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Wiring a modern home takes careful thought and planning. Some of today's residences range from 1,500 square foot custom homes, to as much as 35,000 square feet on some mansions. Add to the growing size of homes the sheer diversity of electrical equipment that has arrived on the residential scene--such as home theaters, home automation systems, security systems and outdoor lighting--and you might as well be wiring a small commercial building! Gone are the days of providing a few extra circuits, looping the telephone wire from room to room, or installing simple dimmer controls. Today's electrical contractors must understand and manage a plethora of subsystems that include everything from emergency generators to lighting control systems. Where there were once traditional switches on the wall, you now find keypads and touch screens. Standby generators have become the norm, rather than the exception.
Illuminations Lighting Design is a licensed electrical contractor servicing the Houston area and numerous surrounding municipalities in the Texas Gulf Coast region. From new home wiring, service changes, and remodeling--to basic troubleshooting of electrical problems--Illuminations can handle all of your electrical contracting needs from start to finish.
For over 25 years, Illuminations Lighting Design has built and nurtured a reputation for unparalleled performance, reasonable rates and fast, friendly service in the demanding custom home market. Our experienced staff of design professionals and licensed electricians are dedicated to providing innovative electrical solutions that incorporate emerging technologies for both residential and commercial customers.Our full time master electrician oversees a staff of over thirty licensed electricians who ensure that all work is efficiently and safely laid out, and conforms to the National Electrical Code and all local codes. Each of our fine apprentice electricians are required to attend a four-year training program at the Independent Electrical Contractors School while gathering valuable experience on the job before taking the journeyman's exam. All journeymen electricians are required to attend periodic continuing education courses to keep them updated on electrical codes and new technologies.
Simply put, our staff is Illuminations Lighting Design's greatest asset. We are fortunate as an electrical contractor to employ and retain such a highly skilled workforce of craftsmen and mechanics who enjoy what they do. Working carefully and efficiently, they will treat your home with respect while ensuring the job gets done right. Their pride, persistence, quality and determination are the hallmark of Illuminations Lighting Design's tradition. Our testimonials page offers proof of that fact.
Illuminations Lighting Design is a full service electrical company. We take great pride in our ability to help customers solve their electrical problems and meet their personal objectives. Whether that service comes in the form of assistance from Illuminations management team, supervisors, or any of our 50 plus employees, Illuminations Lighting Design is ready to help you meet your goals. Labels: Electrical contractor Houston Texas, Residential Electrician, Specialty Lighting Contractor
 Home automation wiring combines the very best in technology with the most creative and custom solutions available to today's sophisticated and busy homeowner. Home automation wiring links vital home systems and entertainment features directly to a central computer that allows for single-point access to the many different elements of quality home living. As life becomes increasingly hectic, the home becomes more of a sanctuary and the one environment that the individual has direct and unilateral control over. Wiring the home for automation not only makes things more efficient, but also empowers the individual with a sense of control not only over technology, but of personal freedom and choice which can seem a bit elusive at times in today's unstable and chaotic times.
Illuminations Lighting and Design maintains a fully trained staff of certified electricians who know the ins and outs of electrical wiring and home automation systems. Since we work in the most exclusive neighborhoods of Houston such as River Oaks, West University, Tanglewood, and the Memorial Villages, we routinely encounter custom homes with unique architecture that calls for home automation wiring that the standard generic equipment of retailers simply cannot adequately or safely deliver. Our goal is to provide each and every homeowner with structured wiring that will accommodate future upgrades and home renovations and expansion. Before laying the wire for the home automation, we carefully calculate the many variables that compose the system and install cable plant design based upon the client's unique automation requirements. While almost all of our systems utilize home automation controls by manufacturers such as Lutron, Vantage, and AMX our home automation wiring layout is tailor-made for the architecture of the house and the individual tastes of the homeowner.
ILD knows that entertainment matters to its clients now more than ever before. As increasingly larger numbers of people entertain friends and family at home, they need increasingly sophisticated technology to deliver a superior audio/visual experience. Few of our competitors can deliver the level of customization we routinely employ to the benefit or our many satisfied clients. Even fewer can design automation systems that will anticipate and adapt easily to new technologies. We take a very active and forward-looking approach to home automation wiring that distinguishes us in this marketplace and provides the customer with the most adaptable system congruent with present and anticipated future technologies. We centralize low voltage solutions that accommodate current audio/video demands and leave room for future upgrades. We further enhance these layouts with high cables for speakers, high definition video, phone systems, intercom systems, and security cameras. Knowing that technology changes very rapidly, we wire home automation systems with high end low voltage cabling that offers the very best interface for anticipated technologies that could appear on the market at any time.
ILD prides itself on the level of satisfaction we deliver daily to clients throughout Houston and Greater Texas. As our communities continue to show every growing interest home automation, our specialized blend of creativity and technologically savvy proves increasingly valuable in this unique and rapidly evolving industry. Call us today to see what we can do to take your life to a whole new level.Labels: home theaters, Houston Texas Contractors, Lighting and Home Automation
Outdoor lighting maintenance can be more complicated than you think. Even changing a low voltage halogen light bulb, for instance, can require knowledge that only a trained outdoor lighting maintenance professional would know. Specifications not available to consumers can determine mission critical success or failure of a replacement. Reliable and lasting results depend on knowing what wattage the fixture is designed for, what beam spread the lamp uses for various results, and what temperatures allow the light to burn with optimal safety and maximum half-life. The outdoor lighting maintenance team here at ILD is here to help you with any questions and to develop replacement and upgrade solutions that will protect both your investment and personal safety anytime you think you might have a problem.
Many things in life can and should bring great satisfaction to the "do it yourselfer", but ELECTRICAL WORK IS NOT ONE OF THEM. Because of the hazards of shock and electrical failure, we always caution even the savviest and most mechanically inclined to contract their outdoor lighting maintenance from trained and certified electrical professionals. Even if you took an electronics course in college or trade school and feel confident you know wiring and lighting, please understand that technology evolves more rapidly each day, and every piece of new equipment has a mind of its own, so to speak, when it comes to interacting with other pieces of equipment. Some outdoor lighting fixtures, such as HID fixtures, require the use of a ballast to drive the lamp. Maintenance professionals are normally the only people with access to the right ballast models and with the necessary training to install them. Low voltage fixtures require a 12-volt power supply, and mismatching a low voltage light with a high voltage power supply can blow out the light instantly. Even more discouraging to a consumer who has just purchased some of the newer MR16 lamps is the sinking feeling of doing everything right and then watching the bulb prematurely fail in a matter of days. This happens with MR16 lamps because the glass envelope that constitutes the light's reflectors is highly sensitive to oil. Just a small deposit from a person's fingers can cause premature burnout. An even more serious situation results when a homeowner mistakenly installs an indoor light designed for dry locations in their back or front yard. Houston humidity can quickly cause a short circuit that could result in severe or even fatal electrocution.
Outdoor lighting maintenance involves more than simply replacing faulty equipment. It involves optimizing existing equipment configurations so that homeowners can receive the best return on their financial investment possible and maintain the highest value that outdoor lighting brings to their property. We often change groupings of lamps to address lamp depreciation, color shift, and normal life expectancy. Outdoor lighting maintenance professionals from ILD can add value to service by replacing halogen lamps with a 4000 average lamp life with mercury vapor lamps with a 24,000-hour average lamp life. Mercury vapor lights also produce better illumination because they install in trees and cast a soft glow downward. Definitely call an outdoor lighting maintenance professional to install these tree lights. You can fall off a ladder or scar your tree in an attempt to install one yourself. ILD uses professional tree climbers to install these fixtures and uses techniques that are safe and environmentally "tree friendly."
Outdoor lighting maintenance professionals not only have mastered the basics, but also retrain annually in new technology seminars so they can help our customers with all of these variables and find the best and most affordable solution to whatever maintenance needs their outdoor lighting design requires. Call us now to see what we can do to help you improve your property, peace of mind, and personal well being today. Labels: houston landscape lighting, light repairs, maintenance
Home automation represents a rising and rapidly evolving industry. Home automation installers are highly trained professionals who are equally savvy as technical experts, licensed electrical contractors, and creative designers. Illuminations Lighting and Design, Houston's premier lighting design and electrical consulting firm, heads up the city's most impeccable home automation department, with installers trained and cross-trained in every nuance of equipment selection, installation, and project development strategy.
Home automation clients can be new homeowners or existing homeowners who decide to take their lifestyles to the next level. Often we encounter new clients who have already installed or had installed a measure of home automation from either a retail source or a competitive entity. The first thing these clients usually tell us is that their existing home automation network fails to deliver control over every element of life. A client with a state of the art home theatre system may suddenly realize he or she has to get up and walk across the room to close the shades or dim the lights. Clients hosting parties at home quickly realize that remote control of the air conditioner would not only add convenience to the event but help them save on energy costs as guests fan the doors all night and move back and forth between the home theatre, the garden, the patio, and the spa. Such integrated and centralized control is the difference that sets a custom home automation project by ILD apart from competitive entities specializing only in the equipment itself or limited home automation installation specific only to segments of the lifestyle rather than comprehensively accommodating the entire lifestyle.
When our home automation installers step into such an arena, they carefully evaluate existing technology and retrofit the very best in new technology for a home automation network that leaves room for future growth and evolution of technology. Since most home automation installation in today's market requires customizing or creating a home theatre system, we require all of our home automation installation consultants to train and certify in high-end home theatre systems by Sony, Boston, and Vienna Acoustics. This way, our clients are assured that every element of living is not only automated, but also fully optimized to manufacturer standards and equipment specifications.ILD's home automation installers spend many years in training and continuing professional education programs to develop the knowledge base required to meet the high demands of this intense, technically demanding industry. Additionally, each ILD technician mentors as an apprentice under a veteran technician to learn the proprietary methodologies exclusive to Illuminations Lighting and Design. The result of our intensive training and apprenticeship programs is a knowledgeable, experienced team of home automation installers whose expertise in current and upcoming technologies enable us to install home automation networks that are completely unique and individualize to each specific client we service. The safety, reliability, and exceptional value of our work are backed up with tangibles every time at the end of the day. Our home automation installation specialists carry design certifications and undergo frequent cross-training with other industries such as architecture, construction, and landscaping as well to ensure that our solutions truly address every aspect of home build and home living.
Throughout Houston and now Greater Texas, our division of home automation installers is rapidly gaining not only notoriety, but also an outstanding reputation for being the single source of the most comprehensive home automation designs that apply only the very latest and advanced technology in a one of kind design. Best of all, our home automation installers are good communicators and even better listeners who know how to make a project not only a technology upgrade, but a lifestyle upgrade as well that exceeds the expectations of clients. Call today 713-863-1133 to see what our team can do for your world starting now.Labels: home theaters, Houston Texas Contractors, Lighting and Home Automation
Illuminations Lighting and Design offers full design, consultation, and installation services for any commercial or residential landscape lighting design project. With years of experience and extensive cross training in other disciplines, our consultants can design lighting landscapes that enhance the aesthetic and functional element of any property. Our clients rely upon us to develop unobtrusive lighting solutions that emphasize features and minimize the appearance of fixtures. As a certified electrical contractor and a certified design firm, ILD offers the unique benefit as a one-source provider of both the creative and technical aspects of the project. Houstonians and residents throughout Greater Texas come to us as one of the few firms that can design, supply, install, and service a one of a kind landscape lighting theme from start to finish.
Commercial clients can advertise twenty-four hours a day with sign lighting that brands their logo with continuous illumination. The more sophisticated the building sign, the more opportunity we have to showcase its uniqueness. We have many landscape lighting fixtures optimized for three-dimensional artwork that also work equally well on three-dimensional granite and marble surfaces. We also carry a number of landscape lighting fixtures that create superior facade lighting effects. For buildings that appear too homogeneous in color and material, facade lighting proves the ideal alternative to renovation or relocation. The effects of certain lighting can actually alter color and texture in such a fashion as to make the plain face of a building appear as something completely different under the effects of the light.
Residential landscape lighting and design often requires illuminating both organic and inorganic features of the landscape. ILD accommodates this complexity by linking interrelated landscape lighting design subsystems into an overall theme or home automation system. We specialize in accent lighting for sculptures and structures that takes a minimalist approach to illumination. We find that softer lighting such as moon lighting creates a surreal enhancement of three-dimensional art without the distracting glare generated by generic, high-voltage bright lights. We utilize similar techniques in path and garden lighting, casting only enough light to provide a safe path for travel and environmental enhancement. With special equipment from the world’s best lighting manufacturers, we can even provide water feature lighting for fountains, ponds, and waterfalls located near sidewalks and garden paths. Commercial clients value landscape lighting design as a tool to showcase the most excellent elements of their facilities and commercial property. Residential clients find them essential elements to a truly entertaining home-based event that involves any extended time outdoors near the pool, the garden, or the patio.
Regardless of whether a client is a residential client or a commercial client, safety and security concerns are foremost in our mind whenever we design a landscape lighting them. Lighting creates a continuous emotional presence that deters criminal and nefarious activity simply because it minimizes the opportunity for miscreants to conceal themselves. Without compromising aesthetics, we install motion sensors around and within the property's perimeter and link these sensors to security floodlights and alert systems. What appears to the casual passerby to be a soft, illuminated fountain or walkway is in actuality a highly sensitive detection system that will alert building and homeowners, along with law enforcement, in an instant if something suspicious occurs. We fine tune this equipment of course to ensure that only humans trigger the sensors, so false alarms by pets and wildlife occur much less frequently with ILD landscape lighting and security designs than they do with generic and retail floodlights.
ILD maintains a full-service staff of technicians with a typical four-hour response time to landscape lighting design clients in need of upgrade or maintenance. After twenty-seven years of consistent value production in this unique and eclectic niche market, ILD is the premier source of equipment and service regardless of the nature of your landscape lighting design needs. Call today for a courtesy consultation to determine what exactly we can do for you. Labels: houston landscape lighting, Lighting and Home Automation
Architectural custom lighting utilizes illumination to enhance structural beauty and develop aesthetic sub themes that support the overall design and decorum of buildings. Commercial clients and residential homeowners alike benefit from the exponential enhancement that architectural custom lighting brings to building form and function. As a distributor of the world's best architectural custom lighting equipment and a full-service firm certified in electrical and design work, Illuminations Lighting and Design delivers solutions that bear the signature of superior planning and technical skill by balancing key elements of structure and function into synthesized, synergistic themes.
Many people are surprised to learn that materials play an enormous role in architectural custom lighting. Since the purpose of any lighting theme is to either minimize fixture visibility or blend decorative fixtures into their surroundings, architectural custom lighting in particular requires the trained eye of a professional lighting designer who is familiar with building materials knows which lighting fixtures will compliment the environment with maximum aesthetic. It also requires access to the widest variety of fixtures on the market, as each building and custom home will consist of one or more very unique elements that require a highly customized equipment to properly illuminate. ILD delivers value on both levels by cross training its technicians in architectural theory and methodology so that no surprises occur when they arrive on site to service our client. We further support our projects by making available the widest selection of lighting fixtures from the world's top manufacturers. Armed with knowledge and advanced technology, our technicians can bring out the hidden beauty latent in building materials such as marble, glass, granite, and even wood.
As a creative firm fully aware of the philosophical, scientific, psychological and spiritual connotations of light, we pay careful attention to color in all of our lighting design work. Superior custom architectural lighting rarely consists of a single design theme. Due to the complex nature of most custom homes and buildings with high-end architectural design, customized lighting has to first focus on key structural and aesthetic features and accentuate points of differentiation. Once a balanced illumination of keynote features appears within the structure, a synthesis evolves where various illuminated subjects combine into an aesthetic of interrelationship and design similarities. Color is the key to all of this. By correctly applying varying degrees of color to objects and features which otherwise would appear in congruent or separatist in relationship, ILD architectural custom lighting specialists create fields of complimentary colors that combine to aesthetically support high-end building and custom home design elements.
As in any custom lighting project, architectural lighting in particular requires precise measurements of light on the color-rendering index and in photometric calculations. (Photometrics measure luminosity and determine the level of brilliance a particular bulb emits upon the subject.) Lighting architecture with customization foremost in mind requires that we determine in advance what combinations of color; light, and possibly even shadow will most effectively highlight homes, office buildings, and public facilities. For ambient and mood lighting in custom homes we normally link custom architectural lighting design to home automation controls that can change the appearance of the room or even the entire house with multiple lighting themes, each offering its own unique aesthetic and point of view. In commercial arenas we often link architectural lighting to security lighting and landscape lighting to fully protect and beautify commercial property at all hours of the night.
Custom architectural lighting is a must for any eclectic homeowner or business owner looking to create the appearance of multiple realities within the space of fixed reality. The fluidity of design available through this medium makes it one of our most sought after service offerings, and has helped build our twenty-seven year reputation as a lighting design industry leader. Call us now to see what new experience we can bring to your world today. Labels: Lighting and Home Automation, Lighting Design Company
Illuminations Lighting and Design delivers creative and technical lighting design services in multiple vertical markets and diverse neighborhoods throughout Houston and Greater Texas. Over the past 27 years, we have earned our reputation as a leader in all forms of lighting design and electrical contracting services in both commercial and residential arenas. Our clients enjoy the benefits of custom lighting design services that reflect both the physical structures they occupy and the lifestyle, values, and activities that occur within those structures. Years of cross training and mentoring under seasoned veterans of our company have given each and every one of our consultants a multi-disciplinary skill set consisting of construction methodology, CAD software application, architectural design theory, all forms of landscaping, and interior design techniques. Armed with such a vast reservoir of knowledge, each lighting design service client can expect to see a result that complements existing structures, decorative themes, important functions, and daily activities.
We place a heavy emphasis on training at Illuminations Lighting and Design. In addition to learning the full gamut of lighting design services, each technician also studies other disciplines parallel to our own. When working on new homes or office buildings, we assist general contractors and builders by implementing our lighting design services and electrical contracting expertise from the ground up. We partner with a number of architects, builders, interior designers, and landscapers to ensure that our lighting design services enhance every aspect of function and form.
Our superior results extend into virtually every commercial and residential arena. We work in the most exclusive neighborhoods such as River Oaks, Tanglewood, Memorial, Bellaire, and West University, providing lighting design services for owners of mid to large size homes and custom mansions alike. Our electrical services and home automation departments assist in renovation and home improvement projects that transform existing structures into entirely new dwellings. Homeowners with eclectic tastes consistently call ILD for lighting design services that illuminate artwork and three-dimensional art displays. Art galleries throughout Houston come to us as well for proprietary, patented technology that delivers optimal illumination without any of the destructive effects created by inferior forms of lighting and generic installs. In the industrial arena we create low-voltage architectural and security lighting designs that serve to both beautify structures while simultaneously keeping them safe at lower power rates. Our knowledge of the philosophical and spiritual connotations of light have also attracted first preference from churches and hospitality professionals who rely on Illuminations Lighting and Design's services to implement themes that reflect the deepest levels of human emotion and faith.
Regardless of who our client is, we begin each project with detailed CAD planning, hand renderings, and systematical analysis of lighting specifications. Each ILD consultant is a professional who will ensure that all elements of the project comply with regulatory authority and safety laws. Our full lighting design services include:
Lighting Control System Specification, Layout and Programming for home automation clients. This allows the homeowner one-touch control of luminosity, power on/off, and multiple lighting themes that set various moods fro different occasions.
Custom Architectural Lighting Details that keynote specific structural features.
Custom On-Site Focusing and Aiming of Fixtures to obscure the fixtures themselves and create magical lighting effects around objects.
Photometric Calculations to create precise levels of luminosity and superior color rendering in key locations.
Energy Code Assistance, Recommendations and Documentation to help reduce power consumption and ensure full regulatory compliance of all electrical and lighting systems within a facility.
Analysis and Recommendations for existing sites.
Illuminations Lighting and Design's services and creative solutions will bring a whole new level of living and business experience to clients in any walk of life or occupation. Our goal is to enhance homes and buildings and fill landscapes and interiors with the only thing in existence that occupies space without consuming square footage - light. Call us today so we can create such an experience for your unique reality regardless of industry, vocation, lifestyle, personal tastes, or personal faith. Labels: Lighting Design Company
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