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Until recently, public cinema held second place only to concert halls in acoustical depth and variety. Because a cinema’s acoustical media is designed with speakers positioned both above and around the audience, (as well as underneath and on each side of the screen) different sounds emanate from different points in the room. Dialogue flows from the speakers in front of the screen to mimic real life speech. Sounds emanating from the surrounding set come from speakers positioned along walls and ceilings, creating the illusion that audience members are actually within the movie along side of the characters. This is extremely difficult-- if not impossible-- to duplicate with retail equipment and homemade media designs. Effective home theater acoustics require advanced, formal training in architectural theory and the acoustical qualities of specific construction materials. Only through a licensed distributor such as ILD can a homeowner acquire both the level of technical sophistication and the media design skills required to create a truly authentic, life-like surround sound experience.
High-end media design requires equal levels of interdisciplinary skills to truly rival the large screen and advanced color-rendering capabilities of a movie theater screen. No home theater screen equates in physical dimensions to the wall-sized screens in movie houses. As such, even the most sophisticated media design using the most advanced equipment has to compensate for this obvious difference in size with an illusion of vastness and a color rendering index that in many cases has to surpass theater screens to achieve the same optical effect. It takes a designer’s eye for proportion and perspective to know where in the room to position the screen so that the video itself appears to fill an entire wall even though the screen itself may not physically do so. It takes a technical expert in many discipline-- natural lighting, viewing angles, photo metrics, interior lighting and decorating, and advanced media design-- to know which type of projector and screen will work best with a particular home theater system.
As premier consultants serving all of greater Texas and specializing in high-end clientele throughout Houston, the media design services at Illuminations Lighting blend a sophisticated interdisciplinary skill set into a customized, highly individualized home theater experience. Media design entails much more than choosing equipment and self-installing that equipment in a room large enough to entertain family and friends. True media design consists of architectural and acoustical analytics, systematic analysis of natural and indoor lighting levels, and superior interior design skills that maintain aesthetic balance while delivering optimum technical performance. Throughout Houston’s premier neighborhoods, homeowners enjoy professional-grade equipment available only through specialty dealers such as ILD networked into sophisticated home automation controls that make wish command at the push of a button.
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For a personal consultation with our Director of Home Automation and Theater, call 713-863-1133 and ask to speak with Faisal to schedule a free appointment. Labels: Audio Video Consultants, Home Theater Design, low voltage lighting systems, Media Design Company
Illuminations Lighting Design home theater designs offer the astute consumer a truly superior cinematic experience. Home theater designs must reflect, balance, and work in complete harmony with its immediate environment and end-user commands. Audio and video are both directly affected by architectural acoustics, interior lighting, and natural light encroaching into the home, so truly exceptional home theater designs must consist of multiple design layers where key components are balanced and networked together to provide a harmonious audiovisual unity that works in tandem with homeowner controls and automation and lighting programs. Lighting also plays a critical role in home theater design, requiring a tricky balance at all times between functional illumination for comfort and safety and dimmer, specialty light for film viewing and appropriate special effects. Automated, home theater seats are the latest innovation in home theater design, adding physical movement to motion pictures and making home theater a truly moving experience that movie houses still do not offer to this day.
Every home theater design we produce is custom-developed through a series of consultations we conduct at your residence. We use advanced CAD software to designate control locations and wiring designs for automated controls and subsystems, and we build visual models of layered lighting and acoustical affects. The resulting 3-D visual schematic of our proposed home theater design allows you to clearly visualize the outcome and to play an interactive role in the design process. Upon approval of the proposal, our team then conducts a series of highly detailed, systematic tests on room acoustics and lighting levels. We use this data to then select the very best audiovisual equipment for your particular home theater design.
Our certification and extensive experience in electrical design and home automation makes it possible to design a home theater in virtually any size room or custom floor plan, provided the environment offers exceptional acoustic potential. We partner with top architectural firms to learn the nuances of their industry, and then we apply that to your custom project. We analyze acoustical qualities of wood, stone, interior brick, and other composite materials that will function as the physical housing of the new home theater. Systematic analysis of ceiling height and corner angles enable us to precisely anticipate the optimal audio frequency that will deliver the maximum quality of sound in that particular room. This data in turn helps us determine the size, number, manufacture, and placement of forward and surround sound speakers and audio distribution systems.
As distributors of every major television and sound system manufacturer in the world, we have an available inventory that is actually larger than that of any home theater store, and we choose that equipment after we develop the superior acoustics and lighting effects so there is never a conflict between theory and form. It is so much better to hire ILD for your home theater design than to spend gas and travel time going to a home theater store. We not only build the system just for you, but we build it with manufacturer grade lights and theater that only that only authorized distributors such as ILD can legally resell.
As home theater design becomes increasingly popular and sophisticated, more people are calling ILD to give an experience beyond retail that makes staying at home more fun that going to the movies ever was. Why not become a part of that growing group of satisfied clientele?
Call 713-863-1133 today for a free consultation, and line up friends and family at home for a whole new kind of movie adventure. Labels: Home Theater Design, Home Theater Experience, Houston Home Theaters, Lighting and Home Automation
The main drawback of self-installed home theater systems is the inability of retail grade components to exactly match acoustics with the size and configuration of a room’s interior architecture. Retail components of home theater systems are engineered for mass production and sale, and consequently manufacturers use less expensive materials in building these components. While self-installations can sometimes produce a close equivalent to public theater, sound produced by retail components will never completely eliminate muffling, reverb, and acoustical dead spots that only professionally fine-tuned, manufacturer grade components can accomplish. However, when a multi-specialty distributor such as Illuminations Lighting builds a home theater system with any number and combination of literally thousands of possible professional grade components, it becomes not only possible to equal public entertainment, but to surpass it altogether.
Representing companies such as Sony, Panasonic, Mitsubishi, Runco, Sharp, Boston Acoustics, Vienna, and Triad, ILD also provides superior sound, video, and audio distribution equipment for home theater systems. We can select any size and configuration of speaker, front or rear end projector, flat panel television, and surround sound distribution system and literally build a home theater system into the existing floor plan, physical size, interior design, and specific location and architecture of the room. We even install special home theater seats that move with the action of the movie---something public cinema has yet to do.
Because of their extensive cross training in architecture and interior design, ILD engineers can actually assist a homeowner choose the ideal location to set up the home theater system. Such factors as ceiling height, wall and ceiling material build, and even the angles and positions of corners and large decorations play a major role in how sound travels and reflects in a room. Lighting represents another critical factor that requires a trained, professional eye to design. Few rooms in modern homes are windowless, so limiting natural light and creating special lighting effects require not only commercial grade lighting equipment, but also lighting automation programming that is only available through a team trained in home automation technology. We program hundreds of lighting combinations, colored lighting effects, and dimmable lighting options into your system and bring them directly under your control at the touch of a button.
Clients who make the wise decision to invest in high expectations are never disappointed when they turn to ILD to make their dreams for a home theater system become a tangible, personalized reality. Why not become one of these satisfied clients day? Call 713-863-1133 and ask for Faisal, Director of Home Automation and Theater Custom Design. See what your home can do that no other home—or even public cinema—can even come close to doing. Labels: Home Theater Design, Home Theater Experience, Houston Home Theaters, Lighting and Home Automation
Home theater design consists of much more than high-powered televisions and surround sound speakers. To be truly competitive with public movie houses, and to offer the eclectic homeowner a truly superior cinematic encounter, home theater design must reflect, balance, and work in complete harmony with its immediate environment and end-user commands. As sound and video are both directly affected by architectural acoustics, interior lighting, and natural light encroaching into the home, exceptional home theater design actually consists of multiple design layers where key components are balanced and networked together to provide a harmonious audiovisual unity that works in tandem with homeowner controls and automation and lighting programs. This requires both a multi-specialty skill set and access to literally thousands of audiovisual devices in order to provide a truly custom home theater design specific to the taste and desires of the individual client.
Our team initiates every home theater design project with a systematic and detailed consultation with the client. We develop a soft copy of the system first, using CAD software to represent individual audio/visual components, map out the automation and networking of controls and subsystems, and build visual models of layered lighting and acoustical affects. The resulting 3-D visual schematic of our proposed home theater design allows the client to clearly visualize the outcome and instantly provide us with feedback or request for changes prior to purchasing equipment of accruing labor costs.
Upon client approval of the proposal, our team then conducts a series of highly detailed, systematic tests on room acoustics and lighting levels. We measure window dimensions and corresponding natural light levels in order to determine which methods of natural light control will work best in that particular home theater design. We draw upon years of cross-training and partnership with major building contractors and architectural firms to carefully assess the acoustical qualities of wood, stone, interior brick, and other composite materials that will function as the physical housing of the new home theater. Systematic analysis of ceiling height and corner angles enables us to precisely anticipate the optimal audio frequency that will deliver the maximum quality of sound in that particular room. This data in turn helps us determine the size, number, manufacture, and placement of forward and surround sound speakers and audio distribution systems. Our certification and extensive experience in electrical design and home automation makes it possible to design a home theater in virtually any size room or custom floor plan, provided the environment offers exceptional acoustic potential.
We rely heavily upon client preference for television and projector selection. Often this is simply a matter of taste. Some clients prefer front-end projection screens that fill an entire wall. Others prefer their home theater designed around smaller, flat screen televisions that sit within the wall or an entertainment system. Regardless of build or model ultimately installed, each television and projection system features professional grade components whose picture quality, anticipated lifespan, and level of customization far surpass retail equivalents that may appear, but by no means function, the same.
Lighting also plays a critical role in home theater design, requiring a tight balance between functional light for comfort and safety and dim and speciality light for film viewing and appropriate special effects. Our relationship with over 20 major lighting manufacturers enables our home theater design team to select energy-saving, high-end lighting equipment that delivers the exact level of control and flexibility necessary to customize lighting to movie genre, historical period, audience, and homeowner preference. Our technicians can turn direct control of these lighting levels over to the host, or we can link multiple lighting levels and effects back to a central home automation control unit, using sensors and timers to automatically dim the lights the moment the host hits “play.”
As ever-growing numbers of people return home for entertainment that offers direct participation and personal control, home theater design becomes increasingly popular and sophisticated. ILD leads the way in this new, exciting, and continuously evolving industry. Contact Us at 713-863-1133 and learn how we can design a home theater for you! Labels: Home Theater Design, Home Theater Lighting, Houston Home Theaters, Lighting and Home Automation
 Illuminations Lighting Design is proud to announce its membership with the National Association of Women in Construction or NAWIC.
The National Association of Women in Construction or NAWIC originally began as Women in Construction of Fort Worth, Texas. It was founded in 1953 by 16 women working in the construction industry. Knowing that women represented only a small fraction of the construction industry, the founders organized NAWIC to create a support network. Women in Construction of Fort Worth was so successful that it gained its national charter in 1955 and became the National Association of Women in Construction. NAWIC's core purpose is to enhance the success of women in the construction industry.
NAWIC’s objectives are:
• To unite for the mutual benefit of the women who are actively engaged in the various phases of the construction industry.
• To promote cooperation, fellowship and a better understanding among members of the Association.
• To promote education and contribute to the betterment of the construction industry.
• To encourage women to pursue and establish careers in the construction industry.
• To provide members an awareness of the legislative process and legislation as it relates to the construction industry.
In its 51 years history of service to its membership, NAWIC has advanced the causes of all women in construction, from trades women to business owners. NAWIC has a membership of more than 5,500 with 179 chapters in almost every U.S. state. Since 1996, NAWIC has seen its core purpose grow internationally, with the signing of International Affiliation Agreements with NAWIC-Australia, NAWIC-New Zealand, South African Women in Construction, NAWIC-United Kingdom and in 2006, with the Canadian Women in Construction (CAWIC).
For more information about National Association of Women in Construction and its benefits, please visit the NAWIC website or contact Aleini LaCombe at Illuminations Lighting Design at 713.863.1133 X 125.Labels: Houston Texas Contractors, Independant Residential Electrical Contractor, National Association of Women in Construction
 Illuminations Lighting and Design installs commercial sign lighting at entrances to subdivisions, hotels, high-rise buildings, golf courses, and other land based signage. We focus on creating commercial sign lighting that is tasteful, well shielded, and energy efficient. Sign companies value partnership with ILD because we enhance their workmanship with a universal aesthetic that accentuates the subtle points of differentiation that brand their workmanship. Property owners, developers, and landscape contractors seek us out because of our award-winning skills in concealing commercial sign lighting equipment in plant materials and unobtrusive positioning. Our work results in an illuminated radius extending from the signage itself that unites natural landscapes and corporate branding with key architectural elements such as monuments, columns, and gates. ILD Commercial sign lighting systems create a grand entryway of light that welcomes guests and distinguishes properties and organizations with sophistication, elegance, and a feeling of comfort and safety.
Making the decision to invest in commercial sign lighting requires a mindset that places high value on branding and advertising. We readily admit less expensive solutions saturate the marketplace in the form of self-installing kits and smaller organizations that specialize in billboard and over-building lighting. Our value lies in helping organizations create a superior first impression to residents, guests, clients, and even passing motorists who view our work. Land-based commercial sign lighting creates an illuminated display where the source of light remains hidden and theme and design assume a dominant position on the landscape. Our multiple partnerships with architectural and landscaping firms, and our five specializations of expertise in our own industry, enable us to congruently link and synthesize sign lighting with commercial exterior, landscape, and architectural lighting designs. This proves especially valuable for facilities with gated entrances and long, winding driveways, and adds mystique and sensibility to grounds and buildings alike.
Our Commercial sign lighting clientele covers a broad spectrum of industries, vertical markets, and physical locales. Almost any business with a land-based sing will benefit from highlighting their brand and logo to passing traffic and nighttime visitors. This highly effective form of advertising requires only a one-time investment in consulting services and equipment, and other than our optional maintenance agreement, requires no ongoing expenditures. Commercial sign lights prove invaluable to gated apartment communities and suburban developments. Bright, clear visibility increases security and diminishes the odds of criminal mischief and trespass. Our landscape and security lighting services can actually blend the entryway lighting into ornamental parking lot lights and special landscaping features surrounding the main driveway. On the very high-end of our service tier, five star hotels, resorts, and country clubs normally subcontracts us for a number of specialty services to ensure that our commercial sign lighting immediately creates mood and atmosphere that extends into the fairways, gardens, outdoor dining areas, building architecture, and interior lighting.
Guest and visitor parking areas enjoy enhanced security and safety from commercial sign lighting and entrance illumination. Attendees to evening events enter a realm of special effects and functional brilliance that sets the activities of the night apart from the stress of daytime working hours. Residents returning home to high rise residential facilities enjoy a feeling of safety and seclusion set definitively apart from glaring street lights and dark building shadows in the surrounding neighborhood. Commercial sign lighting can create the theme for an entire nighttime vista when interwoven with landscape accent lighting and tree canopy lighting, creating the optical effect of unity between human engineering and Natural beauty. With a touch of architectural lighting and moon shadow lighting, arches, waterfalls, and ornamental sculptures experience a mystical touch of light that appears to magically appear around individual forms and creates a symmetrical balance between signage, construction, outdoor decorations, and indigenous vegetation.
Illuminations Lighting and Design builds every lighting system custom to the individual client. ILD specialists work throughout greater Texas and also travel nationwide for selective high-end projects. Call 713-863-1133 for a complimentary consultation with our Vice President, Rick Luberger. Labels: Commercial Site Lights, Hotel Landscape Lighting, Houston Texas Contractors, Outdoor Architectural Lighting
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Illuminations Lighting Design is the only “One Stop” destination for lighting design, engineering and installation in the state of Texas, and remains unrivaled by any lighting firm in the United States. As homes grow larger and needs become more complex, having a single resource provides home owners with peace of mind. This translates into a smoother process, reduced costs and a better product.
Like fine wine, Illuminations has matured and become a classic for those clients with a discriminating palate for comfort, mood and ambiance.Labels: Home and Garden Landscape Lighting, Houston Texas Contractors, Lighting and Home Automation, Lighting Feed
 Houston residential neighborhoods are constantly growing and expanding. As more and more people flock to this highly populated region, the need to stand out from the crowd becomes a vital necessity. Homeowners love to showcase their abodes every chance they get, but no residence can stand on its own without superior home and garden lighting. Home and garden features, such as flowerbeds, trees, and decks deserve attention. Having the proper type of landscape illumination in place is a great way to impress onlookers. The interior of your Houston residence should not go unnoticed either. Installing the right kind of light fixtures can make all the difference between an ordinary space and one that shines above the rest.
Illuminations Lighting Design has over 25 years of experience in home and garden lighting design. Our services include installation, maintenance, audio video, and residential automation. We also specialize in home and garden lighting, mood illumination, along with architectural design to give your abode the most brilliant look possible.Our Houston experts will work in conjunction with interior designers, architects, custom home builders, and residents to achieve the highest quality of home and garden illumination in any given space. Your Houston home and garden theme should always take all features into consideration. The exterior of your home is what people see first, and will give them that lasting first impression. Your outdoor space should bring forth color, as well as joy, even after the sun goes down. ILD professionals can perfect your beautiful Houston home and garden by properly installing state of the art lighting fixtures around your property.Our lighting professionals install all outdoor fixtures in a safe, efficient manner. A site plan will be drawn up for your Houston residence, highlighting areas such as trees, water features, as well as flowerbeds, which will play a role in the design itself. A CAD drawing will further enhance where your design is going by numbering home and garden lighting fixtures by location, size, and wattage.When installing lights near your Houston home and garden, our experts will use the appropriate safety measures. Climbers use ropes and ladders when mounting light fixtures onto trees. In addition, stainless steel bolts are used to mount the lights, so that tree growth and expansion are not affected. Houston homeowners can expect a professional landscape crew of installers who know their tools, and how to harness the light to maximize your visual experience during the evening hours. Our landscape crew is experienced in all forms of outdoor home and garden lighting. Whether the job requires simple low voltage systems or high tech mercury vapor systems, all of your Houston home and garden lighting needs will be met.Once you have your outdoor landscape squared away, please invite us into your abode for a full illumination makeover. Every Houston residence has its treasures, and we want to help you show off everything you own. Our interior lighting fixtures are designed with one thing in mind: perfection. Residential automation fixtures and lighting control devices can set a mood in every room, while controlling key aspects such as light level, security systems, and even temperature! Other fixtures, such as the Phantom Contour Projector, will bring all of your works of art to life. No job is too big for us too handle, and in Houston the bigger the better.Illuminations Lighting Design wants to give Houston residents the perfect place to live. Our experience in home and garden lighting will thrust your abode into the spotlight of divine elegance. Floral colors only seen by daylight can now be enjoyed during the evening hours, when you are hosting that special get together. Your guests will also be overwhelmed by your beautiful interior under our state of the art light fixtures. ILD’s home and garden lighting will showcase all the hidden beauty within your Houston residence, and get the new neighbors talking about how to compete with your innovative design. Labels: Home and Garden Landscape Lighting, houston landscape lighting, Houston Texas Contractors, outdoor lighting maintenance
Fine Art Lighting brings out the hidden value that lies dormant in so many older works of art, and it adds value to rare, expensive, and original pieces that deserve a spotlight of their own. The importance of choosing the right lighting for your fine art cannot be emphasized enough, and making the wrong choices could diminish the appearance of your most prized paintings or even worse inadvertently damage certain oils and canvases. For this reason, Illuminations Lighting and Design heads up a team of specialists whose training and experience guide commercial and individual clients into making the best investments possible in fine art lighting and design. Houston art galleries and Texas homeowners alike come to us when they need someone they can rely on to engineer the creative as well as the technical aspects of their new lighting layout.
When you call Illuminations Lighting and Design for fine art lights and design services, we immediately begin with a personal, in-house consultation focused on getting a feel for your aesthetic taste and determining key technical details such as fixture size, lamp wattage, and fine art lighting placement relative to your art design theme. We also take careful note of the genres, nature, and sizes of your individual works of art so we can develop an overall theme that highlights individual specifics within a unified field of illumination. If you decorate shelves, bookcases, and tables with sculpture, we can customize our patented framing projectors to light these objects along with your fine art. Our proprietary techniques enable us to illuminate paintings, sculptures, and other items without glare or spill light. Over the years, our experience serving collectors of Chagall, Picasso, Matisse, Renoir, Rockwell, Dali, and Rembrandt has honed our skills in lighting fine art to pinpoint technical accuracy and made us adept in an aesthetic realm that most technical companies fear to approach. What we learn in our first consultation helps us to then form a detailed technical plan to make your fine art lighting dreams a reality. One of the many benefits you can count on when you choose ILD is the many distributor relationships we hold with the world’s top fine art light manufacturers. These relationships give you the added value of having your consulting team also serve as your vendor, thus eliminating the need for multiple sources and complicated purchasing procedures. Our knowledge of fine art lighting fixtures has developed through years of hands-on experience working with everything from low voltage accent lights for fine art to complex Wendelighting™ optical projectors. Most importantly, as your vendor we will be qualified to install new components for you any time you add work to your collection that requires a lighting upgrade.
Give us a call today to get started on bringing the best look to your investments with fine art lighting materials and creative strategies. Watch your home add sophistication to comfort by choosing Texas’s best experts as your one-shop solution for new ideas and new realities in light. Labels: Custom Art Lights, Fine art lighting, High-End Lighting, Interior Accent Lighting
 Illuminations Lighting and Design delivers specific audiovisual services combined with the latest strategies and controls for home automation technology. ILD’s trained and fully certified staff consults extensively with homeowners to determine key areas of need and entertainment preference. After developing a customized procurement list from the world’s top manufacturers, our audiovisual services team layout a plan of action that unfolds step by step into an audiovisual solution unparalleled in its ability to meet every detail of client need and desire. We build our audiovisual service methodology around four key areas of home automation that not only deliver the very best in video output and sound like you’ve never heard before, but that also integrate seamlessly into centralized computer control and user-friendly access to a whole-house living experience.
The goal of our audiovisual services team is to accommodate the highly American (and especially Texan) high expectations of personal space and freedom. Even when relaxing with family at home, people often separate and claim their own personal spots. Families with children often observe new territorial boundaries established and renegotiated daily between growing siblings. Servicing the audiovisual needs of the average family requires innovative thinking and design strategies to say the least. Our audiovisual services team therefore plans from the beginning to deliver an equal level of sound and video quality throughout the entire structure. Once installed, the new audiovisual system can deliver an equal level of superior entertainment to both private bedrooms and spacious living areas all under master control.
Audiovisual services specialists deliver and regulate sound distribution throughout the home automation network with a series of touch panels and keypads that regulate every subtlety of music. Our systems are fully digital and employ technologies from audio giants such as Boston Acoustics, Triad, Vienna, AMX, and Niles, just to name some. Our audiovisual services include all electrical remodeling and cabling required to fully integrate your new entertainment experience with both existing home wiring and new home automation. The multiple certifications and cross-disciplinary experience our audiovisual services team brings to your table ensures safe operation and aesthetically pleasing, easy to use controls that require little, if any, maintenance and support. With keypads, touch panels, IR and remote controls designed with a sheik appearance equivalent to technical delivery power, clients can enjoy a home theatre and stereo experience that not only looks good on the flat screen and sounds like nothing else on the speakers, but they can also count on the equipment that runs the show to blend beautifully into the home’s architecture and decorum.
ILD’s audiovisual service professionals strive to create a home theatre experience that surpasses that of the largest and most sophisticated movie houses. With dedicated surround sound solutions, we can deliver audio feeds straight from the DVD to every corner of the home with full Hollywood sound effects customized to the acoustics of your homes unique design. Our home automation specialists will then take the experience to a whole new level, tying lighting control into audiovisual control and allowing hosts to either dim or increase lighting levels to provide an optimized audiovisual environment specific to the tastes of those gathered. No movie theatre can do that. Illuminations Lighting and Design can.
Call ILD today to talk to an audiovisual specialist and start planning a home theatre experience that will exceed your expectations and dazzle the minds of your friends and family. Labels: Audio Video Employment, Home Theater Experience, Houston Texas Contractors, Lighting and Home Automation
 Every house in Texas has light, but few houses have lighting designs that add aesthetic preeminence to the physical dwelling itself. The universal nature and psychological power of light make it the most effective decorative element available to man when layered proportional to architecture, landscaping, and indigenous vegetation surrounding the residence. The complexity of truly impeccable house lighting requires a level of expertise and sophistication simply not available through retail channels or online superstores that push bargain products without any corresponding design or installation services. However, when installed correctly by a professional firm such as Illuminations Lighting and Design, fixtures remain hidden and glare disappears altogether. All that remains is a house enveloped by light as if magically illuminated from a powerful, unseen source.
The term house lighting differentiates from home lighting by referencing proprietary methods of architectural and landscape lighting that distinguish and compliment the physical structure of the house and the aesthetic elements of the surrounding property. Because our team cross trains and partners with a number of architectural and landscaping firms, we are able to synthesize outdoor lighting elements with architectural lighting themes so that every aspect of our design points at least a portion of the light back toward the house itself—making it appear the central, dominant feature of the landscape.
The architecture of a house distinguishes it as a unique residence of a distinctive individual style, design, and nature. Because of this fact, effective architectural house lighting constitutes an absolute design requirement upon whose quality the success of the entire project depends. To meet this challenge, we position special fixtures at key points on roofs and along walls so as to keep them hidden from viewers on the ground. We utilize advanced CAD software that enables us to customize beam spread and “wash” the entire surface of the house in light. We then accentuate gables, window shutters, balconies, and ornamental fixtures with additional uplighting or downlighting fixtures that add a second, more prominent layer of light in select places. Many custom home clients have remarked that from a distance their house now appears to be almost made out of light.
We then compliment the lighting of the house with additional layers of illumination positioned and distributed throughout the property. One of the many ways we do this is to turn darkness into a servant of light by creating moon shadow effects on the ground. Mercury vapor lights carefully concealed in trees cast pools of light downward onto the earth so as to combine soft light with shadow and to form moving patterns that enhance vegetation, water features, pathways, patios, porticos, and Southern-style porches. We can then add accent lighting to landscape and house lighting by giving extra emphasis to decorative elements that homeowners most desire to showcase, bringing out the rich color and texture of outdoor sculptures and structures and making the greenery, garden, and resident water features clearly visible at any hour of the night.
As every house and yard require a clear sense of boundary to set themselves apart from neighboring properties, tree canopy lighting envelops the entire perimeter of the property in an intimate circle of illumination that delineates the property line, highlights the wood and foliage of the trees, and balances the house light with outdoor lights that work toward completing the project with a unified theme. Up lights positioned on the ground shine illumination onto branches and leaves above with beam-spread proportional to tree growth, age, degree of foliage, and general form. This helps make the illuminated house appear in harmony with nature. Further harmony develops by lighting the larger trees (if present) that stand next the house itself and partly overshadow the roof. With a combination of up lighting and down lighting, trees immediately adjacent to homes can dual function as decorated compliments to building style and simultaneously house mercury vapor lights that scatter moon shadow movements along hedges and flowerbeds next to the walls.
Our award-winning professionals have worked for many years throughout Houston and greater Texas in all of our city’s most exclusive neighborhoods. Knowing that every home is a homeowner’s castle regardless of size, we have made it a point to develop custom solutions for every home—not just homes classified as custom. Call Illuminations today to see what we can do to make your home a world of light that enhance your lifestyle with satisfaction and sophistication.Labels: Architectural Lighting Houston Texas, Houston Texas Contractors, Moonlighting, Outdoor Architectural Lighting
 Apenas pues la diapositiva más dévil nos enseñó que hay más a encenderse que simplemente ENCENDIDO o APAGADO, las iluminaciones que encendían diseño han demostrado a mundo la variación sin fin, los espectros encantadores, las gradaciones infinitas de la luz que se pueden pintar a través de la lona ancha que estira entre la noche y el día.Comenzó como idea simple sobre almuerzo, y se desarrolló en una de buscado después y de la mayoría de las firmas residenciales reconocidas del diseño de la iluminación en el país. Tom Kretzschmar y Jim Stephens cruzaron las trayectorias sobre hace veinte años en una compañía que se especializó en arte de la multa de la iluminación. Después de trabajar juntos por varios meses, comenzaron a tener conversaciones sobre cómo la iluminación del arte se podría combinar con contraer eléctrico para traer el placer del diseño sofisticado de la iluminación al dueño de una casa medio.
Estas discusiones emergieron de sus fondos diversos, aunque complementarios en la iluminación e ingeniería eléctrica. Stephens enseñó diseño de teatro de la iluminación en la universidad de Syracuse antes de venir al teatro famoso del callejón del mundo de Houston como diseñador residente de la iluminación. La historia de Kretzschmar va de nuevo a una de las firmas eléctricas más viejas y más prominentes de Tejas', Rulon eléctrico, que su abuelo fundó. De estas raíces, una sinergia fue formada, y las iluminaciones que encendían el diseño soltado adelante.
Está uno un diseño típico de las iluminaciones donde cada pintura, armoire, sconce de la pared, chandelier, trabajos ahuecados de la luz y de la luz del paisaje en la armonía para crear un ambiente agradable, funcional y que estimula. Bastante flexible adaptarse a tus necesidades diarias, con todo bastante sensible de fijar el humor más delicado.
La pasión para la perfección se ha convertido en un apoyo principal del nombre de las iluminaciones. Encenderte por la luz, alambre por el alambre, casas a través del país mano-están siendo cabidos con los accesorios de la iluminación de la calidad, los sistemas de control de la iluminación, los sistemas caseros de la automatización y el equipo de la iluminación del paisaje por los artesanos expertos de las iluminaciones que encienden diseño. Apenas pues el interruptor más dévil nos enseñó que hay más a encenderse que simplemente ENCENDIDO o APAGADO, las iluminaciones han demostrado a mundo la variación sin fin, los espectros encantadores, las gradaciones infinitas de la luz que se pueden pintar a través de la lona ancha que estira entre la noche y el día.
Desde su inicio serendipitous, las iluminaciones han venido incluyen a un equipo de sobre 50 talentosos y a empleados dedicados. Kretzschmar permanece en el timón y Stephens ha facilitado en el retiro después de 27 años de servicio. Las divisiones de la especialidad se han creado para centrarse en las disciplinas tales como diseño de la iluminación, contraer eléctrico, la iluminación del paisaje y la automatización casera. Teniendo especialistas en cada uno de estas disciplinas, mientras que verdad restante a la misión de dueños caseros de ofrecimiento el “cuadro completo” del diseño de la iluminación, es dominante al éxito continuado en encenderse de las iluminaciones.
Las iluminaciones que encienden diseño son la única destinación de “una parada” para el diseño, la ingeniería y la instalación de la iluminación en el estado de Tejas, y el restos unrivaled por cualquier firma de la iluminación en los Estados Unidos. Mientras que los hogares crecen más grandes y las necesidades llegan a ser más complejas, tener un solo recurso provee de los dueños caseros la paz de la mente.
Esto traduce a un proceso más liso, a costes reducidos y a un producto mejor.Como el vino fino, las iluminaciones se han madurado y se han convertido en una obra clásica para esos clientes con un paladar discriminatorio para la comodidad, el humor y el ambiance. Labels: Compañía fina de la iluminación del arte, Encender la firma del diseño, Iluminación del paisaje de Houston
 Once again, Illuminations Lighting Design is a proud sponsor of the 12th Annual Bellaire Fun Run.
The Bellaire Fall Fever 5K Fun Run/Walk and the Children's One-Mile Race will take place in dowtown Bellaire on Saturday, September 15, 2007 . The event is organized by the Alumni and Friends of Bellaire High School, a non-profit organization. The race benefits Bellaire High School Student Scholarships. Illuminations Lighting Design is a proud to be a continuing sponsor of the 12th Annual Bellaire 5K Fun Run.
The Alumni and Friends of Bellaire High School (AFBHS) is a nonprofit organization which was formed in August 1993. The organization is composed of non-paid volunteers gathered to help maintain the national standards for which Bellaire High School is known. These volunteers contribute their time, energy and support to the organization. AFBHS is supported primarily by raising funds from alumni, friends and community businesses. Our goals are to raise money for student scholarships, teacher grants, and school improvements. To date, we have raised over $400,000 for Bellaire High School. Contributions to Bellaire High School Alumni and Friends assists the organization in providing yearly student scholarships, yearly teacher grants and funding for school improvements. Your contribution is greatly appreciated. AFBHS is a 501C(3) charity. If you shop at Randalls or Kroger, you can donate to AFBHS.
Randalls Shoppers
Use your Remarkable Card and provide the cashier with the number 963, AFBHS will be given a percentage of your total purchase.
Kroger Shoppers
If you shop at Kroger, please call AFBHS at 281-563-8247 and we will send you a Kroger Shopping Card. When you call, please leave your name, address, and let us know that you would like us to send you the Kroger card. We will get it in the mail right away. By using these cards, you can help AFBHS send students to college.
Subway Sandwiches
Subway sandwiches are sold at Bellaire High School on Monday's during lunch. A percentage of the profit is donated to AFBHS. AFBHS in turn gives the profit to any club that has registered their name in the Subway can located in the main office.
For more information or sponsorships, please call Becky Phillips at 713-661-6559. I encourage you to support Bellaire High School by making a donation today! Labels: Bellaire High School, Houston Texas Contractors, ILD Supports Friends of Bellaire High School
Iluminaciones que se encienden y posibilidades de empleo de las ofertas del diseño para técnicos de Houston, Tejas con habilidades excepcionales en comunicaciones, capacidad creativa magnífica del diseño, y conocimiento de informática demostrable. Desemejante de la proveer de personal-agencia o del empleo temporal en Houston, TX, ILD recluta y los hires dirigen. Como un eléctrico multidisciplinario, encenderse, y firma que consulta de la automatización casera, las iluminaciones que encienden diseño se convierten iluminación altamente individualizada, de encargo, diseño eléctrico, y los sistemas caseros de la automatización para los clientes residenciales y comerciales del upscale a través de Houston, Tejas. Las posibilidades de empleo existen actualmente en cada uno de nuestras cinco disciplinas importantes. Somos una organización excepcional que mira para agregar al personal impecable que se convertirá dentro de nuestro equipo y trabajo más último para desarrollar a nuestro equipo.
El candidato ideal debe proyectar una imagen altamente profesional y un aspecto agudo. Porque trabajamos en las vecindades más exclusivas y alrededor de Houston, Tejas, el empleo con ILD lleva con él la responsabilidad de representar nuestro nivel de la excelencia, del profesionalismo, y del buen gusto siempre. Sobre los años, hemos ganado una reputación como compañía que de cerca los socios con sus clientes, el convertirse de las firmas que consultan confiadas en de Houston, TX. El empleo con nuestra compañía requiere habilidades que escuchan afiladas, así como la capacidad de comunicar conocimiento técnico a nuestros clientes en una manera cortesana y comprensible. Como compañía dedicada a nuestra ciudad y a su gente, preferimos ofrecer el empleo a los residentes de Houston, de Tejas y de los alrededores. Estos candidatos deben ser gente del carácter sin historia criminal, viviendo una forma de vida de la droga libremente, y deben también poder probar ciudadanía de los E.E.U.U. Requerimos a todos los empleados llevar una licencia de conductor válida de Tejas.
Miramos actualmente para llenar posiciones en cada uno de las cinco disciplinas principales que constituyen nuestra lista del servicio. El conocimiento del producto de los fabricantes importantes específicos a cada disciplina es indispensable para el empleo en nuestra Houston, jefaturas de TX. Las descripciones de la categoría de Summative de oportunidades generales siguen:
Encender a candidatos del diseño y de la consulta a esta división debe poseer el conocimiento cuidadoso de la fabricación de la iluminación y demostrar la aptitud afilada para diseñar interior. Encendiendo diseño los consultores instalan los sistemas de iluminación decorativos y orientados a la función para los clientes residenciales y comerciales.
El diseño de la iluminación del paisaje y la experiencia de la instalación en o el conocimiento de la arquitectura y del diseño del edificio es definidos más. Los especialistas de la iluminación del paisaje crean efectos de iluminación acodados magníficos alrededor de características ajardinadas importantes, de decoraciones al aire libre, y de árboles indígenas y de vida de planta.
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