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Custom Residential Lighting for
Private Homes & Commercial Spaces

Karice fabricates custom residential lighting that stays true to the design intent โ€” built around the specific scale, materiality, and technical demands of each residence. We work with designers, architects, and homebuilders to make that happen.

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Project Highlights

A selection of our residential and multi-residential lighting projects showing how custom lighting performs across different scales and environments.

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What Matters in Custom Home and Multi-Residential Lighting

Private residences call for design integrity and finish precision at a level most commercial projects don’t. Fixtures sit close to finished surfaces where colour consistency, warm dimming performance, and canopy integration all need to be resolved.ย 

Multi-residential projects expand that scope: the same custom fixture needs to perform and look identical across repeated units, shared corridors, and multiple locations.

At Karice, we approach these projects as a residential lighting manufacturer โ€” working through buildability, mounting logic, and material decisions from the start.

Each of our residential projects is scoped with these conditions in mind:

  • fixture scale relative to ceiling height, room volume, and sightlines
  • dimming performance, colour quality, and glare control in close-range and lower-light conditions
  • coordination with millwork, mirrors, stone, cabinetry, and architectural detailing
  • mounting logic, canopy layout, structure, and j-box placement
  • finish quality and visual weight at close range
  • serviceability and maintenance access in shared-use environments
  • exterior exposure, ingress protection, and finish durability where applicable
  • repeatability, where custom lighting needs to stay consistent across multiple units or locations
Custom multi-arm bulb chandeliers with brass finish for Hollyburn Properties in Vancouver, BC, CA. Manufactured by Karice.

Applications Within the Space

Bespoke residential lighting is rarely resolved the same way twice. Each space carries its own requirements for fixture scale, material coordination, and performance. The applications below show how that difference plays out across different rooms and settings.

Lobbies and Arrival Spaces

Lobbies and shared arrival spaces carry the identity of the property while operating under demanding conditions. These fixtures need strong repeatability, easy service access, and clear installation logic.

Lobbies and Arrival Spaces
Lobbies and Arrival Spaces

Entry and Foyer Features

Entry fixtures establish the first read of the space. They sit in taller volumes, tighter sightlines, or more exposed architectural conditions. Proportion, suspension logic, and canopy placement all need to be resolved so the fixture feels intentional.

Entry and Foyer Features
Entry and Foyer Features

Kitchen Islands and Task-Oriented Zones

Kitchen lighting has to perform visually and practically. Fixture alignment with joinery, clean light distribution over work surfaces, and scale relative to the room all need to be resolved.

Kitchen Islands and Task-Oriented Zones

Powder Rooms and Vanity Zones

In close-view environments, junctions, material reflectance, light distribution, and finish consistency become much more visible. Thus, a compact pendant or wall-adjacent fixture has to feel precise, not approximate.

Powder Rooms and Vanity Zones
Powder Rooms and Vanity Zones

Feature Fixtures

Feature fixtures are less about a single room type and more about how they hold the overall composition of the interior. This is where sculptural form, geometry, finish, and illuminated presence need to work well together.

Feature Fixtures
Feature Fixtures

Bedrooms and Bedside Lighting

Private rooms usually need lower-profile fixtures and tighter control. Bedside pendants have to be unobtrusive in use, but they still require careful attention to drop height, switching, glare, and long-term serviceability.

Bedrooms and Bedside Lighting

Outdoor Residential Areas

Outdoor residential lighting fixtures carry a different set of manufacturing requirements. They need to maintain the design intent, but also have to account for exposure, mounting conditions, finish longevity, and maintenance realities.

Outdoor Residential Areas

Decorative & Architectural Lighting for Residential and Multi-Residential Spaces

The fixture types used in residential lighting vary with the architecture, the space, and what the design is trying to achieve. The following are some common decorative and residential architectural lighting fixtures.

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Chandelier

Bespoke chandeliers handcrafted for commercial, architectural, and decorative applications. From sculptural lobby centrepieces to commercial chandelier lighting systems, every fixture can be customized around your project's scale, structure, finish, and lighting performance.

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Linear

Bespoke linear lights handcrafted for commercial, architectural, and decorative applications. Designed for clean continuous runs and precise architectural integration, every fixture can be customized around your space, dimensions, mounting conditions, finish, lighting performance, and overall design intent.

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Pendant

Bespoke pendant lights handcrafted for commercial, architectural, and decorative applications. Unlike catalogue pendants with limited customization, every fixture can be customized to your concept, design, proportion, materiality, finish, and lighting performance specific to your project.

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How We Support Your Residential and Multi-Residential Lighting Project

At Karice, we support residential and multi-residential projects that need more than fixture selection. As a residential lighting company focused on custom fabrication, we help designers, architects, builders, and developers move reliably from concept to installation.

Architectural Lighting

Architectural lighting solutions that perform where precision matters. We design for integration, engineer for performance, and build fixtures to last in demanding spaces.

How We Deliver

Custom Lighting

Custom lighting solutions for architects and designers who expect more than standard products. Every fixture is bespoke - engineered and manufactured to align precisely with your exact specifications, design intent, and project requirements.

How We Deliver

Decorative Lighting

Decorative lighting solutions that don't ask you to choose between aesthetics and performance. Custom-manufactured for projects where both are the standard.

How We Deliver

Other Spaces We Illuminate

Every environment has different demands. We build custom lighting around the specific needs of each project – from commercial and residential interiors to hospitality spaces and beyond.

Custom oval linear ceiling lighting for Morgan Stanley in Boston, MA, USA. Manufactured by Karice.

Office

Custom office lighting for corporate and commercial environments where design intent, visual comfort, architectural integration, and buildability all need to come together.

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Large four-tier square chandelier for a private residence in Florida. Manufactured and installed by Karice.

Residential

Custom residential lighting that stays true to the design intent - built around the specific scale, materiality, and technical demands of each residence.

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Oversized globe chandelier lighting for Gordon Ramsay Steak in Richmond, BC, Canada. Manufactured by Karice Lighting.

Restaurant and Bar

Custom restaurant and bar lighting for hospitality environments where atmosphere, finish quality, and commercial performance all need to come together.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What matters most in common area lighting for multi-residential developments?

Consistency, durability, and serviceability matter most. Shared residential lighting also needs to coordinate cleanly with the architecture and carry the design intent across lobbies, corridors, and amenity spaces.

Can Karice support custom lighting for double-height residential entries and stair volumes?

Yes. These spaces need careful control of scale, drop height, suspension, and structure. We resolve those factors during design and fabrication so the fixture reads correctly from multiple levels and installs cleanly.

Can Karice fabricate fixtures compatible with a residential lighting control system - Lutron, Crestron, or similar?

Yes. High-end residential lighting almost always specifies a control system, and we fabricate fixtures compatible with these systems. We further align driver selection and dimming protocol to the specified system before production begins.

Can Karice support outdoor residential lighting in covered and exposed conditions?

Yes. We can fabricate outdoor residential fixtures for covered and exposed applications. Exposure, moisture, finish durability, and mounting conditions are built into the design.

Is Karice a fit for private residences, or mainly for multi-residential and commercial work?

Both. The better question is whether the project needs custom fabrication. We deliver commercial and residential lighting solutions across private homes, multi-residential developments, and commercial spaces where standard fixtures can't meet the design or technical requirements.

Can a custom fixture be designed for a specific architectural condition โ€” like a sloped ceiling or double-height space?

Yes. Unusual ceiling conditions, double-height volumes, and tight structural constraints are exactly the kind of conditions that make custom fabrication the right call over off-the-shelf.

Can Karice produce a prototype or sample before full production?

Yes. For custom residential projects where a fixture is a centrepiece or the finish needs to be confirmed against the interior materials, we can produce a prototype or first article before committing to full production.

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We'll engineer the solution.

Whether you’re starting with a sketch, a mockup, or a complete design, we have the expertise to transform your vision into a custom lighting solution engineered specifically for your project.