Talks

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Recent Talks

“How to Enter and Win Design Contests; Your Most Cost-Effective Marketing”

Virtual - NKBA - Central New York Chapter

April 17, 2024

“How to Enter and Win Design Contests; Your Most Cost-Effective Marketing”

NKBA - San Diego, California

April 9, 2024

Kitchen Lighting Done Right: Lessons Learned in the Field”

KBIS (www.KBIS.com) - Las Vegas, Nevada

February 27, 2024 - 10:45-11:45 in room N262

“Kitchens and Baths for All: Towards a New Definition of Ability”

Seattle, WA - October 7, 2023

“How to Enter and Win Design Contests; Your Most Cost-Effective Marketing”

Design Chicago - Chicago Merchandise Mart - September 26, 2023

“High Performance Home Lighting For Health, Safety & Welfare”

CLICK HERE for Doug’s Presentation featured on EEBA Academy Weekly Webinar Series

Lessons Learned: Five Lighting Case Studies

NKBA National - VIA ZOOM - May 9, 2023

“Understanding the New Kitchen & Bath Design Guidelines”

NKBA Rocky Mountain Chapter Meeting

Denver, CO - April 20, 2023

“A Roadmap to Your Most Cost-Effective Marketing”

NKBA Northern California Chapter

San Francisco, CA - April 18, 2023

“Healthy and Effective Home Lighting for All”

Universal Design Alliance - VIA ZOOM

St. Louis, MO - April 10, 2023

Instruction on Guidelines to NKBA, Rocky Mountain Chapter (April, 2023)

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Most homes in America are woefully underlit. Codes are no help, because they have minimal requirements (would you believe the International Residential Code only requires ONE light in a kitchen?).


Upcoming Talks

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Doug speaks frequently to NKBA Chapter meetings around the country. Here, he shares his original research and case studies with a Denver audience.

Doug speaks frequently to NKBA Chapter meetings around the country. Here, he shares his original research and case studies with a Denver audience.

Doug’s Presentation Catalog

"Rewriting the Rules on Kitchen Lighting"

"Historic without Hysterics"

"90 Minutes to an Award-Winning Kitchen"

"Day or Night, Let There Be Light!"

"Shining a Light on Home Modifications"

"Creative Ways to Daylight Your Kitchen & Bath"

"Show Your Work in a Better Light" (Live webinar)

“The Ins and Outs of Lighting and Daylighting” (3hrs.)

“Kitchens and Baths for All: 2nd Annual Design Review Panel”

“Lighting & Daylighting for Seniors (and the rest of us!)”

“Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating Historic & Existing Homes”

“Designing Additions to Historic & Existing Buildings”

“Sympathetic Additions to Historic and Existing Buildings”

“Lighting the Kitchen and Bath After the Sun Goes Down”

“Daylighting the Kitchen and Bath”


The best presentation to help understand the key issue with lighting design that I’ve ever been exposed to.
Awesome; loved that it was both basic and advanced.
— Comments from attendees at KBIS talk, rated 4.77 out of 5