Illuminations Lighting and Design offers the Houston Home Construction company a subcontract resource in home wiring, home controls, and home lighting that is multi-dimensional and multi-specialized across the board. Working with ILD can make both the architect’s and the general contractor’s job much easier, because there are several things we can do under their invoice that can fulfill the most robust demands of the particular and eclectic Houston homeowner.
Houston Home Construction Companies can subcontract ILD for advanced electrical wiring services.
Custom homes normally feature very spacious floor plans and ornate interior lighting designs. They also tend to house very expensive audio-visual equipment and top-of-the-line appliances. This equipment requires dedicated circuits be installed in order to power and protect it from power fluctuations and surges. Home theater and whole house audio, for example, are rising in popularity and require both dedicated circuits and sophisticated controls to operate. The best time to install these systems and control is when the new home is built. Many residents also want to have Lutron lighting controls and home automation networks installed in their new home when it is built. Houston construction companies can bring in our new home wiring and home automation team for any and all of these projects.
Houston Home Construction Companies can contact ILD to install sophisticated power protection and backup systems.
Houston home construction companies must safeguard electrical components and lighting equipment with backup power systems that will not only protect home equipment in the event of a power failure, but also maintain basic home functionality in the time of a crisis. Whole house surge suppression is the homeowner’s best line of defense against power surges. It will protect the circuit panel and the interior wiring from overload in the event of a power surge. If the entire neighborhood suffers from a blackout, the home needs a second line of defense—the electrical generator. We install any number of electrical generator types and sizes in new homes that will power a portion of the home or even the entire home itself for a reasonable period of time until inclement weather passes or the municipal power grid is restored.
ILD partners with Houston Home construction companies to give the builder’s clientele the very best interior lighting systems possible.
Custom home owners choose the very best floor plans in order to live the most eclectic and personalized lifestyles possible. The home is a sacred retreat from the traffic jams and busy pace of Houston office life and therefore very much a personal, private space. Home construction companies may contract ILD to design and install house lighting systems that make both the exterior of the house and the interior of the living space shine with a light that is special and unique to the lifestyle of the homeowner. Our access to all types of specification grade fixtures, along with proprietary art lighting and display lighting fixtures, makes us a one-stop resource for any Houston home construction company or interior design firm that is called upon to develop a new living experience with light.
ILD will integrate and/or automate home systems at the request of the construction company.
As the complexity of new home architecture increase, the many subsystems that make a house into a home require both more advanced controls and more integrated functionality. For example, a whole house audio system needs to be connected to a network that will not only control the choice, distribution, and volume for the music, but will also create complimentary lighting that compliments the mood and tempo of the selection. This is tantamount to a technological integration of sensory experience that requires sophisticated lighting and home theater control systems to be installed and wired properly. Many homeowners would rather minimum of automation for these controls, choosing to rely upon manual controls to choose their own system settings. Still others prefer that their home construction company build their residence with as much automation as possible. In either case, ILD home system integration experts can fulfill these requirements under the umbrella of the general contractor.
Houston landscapers and construction companies can come to ILD for advanced and cost effective Landscape Lighting Design.
The architecture of most custom homes is very ornate and often reminiscent of earlier historical periods and/or classic motifs. Ideally, the surrounding property this architectural uniqueness as much as possible, and it should strive to unify the presentation of the dwelling with the geometry, balance, and aesthetics of Nature itself. Lighting is essential to creating this unity, as house lights and landscape lights can be balanced and timed in such a way as to create an outdoor living experience equivalent to that within the home. Houston home construction companies who are building new houses on large lots are encouraged to consider our landscape lighting services as a finishing touch to architecture, wiring, and home lighting customization.
Proven Success
For 27 years now, ILD has worked with Houston home construction companies and home remodeling firms to help the custom homeowner enjoy the most technologically sound and aesthetically pleasing home lighting and control systems possible. Our staff has been cross trained in landscaping, art theory, interior design, and basic principles of architecture and is intended to function hand in glove with the general contract invoice any Houston home construction firm. Call us 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.
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We are in the process of designing a swimming pool and wanted to do something a little out of the ordinary with the lighting. My pool and lighting contractor has suggested we consider fiber optic lighting as well as LED lighting fixtures. What are your thoughts on these light sources?
The lighting designers at Illuminations Lighting Design welcome opportunities to step outside the box and create new and unique lighting effects. Certainly, fiber optic lighting is an excellent way to border the pool under the coping as well as illuminate any water features that you are considering. We recently completed a swimming pool project that incorporated fiber opting lighting and extensive outdoor landscape lighting.
We used side emitting fiber optic lighting under the pool coping to follow the contour of the pool edge that changed colors. The built-in color wheel allowed the client to vary the colors or select one particular color depending on his mood. Because the fiber optic light originates from a remote box, it's fairly easy to maintain and requires very little landscape lighting maintenance.
In the fountain area, we introduced aeration or bubbles into the jet nozzles. The aeration is what reflects the light and shows off the colors. Clear water does not accept lighting as well and is much less effective.
LED pool lighting is becoming quite popular. New retrofit LED lamps are showing up as an alternative to standard incandescent pool lights. These new LED lamps provide color options and have tremendous lamp life in excess of 50,000 hours.
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.
Contact us today 800-863-1184 for a complimentary lighting consultation or just to provide you some lighting information. We would be delighted to assist you.
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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.
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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.
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.
Home and garden features, such as flowerbeds, trees, and decks deserve attention. Having the proper type of
ILD professionals can perfect your beautiful Houston home and garden by properly installing state of the art lighting fixtures around your property.
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.
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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.
When installing lights near your
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.
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
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.
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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 713-863-1133 or request a lighting design consultation to determine what exactly we can do for you.
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It can be difficult in today's construction environment to find a qualified electrician who specializes in high end residential homes. That's because most electricians jump between companies and never really find a home or build a loyal following of clients that they serve. At Illuminations Lighting Design we consider our electrical staff to be like family and work with them to develop long term careers here at Illuminations. We have electricians you can depend on, not only for their expertise, but also for their utmost professionalism and respect for your home. We welcome the opportunity to serve you.
Today's custom homes can take many, many months, often even years, to complete construction. When you've invested that much time, effort, and money in your home, you need to be assured that your construction team is there for the duration. The last thing you want to be worrying about is finding a replacement electrician because the other guy didn't show up, went out of business - you name it! After all, this guy knows where the wires are run, how to get from point A to point B and how to quickly fix a problem when it occurs.
Having been in business for over 25 years, one of the hallmarks of Illuminations Lighting Design is the ability to find and keep quality residential electricians who are familiar with the latest equipment, light fixtures, building techniques and electrical codes. Our electricians will be there to serve you from day one through the life of your home. Our workers are polite, courteous and will respect your privacy and belongings. They are even available for special events such as parties, where it would be a disaster if something went wrong, or the power went out. What's a party without the Margarita machine!
Our electricians are trained to work on any project from a simple faulty switch to the city's most high-end lighting, control systems and electrical systems. And the job need not be new construction, or whole house. Much of our work involves enhancing existing homes. They are skilled at adding lighting fixtures in finished rooms, often without having to cut the ceiling. Read what people have to say about us!
Sometimes you may not even be having an electrical issue - often a fine tuning of your existing lighting can bring your space to life in a way you'd never imagined. Our service teams are available to aim adjustable accent lights, accounting for beam spread, lensing, and aiming angle so that your home, artwork, and furnishings are perfectly illuminated.
All our electricians are licensed in the State of Texas, Houston, surrounding communities and the villages around the city of Houston, under the supervision of Louis Torregrossa, Master Electrician. Our crews, consisting of a Journeyman and helper, have the support and depth to handle just about any situation or electrical emergency that you might have.
Illuminations Lighting Design is a full service design build firm specializing in residential and commercial indoor lighting and outdoor lighting installation, service and maintenance as well as home automation, home theaters and lighting control systems. For more information we can be reached locally at 713-863-1133 or toll free at 800-863-1184.
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Founded by Tom Kretzschmar and Jim Stephens back in 1980, Illuminations Lighting Design was formed as a subsidiary of Rulon Electric Company to focus on the art of lighting.
Tom became interested in the idea of specialty lighting and saw its potential in the Houston area, especially among customers of the family business. His grandfather, Eldred Otis Rulon, at the end of World War II, started the electrical service company that bears his name, catering to the city's upper economic echelon. Tom's father, Gary, who had married Otis's daughter, May Lee, was eventually handed the reigns of the business and set it on a path of aggressive growth.
After attending Southwest Texas State University and joining the family business, he met Jim Stephens who also had an interest in lighting. Stephens had taught theatrical lighting design at Syracuse University and later was head lighting designer at the famous Alley Theater in Houston. After his career with the Alley, he and Kretzschmar teamed up to created what is now know today as Illuminations Lighting Design.
As a unique two man team, Tom and Jim, quickly honed their skills and created a growing list of loyal clients who appreciated their passion for lighting. Interestingly, twenty five years later, with a staff of 45, Illuminations Lighting Design is still the only game in town doing what is does and is the largest as well. This includes almost everything related to lighting, encompassing consulting, designing, installations, sales and maintenance for interior, exterior landscape lighting as well as home automation services.
To continue the dream and expand the company services, new design and engineering talent has been added to the war chest of talent at Illuminations. Rick Luberger heads the Landscape Lighting division of the company. Louis Torregrossa, master electrician, heads the Electrical Division of the firm. Tom Kretzschmar continues to be a driving force behind the synergy of talent and maintain contact with their precious list of loyal customers.
Illuminations Lighting Design has evolved into a "one stop shop" for everything electrical in your home or office. Our clients live mostly in River Oaks, West University and Memorial and a few other upper end neighborhoods. They also extend to commercial developments and private homes such as Wyoming ranches, Colorado resorts, New Mexico retreats, Oklahoma mansions, Louisiana plantations, and New York lofts to name a few.
For more information regarding the services from Illuminations Lighting Design, visit our web site at www.illuminationslighting.com or contact us toll free at 800-863-1184.
Join us in celebrating our 25th year of business by viewing our Client Testimonials to see what people are saying about our services. Like music, lighting sets the mood!
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It's never really too early to contact a lighting designer, though it can be too late. Ideally a lighting designer should be brought in as a part of the team during Schematic Design. The client, architect and/or interior designer should have the basic layout and design of the project in plan so that the feel, needs, scope, and challenges of the project can be communicated throughout the design team. By being brought in before Design Development continues, the lighting designer will be able to make suggestions about the architecture that may affect or aid the lighting and will also be able to consult in designing architectural lighting details.
The earlier you bring a home lighting consultant in on your design meetings, the more integrated with the architecture the lighting is able to be. The later you bring the consultant in, the more the lighting system will look and act like an afterthought and the more the design will be compromised. This also holds true with outdoor landscape lighting design.
For more information regarding LIGHTING DESIGN SERVICES please contact TOM KRETZSCHMAR at 713-863-1133 or toll free at 800-863-1184.
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