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The Chalfonts, Bucks
New build — 3 floors, 6 bedrooms
Full power, lighting, fire protection & data
James Rudoni
Director, KG Electrical
The electrical design that came with this project hadn’t been thought through for how the house would actually be lived in. We sat down with the client and redesigned it from first principles — practical, unfussy, and built to last. Three floors, six bedrooms, multiple reception rooms, kitchen, utility, boot room, double garage, ensuites, bathrooms throughout. A serious house that needed a serious installation underneath it.
The scope covered everything: all power and lighting circuits, sockets, towel rails, fire protection, and data infrastructure through every room. None of it is photogenic — you don’t photograph a consumer unit or a socket position — but it’s the foundation that everything else sits on. Get it wrong and the house never quite works. Get it right and nobody ever has to think about it again.
The client came to the project with strong ideas about the lighting he wanted, and we worked with him throughout — sometimes advising, sometimes suggesting alternatives, always making sure what he wanted could actually be achieved. Some fittings were his choice entirely. Others we worked through together. The result is a house where every room has its own lighting identity.
The living room anchors around a large double-ring circular pendant in brushed brass, scaled to the ceiling height. Brass rod wall lights carry a consistent material language through the hallways and bedrooms. In the dining room, oversized woven pendants on a linear bar bring warmth and texture — a completely different mood, and deliberately so. The kitchen has a dramatic cluster of amber glass pendants over the island that the client sourced himself; our job was making sure the installation did them justice.
The bathrooms got the same level of care — pendants positioned over freestanding baths, recessed niches illuminated inside the shower enclosures, nothing left as an afterthought.
The worktop that couldn’t be lit
The kitchen had already been fitted when Kyle first properly noticed the worktop — a translucent stone surface that caught the light beautifully. He mentioned it to the client, who explained that he’d originally wanted it lit from underneath, but the kitchen company had told him it couldn’t be done once the units were in. He’d accepted that and moved on.
Kyle disagreed. He pulled out the wine fridge, crawled into the gap behind the installed units, and ran LED strips positioned to wash light upward through the stone. Working in a finished kitchen with no access designed in, the result is a warm, even glow concentrated through the centre of the worktop — which, as it turns out, works even better than a fully uniform underlight would have. The constraint produced something more characterful than the original plan.
It’s a detail that photographs beautifully and impresses every visitor. The kitchen company said it couldn’t be done. It just needed someone willing to climb behind the units and find out.
The chandelier
The centrepiece of the house is a chandelier running the full height of the stairwell across three floors — 19 individual glass pendants, each hanging at a precisely different length to create a cascading installation that fills the void completely. It took a full day to build and install.
Every cable had to be cut and terminated to exactly the right length so each pendant would hang correctly — which meant the fitting went up, was checked, came down for adjustment, and went back up again. Several times. A scaffold tower was built inside the stairwell to work safely across all three levels throughout the process.
Nobody who walks into that stairwell will think about any of that. They’ll just see something that looks like it couldn’t have been any other way. That’s what a day’s careful work actually looks like.
Room by room — the feature pendants, the lit stone worktop, the illuminated bathroom niches and the triple-height stairwell chandelier.
What the client got is an electrical installation designed around how the house will actually be lived in — every circuit, every fitting, every detail considered from first principles. The parts you see are beautiful. The parts you don’t were built to be forgotten about entirely. Both took the same care.
This is also only half the story. The external lighting scheme at Oak Beams is a separate project — and a separate case study.
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