Minimalist interiors can raise questions when it comes to lighting. The furniture and accessories have been honed down to the perfect level of sparse, so do you top off the refined scheme with a stand-out sputnik chandelier over the living room" How about a network of spotlights, or just put it all inside the walls" […]

Minimalist interiors can raise questions when it comes to lighting. The furniture and accessories have been honed down to the perfect level of sparse, so do you top off the refined scheme with a stand-out sputnik chandelier over the living room" How about a network of spotlights, or just put it all inside the walls" These two minimalist apartments, designed and visualised by Z Design, are great examples of how to make lighting a main feature, without it being a feature at all? Find rooms lit with recessed perimeter light strips, tucked around ceiling seams and baseboards, plus sleek installations of the latest single circuit track lighting systems with repositionable spotlights to cover all bases.
Flicking on the light switch in the first of our two minimalist apartments, each measuring just short of 90 square metres, we find a cool grey and wood tone living room that?s gently lit around the edges. Pools of light fall upon a modern sofa in the centre of the room, which is reached by the multi-directional spotlights of a black single circuit track, and a number of LED mini ceiling fixtures.

The soft lighting gives the grey living ...