Lighting design
Bespoke layouts drawn zone by zone — ambient, task and feature light balanced to the way each room is used.
Bespoke lighting schemes for homes, offices, retail and institutions — considered space by space, matched to your materials and your architecture, and managed all the way to the final switch-on.
Good lighting is felt before it is noticed — it shapes how a room breathes.
CIA Concepts is a lighting design consultancy led by Mercia Wolfaard. We work hands-on with homeowners, architects, builders and institutions — including schools and hospitals — to design lighting that suits the space it lives in.
Rather than sending you to a showroom to choose your own fittings, we assess your home's colour scheme, materials and architectural style, then design a scheme to match. We work directly with your electricians and installers, and quality-check every fitting before it reaches site.
Four disciplines, one continuous process — so nothing falls between the design on paper and the light in the room.
Bespoke layouts drawn zone by zone — ambient, task and feature light balanced to the way each room is used.
Fittings chosen to sit with your colours, materials and style — so the light feels part of the architecture, not added on.
We source and supply the specified fittings directly, and inspect each one for quality before it goes anywhere near your site.
We coordinate with your electricians through installation and snag the result — so the finished home matches the plan exactly.
Mercia assesses your home in person — the light it already has, the finishes, the way you live in it — and designs from there. You are never left to choose fittings alone.
Every fitting is selected to complement your colour scheme, materials and architectural style. The scheme belongs to your home, not to a catalogue.
We work directly with your electricians and installers, quality-check fittings before they arrive, and stay involved until the last detail is snag-free.
Send us your drawings and ideas. We learn the home, the finishes and how each space will be used.
You receive a detailed proposal — zone by zone, with full fitting specifications.
Refine together, approve the scheme, and we order and supply the fittings directly.
Fittings are quality-checked, delivered, and installed alongside your electricians.
We walk the finished home, resolve any snags, and see the project through to a clean finish.
Residential · Double-volume home
A layered scheme built around the home's architecture — feature pendants that hold the double volume, warmth in the living spaces and quiet, considered light where it is needed most.
We plan the light in your space room by room — balancing ambient, task and feature lighting — then choose fittings that suit your colours, materials and architecture. You get a detailed, zone-by-zone scheme rather than a guess made at a showroom counter.
No. We design lighting for homes, offices, retail spaces and institutions such as schools and hospitals. The same considered, end-to-end approach applies whether it's a private residence or a building used by hundreds.
Both. We source and supply the specified fittings directly and inspect each one for quality before it reaches your site — so the fitting on your ceiling is exactly the one that was designed in.
We're based in George, Western Cape and take on projects across South Africa. Our online shop delivers nationwide.
Share your plans and a short note about the project. We'll come back to you to talk through the next steps and put together a considered proposal, zone by zone.
Share your plans and we'll take it from there — a considered proposal, the right fittings, and a finish managed to the last detail.