Houston Outdoor Lighting, Indoor Art Lights, Landscape Lighting Designs, Home Automation Blog

Tuesday, December 08, 2009

Lighting Design & Electrical Contracting

A typical Illuminations design is one where every painting, armoire, wall sconce, chandelier, recessed light and landscape light works in harmony to create a pleasant, functional and stimulating environment. Flexible enough to adapt to your daily needs, yet sensitive enough to set the most delicate mood.

Residential Lighting Design & Consultation
Lighting has the unique ability to reveal the world around us, shaping our vision and determining both the beauty and function of our surroundings. Illumination can sculpt spaces and create an infinite palette of different moods, but it can also render a space flat, harsh and uninviting if not applied with thought, care and knowledge. The experienced lighting designers and lighting consultants of Illuminations Lighting Design understand this elusive science. They also know their tools--the world's best lighting products--and how to effectively harness them.

Did you know we do lighting design and lighting installation professional in the following major cities in Texas?
Austin Texas Lighting Design

Houston Texas Lighting Design

San Antonio Texas Lighting Design

Beaumont Texas Lighting Design

Landscape Lighting Services
If you have invested considerable energy into your outdoor spaces, you certainly will not want to leave them in the dark half of the year. Landscape and Outdoor Garden Lighting allows you to reap a full return on your investment. By highlighting unique architectural features of your building or home, as well as natural textures such as trees, ponds or shrubs, your outdoor spaces will find a second life beneath the moonlight.

Are you looking for landscape lighting design and installation firm in one of the following major Texas cities?
Austin Texas Outdoor Landscape Lighting

Houston Texas Landscape Lighting Design

San Antonio Outdoor Landscape Lighting Designs

Beaumont Landscape Lighting Services

Fine Art & Display LightingServices
Illuminations Lighting Design is a premier fine art lighting company in Houston Texas. We have consulted and lighted some of the world’s most prestigious public and private art collections including works from renowned artists such as Chagall, Picasso, Matisse, Renoir, Rockwell, Salvador Dali and Rembrandt. Employing the most innovative artwork lighting techniques in the world, we can assure you that your treasured pieces will shine as brightly as the artist’s true vision. Fine art lighting services from ILD are second to none.

Are you looking for fine art lighting design and installation company in one of the following major Texas cities?
Austin Texas Art Lighting Design

Beaumont Art Lighting Contractor

Houston Fine Art Lighting Design

San Antonio Fine Art Lighting Design

Residential Electrical Contractors
ILD electrical contracting and electrical services are provided by licensed professionals that understand the importance of working in conjunction with the design team. This ensures that all aspects of indoor illumination, home automation and landscape lighting will have the electrical power needed to function properly and safely. Illuminations Lighting electricians and new home wiring teams get the job done right the first time, allowing you to focus on more important matters—like enjoying your stunning lighting design and automation.

We invite you to contact us at 713-863-1133 or visit us online using our handy request design consultation form. Each area of service is staffed with outstanding experts that understand the impact their efforts have on your home. No other lighting firm is able to provide such a well-rounded service line or a more informative Lighting & Home Automation Blog to our clientele. But do not just take our word for it. Just ask Lance Armstrong, George W. Bush, or dozens of other commercial lighting clients or residential lighting clients, large and small, across the great State of Texas who have enjoyed our lighting services.

Labels: Austin Texas Lighting, Beaumont Texas Lighting, Commercial Lighting Designers, Houston Texas Lighting Designers, Residential Lighting Consultants

Saturday, November 01, 2008

Residential Kitchen Lighting Plans

Kitchen lighting plans are typically designed for functionality and use of space.
Food preparation requires better than average visibility and color rendering. The condition of food itself is indicated by its firmness and its color, so it is always best to have your kitchen lighting plan designed with specification grade fixtures capable of differentiating both colors and shades of colors. The popular retail fluorescent lights that save energy so will probably not light your tomatoes quiet as effectively as other lamping options available through professional lighting design services like ILD. Getting assistance from a lighting consulting firm with experience in architectural theory can help you develop a better general lighting plan for your kitchen that involves alternatives to the panel overhead lights found in many homes. Energy saving recessed lights can be installed in configurations that pool the light around areas like the sink where people spend a great deal of time.

Special kitchen features like islands often present challenging spaces for the homeowner to light.
This may sound odd at face value. You think of an island as a simple surface that simply needs a bright to illuminate its surface. In actuality, this creates two problems in planning home lighting. If the surface of the island contains any shiny material, reflective glare will result. Light that is not directed at just the right angle will also cast unattractive shadows on the floor. To more effectively light such a structure, you may need special lower level pendant lights suspended at just the right height above the island surface. Custom home lighting planners with companies like ILD can help you choose from literally thousands of fixture styles ranging from traditional to highly contemporary. This way, a fixture that stands out prominently still blends into the general plan and decorum of your kitchen.

We also recommend that you have Lutron dimmer controls installed with your kitchen lighting as well. This will allow you to manipulate these various fixtures to create different layers of light and vary kitchen lighting levels for different plans and events. Dimmers are also a great energy saving tool and should always be considered as a better, more effective alternative to generic fluorescent lights in Houston home construction.

Undercabinet lights are routinely used to illuminate countertops for both accent and task lighting.
Undercabinet lighting is much more than a decorative element for a kitchen lighting floor plan. A large number of homes today tend to feature very ornate counter tops made from marble and granite. Fluorescent kitchen lights and pucks do not always work so well with these surfaces. Some fluorescents cannot be dimmed, so they do not work well with kitchen lighting plans configured with lighting control systems. Puck lights have their drawbacks too, chief of which tends to be the tendency to cast “white spots” on the surface below them. Houston Texas lighting planners will often advise you to replace these kitchen lights with dimmable linear strip lights made with built-in glare shields. This eliminates unattractive elements from your cabinet area, and it improves cost efficiency with a more controllable, low-key light source.

Contact us locally at 713-863-1133 or toll free at 800-863-1184 today to talk about your next project. Illuminations Lighting Design is a full service design build firm specializing in residential and commercial indoor lighting and outdoor lighting, electrical service and maintenance as well as home automation, home theaters, emergency generators, surge protection systems, phone systems and lighting control systems.

We are located in Houston Texas but provide photometric lighting design services in Austin TX, El Paso Texas, San Antonio TX, College Station Texas, Beaumont TX, Dallas Texas, Midland Tx and points beyond.

Labels: Austin Texas Lighting, Beaumont Texas Lighting, Kitchen Lighting Plans, Planning Home Lighting Designs, Residential Lighting Houston Texas

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Beaumont Residents - Are You Looking for Fine Art Lighting, Cabinet Lighting, Landscape Lighting or Home Automation?

In many Beaumont Texas fine homes and commercial offices, LIGHT is understood as something purely functional. Rarely do people think of it as a decorative element. Beaumont lighting can be more than utilitarian—it can be theater and art. How an object is illuminated is just as important as what is being focused upon. This is what makes Illuminations Lighting Design unique. We combine practical experience with aesthetic taste to light the stage of your everyday experience. When it comes to your home or business, why settle for anything less?

Illuminations Lighting Design (ILD) has provided streamlined solutions for Texas home and business owners for over 28 years. Our main areas of focus include interior lighting design, landscape lighting, fine art and picture lighting, home/commercial automation and media, as well as general electrical contracting. Because we offer a full range of services, we can meet virtually any electrical and lighting needs a Beaumont company or residential neighborhood might encounter.

No project is too narrow, or too broad.

Interior/Indoor Lighting Design & Consultation Services to Beaumont
Illuminations Lighting Design’s signature design is a space where every lantern, sconce, chandelier, up-light and down light balances a room for its precise intent. Using sophisticated Lutron or Vantage lighting technology, we create that balanced design weeks, or even months before the fixtures arrive. When the lights go up, you will be truly amazed at how the beautiful interplay of light and shadow will make you feel at once inspired, and at ease. That is what good lighting design services are all about.

Landscape Lighting for Beaumont Front Yards and Commercial Property
If you have invested considerable energy into your outdoor spaces, you certainly will not want to leave them in the dark half of the year. Landscape and Outdoor Lighting allows Beaumont residents to reap a full return on their investment with low maintenance lighting equipment. By highlighting unique architectural features of buildings and homes, as well as natural textures such as lighting trees, ponds or shrubs, outdoor spaces find a second life beneath the moonlight.

Beaumont landscape lighting services such as lighting steps and pathways will also offer a sense of security to you, your family and guests. By choosing quality, long-lasting fixtures installed by the experienced professionals of ILD, you gain all of these benefits while avoiding the hassles of never ending maintenance fees.

Fine Art & Display Lighting to Beaumont and All of East Texas
We have consulted and lighted some of the world’s most prestigious public and private art collections including works from renowned artists such as Chagall, Picasso, Matisse, Renoir, Rockwell, Salvador Dali, and Rembrandt. Employing the most innovative art lighting company in the world, we can assure you that your treasured pieces will shine as brightly as the artist’s true vision.

Beaumont Art lighting services from ILD are second to none.

Home Automation, Lighting Controls & Home Theaters in Beaumont
Illuminations lighting brings Beaumont homeowners Indoor movie theaters that rival the real thing. Diverse “moods” are created at the click of a button, and generators that keep the power on during an outage are all a part of the services offered by ILD’s Home Lighting Control & home theater design team. This field is rapidly developing, and our professionals stay continuously abreast of the latest innovations. Let us bring your home or place of business into the 21st century with a new home theater system.

ILD electrical contracting and electrical services for Beaumont
Licensed professionals understand the importance of working in conjunction with the design team. This ensures that all aspects of indoor illumination, home automation and landscape lighting will have the electrical power needed to function properly and safely. Illuminations Lighting electricians gets the job done right the first time, allowing Beaumont companies and homeowners to focus on more important matters—like enjoying your stunning lighting design and automation.

Each of our service divisions is staffed with outstanding experts that understand the impact their efforts have on your home. No other lighting firm is able to provide such a well-rounded service line. But do not just take our word for it. Just ask our clients like Lance Armstrong, George W. Bush, Hubert Oxford or dozens of other commercial establishments or residences, large and small, across the State of Texas who have enjoyed our services.

In Texas, there is only one name for professional, functional and artistic lighting: Illuminations Lighting Design. Click here to read more.

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