Light is the last
material of the façade.
Exterior lighting for villas, estates and hospitality across Cyprus — designed on site, after sunset, to show a building’s stone, water and shadow rather than flood it.
First the sky
goes out.
Forty minutes after sunset the ambient light is gone, and everything that was designed for daylight goes with it — stone flattens, water turns black, the garden disappears.
Then the house
appears.
Not lit — composed. Windows, façade, terrace, water: each on its own circuit, each coming up in the order you want the building to be read.
2700 K · CRI 97 · IP66 / IP68 · CASAMBI / DALI-2
19:42·Sunset
A façade is designed twice. Once by the architect, once by the night.
Daylight is given to you. The other twelve hours are a design decision — and on Cyprus they are the hours when the house is actually seen: from the coast road, from the neighbour’s terrace, from your own car as you come up the drive.
We work only in warm white, from a small family of fixtures, mounted where the eye never finds them. Nine tenths of the work is deciding what stays dark — a lit house with no shadow left in it reads as a petrol station, whatever it cost.
How we work- 140+ objects lit
- 11 years on the island
- 2700 K our default white
- 0 floodlights used
- 01 Villa Amathus Limassol Façade grazing · pool · landscape 2025 →
- 02 House on the Rock Peyia, Paphos Silhouette · uplighting 2025 →
- 03 Anassa Terraces Latchi Hospitality · terraces · water 2024 →
- 04 Olive Court Kolossi Landscape · tree uplighting 2024 →
- 05 Cape Residence Protaras Façade wash · cove · steps 2023 →
- 06 Old Town House Nicosia Restoration lighting 2023 →
Portfolio in full, with plans and photometrics, on request — most of our work is behind gates.
Request the full portfolioRule of the studio
“Nine tenths of lighting a house is deciding what stays dark.”
- 01
Façade grazing
A narrow beam set 150 mm off the wall. The stone stops being a surface and becomes a texture.
- 02
Wall wash
Even, shadowless light for plaster and rendered volumes — brightness held below the neighbours’ windows.
- 03
Silhouette & shadow
We light what is behind the object, not the object. The house reads as a shape against the dark.
- 04
Tree uplighting
Olive, cypress, carob. Warm 2200 K from the root, aimed to miss the bedroom windows.
- 05
Water & pool
IP68 fittings, low glare, colour temperature matched to the coping stone — never the blue of a hotel gym.
- 06
Thresholds & steps
Recessed, glare-free, mounted so that you see the step and never the source.
- 07
Control & scenes
Casambi or DALI-2, astronomical clock, dusk-to-dawn dimming. Three scenes, one button.
Detail
A luminaire you can see is a luminaire in the wrong place.
Everything is specified for the coast: 316L stainless and anodised aluminium, IP66 and IP68, gaskets that survive salt air and irrigation water, and modules that a person can replace in 2035 without re-cutting your terrace.
- 01
Night survey
We come at dusk with lamps in the boot, and walk the plot with you — from the gate, from the road, from the terrace.
- 02
Light study
A mock-up on your actual wall. Photographs at three intensities and two colour temperatures, so nothing is decided on a rendering.
- 03
Documentation
Photometric layout, circuits, control addresses, IP-rated details and a fixture schedule your builder can price.
- 04
Commissioning
Aiming is done at night, by hand. Scenes are tuned on site, and we come back after the first season to re-aim what the garden has grown over.
Let’s walk your site after sunset.
The first visit costs nothing and takes about an hour. We bring a case of fixtures, put light on your actual wall, and photograph it. You keep the photographs either way.
- Studio
- 28 Amathountos Ave.
4532 Limassol, Cyprus - Write
- studio@luma.cy
- Call · WhatsApp
- +357 99 000 000
- Showroom
- By appointment, from 19:00