate commission never will. That is the whole reason this page exists.

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