What is custom home lighting?
Custom home lighting design is an eclectic, professional, and technologically sophisticated blend of art, math, and hard science. It is cost efficient and aesthetically complimentary to interior design and architecture. Custom home lighting is intended to support the many facets of daily life and entertainment. It requires sophisticated technique and superior equipment, and it is best done by licenses professionals who can handle both electrical wiring, home lighting repairs and fixture installation from an aesthetically-minded perspective. It is not something you should attempt on your own.
How important is energy efficiency?
It is extremely important in Austin home lighting designs, not only for personal financial reasons, but because of rising regulatory controls. Because some states such as California have recently banned some use of incandescent lighting, a new movement is underway to replace incandescents nationwide in anticipation of similar legislation from Coast to Coast. A good number of people are retrofitting store-bought fluorescent bulbs to lamps and overhead lights in places like the living room, bedroom, kitchen, and bathroom. These lights indeed save a lot of power and last for many years as promised, but they often fall short when it comes to matching pre-existing levels of light. Striking the right balance between cost consciousness and quality of luminance is one of the many areas of specialty we provide to our clientele in Houston Texas home lighting design.
How do you design new home lighting systems for custom houses?
We use a custom home lighting software program that allows us to conduct a scientific, photometric analysis of your home. This software also allows us to experiment with varying combinations and levels of light and render a 3D, animated movie of any hypothetical system we conceptualize. You can watch this virtual tour of your own home and foresee results prior to authorizing an installation, choose between different options, and make any changes you desire prior to signing anything.
Do you install any special effects lighting or lighting controls?
Yes. ILD is famous in Texas for combining custom home lighting design with home lighting automation and controls. With the right combination of automation and manual controls, you can have instant, one-touch access to a myriad of colors, brightness levels, and special home decorative lighting effects throughout the house.
We combine technologies to create unique atmospheres and moods in various portions of the home or office lighting designs. Layered lighting effects of this nature have a powerful effect on human emotions and can be used to set the tone for family reunions, home movies, home theater, musical enjoyment, fine art collecting, displays of collectibles, and parties. They can also set the pace for daily activities that sometimes require a bit of an emotional push to get us to do. Lighting design installations can be adjusted to create and “activity based” atmosphere conducive to doing things such as studying, home projects, repairs, and cleaning.
Is this going to require a large investment in equipment costs?
We do our best to limit the actual number of light fixtures we install. Too many visible pieces of equipment will clutter the ambiance of a room, so we custom design home lighting systems around the principles of concealment and lighting angles of incidence. Also, we use only lights that American-made, factory-grade, and backed up with written warranties from our nation’s leading manufacturers. We aim to give you the best in both design and technology so that reduced power costs and minimized replacements help recover your investment over the years to come.
Custom home lighting design starts with a simple phone call!
To get started, call us right now and request a complimentary initial consultation to assess your home’s current lighting system and see what custom design and better equipment can add to your lifestyle and peace of mind. Our lighting maintenance contracts and lighting design services will keep your home in the best light.
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Restaurant bar lighting requires focusing on a number of essential elements that come together to create an effective, appropriate sensibility for this special place within your business. Fixtures used in restaurant bar lighting need to be energy efficient and avoid filling the room with too much light. Also, a number of interior design concerns must also be considered when lighting your restaurant bar. What shape is the bar itself? What is the total square footage of the bar area? What type of clientele does the bar attract, and at what time of day?
Answering these questions first will help you determine an effective strategy for creating a truly sophisticated, unique restaurant bar lighting system that is easy to control and customize to different seasons, occasions, and groups of people. Working with a licensed, professional lighting design and electrical service firm such as ILD also helps you achieve the very best results. Firms such as ours have access not only to the full gamut of traditional lighting fixtures and high-end lighting controls, but also to specialty lighting equipment and LED technology not available on the open retail market.
Lighting Fixtures
Restaurant bar lighting fixtures can range from the simple to the ultra-modern and classically ornate. The interior architecture, design, and overall theme of the restaurant will play a big role in determining what types of fixtures you select. In most cases, restaurant bar lighting fixtures tend to output lower than normal levels of light and tend to be low voltage devices installed with the intention of reducing power costs.
ILD will design you a system that is both practical and decorative at the same time, ranging from contemporary ceiling and recessed lights for high-end facilities, pendant lights and chandeliers for refined environments, and small specialty lamps for cozy, traditional settings.
Practical Concerns
Although the styles of fixtures employed in restaurant bar lighting tend to vary a great deal, the same practical considerations have to be taken into account in virtually every facility. Down lighting is a must for both patrons and staff because it provides the most effective and even source of task light that provides enough light to see without overwhelming the eyes. Incidentally, humans need only minimal amounts of light to move around, so lights over a restaurant bar and surrounding floor space can be very Spartan in their output and still produce optimal results.
Bartenders, however, need to see to make the drinks. In order to avoid disrupting the atmosphere, our designers often install low profile under cabinet strip lights that provide bright task light for mixing drinks and washing dishes. The only light the patrons might notice coming from these fixtures is a gentle radiance that emanates from behind the counter and actually works toward contributing to the mystique environment.
Very often as well, bars will have a mirror spanning the length of the back wall. This mirror helps visually expand the environment and merchandise wine and liquor. Lighting here represents both a challenge and a very high reward if you contract a firm that has the skills necessary to angle dimmable light indirectly at the mirror so as to avoid reflecting it back into patron’s eyes.
Lighting Control
Due to the large amounts of money generated by most restaurant bars, lighting controls are strongly recommended. A trained lighting control and automation expert can assess your interior architecture, calculate the necessary luminance to adequately light all of your floor space, and program different lighting themes into a central Lutron Grafik Eye, Vantage, or AMX control unit.
These controls are extremely easy to operate from concealed touch panels or wireless hand held remotes. They will allow you to use your lighting to set the mood specific to different crowds, occasions, and seasons of the year. Everything from Happy Hour, conventions and corporate events, and personal birthday parties can be augmented and accentuated with a lighting control system by ILD.
Special Equipment and Techniques
A final advantage to consider when thinking of installing your own lighting system or hiring a lighting design firm is the access to special equipment and lighting techniques that only a professional firm can offer you. Working with a multi-specialist firm such as ILD gives you access to lighting design strategies and equipment you may not have been aware of or considered.
For example, if your restaurant has a wood structure bar on the patio, patio lights normally used in outdoor settings can also be used for overhead and accent lighting of the eaves and beams. Any number of design themes can be implemented as well; from a decorative festive look using rope lights, to a tropical island look using LED signs and decorative candles.
Keep in mind too that LED technology of any kind represents both a high-end technical advantage and a low-end cost to the restaurant owner. LED requires only 20% the electricity of incandescent lighting, and sophisticated commercial equipment like Traxon panel lights can be substituted for a back wall mirror to create a multi-colored spectrum of changing lights. Our lighting control and automation team can also synchronize these panels with music, so that when the songs change, the lights change with them.
Multi-Specialization Offers our Clients More Options
ILD has worked for 25 years to become a leader in not just one, but five major lighting design and electrical service disciplines. As a result, we can offer our clients in hospitality, high-end resort lighting, commercial lighting, bar and restaurant lighting, hotel, and residential landscape lighting more options and more equipment than retail sources can provide..
We headquarter in Houston and work throughout Texas in Austin, Texas, Beaumont, Texas, Dallas, Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, San Antonio, Texas and all surrounding areas.
Contact us now toll free at 1-800-863-1184 for a free consultation. Please visit our lighting blog to read more about lighting controls, home automation, and specialty restaurant lighting and hospitality lighting design by ILD.Labels: Architectural Lighting Houston Texas, Commercial Landscape Lighting, Hospitality Lighting Designers, Outdoor Restaurant Lighting, Restaurant Bar Lighting
Houston is known for its hospitality, and because it is our home city we place a special importance on hospitality lighting for Houston country clubs, premier restaurants, five star hotels, and nearby Galveston resorts.
Designing a lighting system for any of these locations requires an understanding of certain very key elements. It also requires careful planning to develop a interior lighting design that will establish and elevate the essence of place, time, and action.
Formal Entertainment
Hospitality lighting in meeting rooms, banquet halls, and ballrooms requires the best in light sources and quality lighting controls.
We employ multiple layers of direct, indirect, and accent lighting technologies to accommodate both action and frame of mind.
As a classic touch is normally called for, we often use top commercial grade decorative fixtures such as chandelier candelabras. Chandeliers provide excellent overhead lights that can be adjusted with lighting control systems to set different moods for different times of day or night.
For accent lighting around walls and tables, we can choose from literally thousands of decorative wall lights and any number of specialty lights appropriate to the nature and size of the facility.
These premium fixtures require little lighting maintenance and provide years of service.
Restaurant Lighting
Hospitality lighting in restaurants calls for a high end lighting design to create atmosphere. Dining areas tend to need a great deal of low ambient lighting. Some of Houston’s finest restaurants are actually hotel dining rooms, and as such attract the attention of executives, travelers, and residents alike.
Our restaurant hospitality lighting team pays close attention to the desires of the hospitality management staff to implement a lighting system that reflects the values and sensibilities of their patrons.
Functional light may come from wall sconces that light floor space evenly, and a variety of sconce fixtures can be utilized to match the lighting equipment itself to hospitality interior design elements.
Energy savings can be created with low voltage fixtures, dimmer controls, new LED lighting technologies that can make corridor lighting not only a function of level, but also add an element of color with little lighting maintenance.
Meeting Room Lighting
Hospitality meeting rooms require architectural lighting that is bright, glare free, and variable in levels. This is because bright lights are essential to visibility during speeches, trade shows and corporate award ceremonies; but they must be dimmed if musical entertainment takes the stage, or if audiovisual presentations are required for the event.
With our expertise in lighting control systems, we can anticipate any user lighting requirement in country clubs meeting rooms, hotel seminar facilities, and even large corporate boardrooms in buildings downtown. The advantages our team brings to the table as a multi-disciplinary consulting firm allows us to match equipment function, to purpose on a room-by-room basis throughout the location.
Exterior and Landscape Country Club Lighting
Hospitality lighting begins with architectural and landscape lighting services that make a country club clearly visible and distinguished as an area of unique excursion and experience
We are proud to have been awarded hospitality lighting design contracts for River Oaks Country Club, Lakeside Country Club, and Carlton Woods Country Club. We also provide lighting maintenance to these fine Houston Country Clubs.
Nature and its beauty play a significant role in these Houston landscape lighting designs because we recognize the innate love that most of humanity holds for greenery and waterways. We as an organization place significant importance on the magnification of natural elements as keynotes to the entire experience of vacation, entertainment, celebration, and most importantly piece of mind.
Trees with lights figure prominently in outdoor hospitality lighting, providing both boundaries for the property and special points of interest. We are one of the few companies that take special care not only to use “green” equipment that is environmentally friendly, but also to rely upon advanced installation methods that do not harm the trees in any way.
Landscape lighting contractors further accentuate walkways, waterways, and outdoor sculptures to blend the man made with the natural like fine art lighting. This in turn creates a theme of unity that enables us to install architectural commercial lighting systems that create the impression that buildings are rising up out of the landscape as part of the natural scenery.
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The Austin hospitality industry reflects both the idyllic surroundings of the Texas Hill Country and the eclectic, forward motion of one of America’s most creative and progressive urban environments.
Austin resort hotels, bed and breakfasts, and five star restaurants attract visitors from all over the United States, and they are popular weekend getaways for Texans throughout the state that may not live in Austin, but nevertheless love Austin almost like a second home.
Considering theses facts, it is readily apparent that lighting is an essential component of Austin hospitality services both as a functional necessity and a refined aspect of design
Developing a lighting system for any location requires first an understanding of its many elements, and, secondly, planning and developing a interior lighting and exterior landscape lighting system that will establish and elevate the essence of place, time, and action.
Restaurant Lighting
Almost every Austin hotel has a restaurant that requires high end lighting design to create atmosphere special attention from a decorative and lighting perspective. Indirect and colored lighting play pivotal roles in creating a sense of romantic excursion to an evening where time feels suspended in a moment where light creates emotion as well as visibility.
ILD offers a number of very specialized and proprietary restaurant lighting services that you may read bout by clicking here.
Meeting Room Lighting
Meetings represent a major service offering of the Austin hospitality industry. Many companies and executives utilize hotel meeting rooms and boardrooms to hold important meetings and seminars for keynote presentations.
Hospitality Meeting rooms and executive office lighting requires exceptionally bright lights for motivation and presentation, but they also require lighting controls to lower lighting levels for any audio/visual segments of an event.
Lighting Interior Guests Rooms
The Hospitality Association of Texas represents a prominent authority in Hill Country inns, bed and breakfasts, and five star hotels. ILD’s team works to engineer lighting systems in full compliance with local codes. Meticulous attention to advanced electrical systems such as reading lights, task lighting for safe movement within the room, kitchenette lighting, and adequate, cost effective bathroom lighting all figure prominently into our designs.
Additionally, Illuminations Lighting and Design’s extensive experience working in the residential indoor lighting design services industry enables us to introduce a variety of lighting elements that contribute to the experience of convenience and comfort and reflect the decorative elements of the interior to create a sense of balance and comfort.
This creates a feeling for guests of being home away from home when they first arrive in their rooms. The feeling sense of total privacy and safe, isolated comfort adds to a sense of sanctuary to the essence of luxury.
Hotel Lobby Lighting
The human element of hospitality begins here, in the lobby. The lighting must focus on detail as much as it does grand design.
The lobby area is definitely an area where hospitality lighting designers have to be almost mathematical in establishing points of expression, areas of task, architectural lighting and moods of decorum that both differentiate and unite into an aesthetic of welcome. It must be brightly lit with minimal reflective glare, so it is necessary to often use very sophisticated and proprietary lighting fixtures to illuminate certain key elements as ornate antique furniture, Fine art & display lighting, bookshelves, and especially rare works of art and statuary.
Illuminations Lighting and Design specialists also pay very close attention to the practical demands of booking guests and customer service. Hospitality lighting in these areas will create an upbeat atmosphere of activity accomplished through soft, recessed lighting and stronger, indirect lighting from above that “washes” surfaces in light without blinding the eyes.
Read more here about other key elements to truly superior Austin hospitality lighting that ILD now offers to all of Central Texas and the surrounding Hill Country.
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As a reflection of luxury, lighting combines the universal, the functional, and the aesthetic in a phenomenon that is both a science and an art.
Resort lighting represents the most sophisticated expression of light found in the lighting design services industry and requires a blend of multiple disciplines that must be applied in such a fashion as to separate and elevate the experience of a luxury resort to the level of the timeless and the impeccable.
Resort landscape lighting has recently moved to the forefront of the outdoor commercial lighting industry as resort management teams realize the need to showcase the entirety of a property as a single point of differentiation from the world of daily life.
It bears noting at this point that truly superior resort lighting must address interior facilities with equal attention to detail and finesse as that paid to the external layout of the grounds themselves. Without this, the uniqueness of the experience will diminish when guests enter the building.
Illuminations Lighting and Design foresaw many years ago that the current explosion in resort landscape lighting would one day sweep the nation, and we also anticipated an equal need would arise to congruently match the sophistication of interior lighting to exquisite and custom outdoor lighting presentations.
As an eclectic firm focused on bringing custom solutions through multi-disciplinary blends of various high end lighting design methodologies, we positioned ourselves to rise to the forefront of the resort hotel and high-end lighting market when the time came to do so. To prepare ourselves, we formed a network of strategic alliances with some of the worlds leading architectural, landscape, and lighting fixture-manufacturing firms. This network of strategic partnerships has enabled us to cross-train our professional teams in domains normally not directly addressed by standard lighting companies.
This overlap of skill set has also enabled us to customize methodologies specifically created for hotel, hospitality, and resort lighting in three crucial areas necessary to create a truly balanced and superior lighting system.
Outdoor Lighting Design
Interior Lighting Design
Fine Art Lighting
Lighting Control Systems
Simultaneous attention to all three areas allows us to address every element of the resort as a unique, individual component of an interconnected whole. The restaurant is set apart for romance, conversation, and sublime escape from the mediocrities of ordinary life. The banquet hall is both decorated and illuminated with lighting themes that invite to celebration. Layered landscape and architectural lighting arrays emphasize the multi-dimensional elements of natural beauty blended with the finest human engineering and design. Pathways, outdoor dining areas, tennis courts, and even parking lots are both lit for safety and decorum, contributing like strands in a web of light to the exclusive world that resort lighting creates.
To learn more about how we specifically achieve these results, click here to read additional articles on our multi-disciplinary approach to lighting design, hotel lighting design, country club lighting, and high-end lighting.
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What accounts for ILD’s rapid rise in the hospitality lighting and hotel interior design industry?
Our hotel interior lighting designs are generated from of a fusion of client vision, hotel clientele sensibilities, superb lighting materials, and a layered synthesis of task and accent lighting that supports the individual nuances of a specific location or theme. Consequently, none of our lighting designs are ever offered on a generic level. Instead, they are developed through extensive consultation with the client and, when requested, supportive electrical design work implemented in the pre-construction planning phase by our own team of licensed electrical contractors.
What two aspects of your service most distinguish you from your competitors?
We are more comprehensive on two significant levels. First, our team brings to the table a level of cross training and interdisciplinary partnership that make our hotel interior designs both more complex and more attractive. Because the team works routinely in a number of high profile disciplines such as architecture, fine art design, and landscaping, resort hotels in particular rely upon us to create a unity of exterior and interior lighting themes. We achieve this blend of experience by combining low voltage and high voltage lighting control systems for outdoor and architectural lighting to create the appearance of a grand entryway of light that focuses the eye of the guest toward the interior of the building. It is here that the most sophisticated aspects of our custom lighting solutions then come into play around the individual particulars of hotel interior design. Factors such as color scheme, furniture style, ceiling height, natural light sources, and fine art and statuary are critical factors we take into consideration when drafting our preliminary proposal for custom lighting.
Secondly, hospitality clients regard us as one of the most detail-oriented lighting design firms in our industry. Hotel interior design lighting is very unique and complex. It requires the layering of light in such a fashion as to complement and support decorative themes. Illumination must simultaneously enhance and facilitate the experience of guests. It relies heavily upon a fusion of accent lights to keynote interior decorum and upon layered, indirect lighting combinations to create an even wash of bright light in areas of heavy transit and human activity. Other areas require a wide range of ambient, mood, special effects, and functional architectural lighting. Fine art lighting as well is one of our main areas of expertise, and we have access to display lighting fixtures and specialty art projectors that can bring museum quality art lighting to the lobby of any resort, country club, or hotel in the world.
ILD continues to rise and emerge as a leader in country club lighting, resort landscape, hotel interior design, restaurant lighting and casino lighting industries. We also lead the way in providing tailored lighting maintenance contracts, relamping and retrofitting existing lighting equipment with cost-cutting energy efficient lighting products and services.
Call 1-800-863-1184 to schedule a preliminary consultation, view our extensive lighting blog or visit us online at http://www.illuminationslighting.com/. We have a design waiting for you!
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An evening at Houston's prestigious Lakeside Country Club is a long day's journey into illuminated, romantic night. Located near beautiful tree-lined Memorial Drive in West Houston, Lakeside Country Club caters to a clientele with finer tastes, a strong sense of faith, family, and community, and a desire to retreat into a natural setting after spending a day in the office in the busier, more commercial districts of our city. As such, our work for Lakeside Country Club was centered around the intent to highlight the lush, resort-like environment, the pristine beauty of an exceptional private lake, and to underscore an evening at Lakeside Country Club as a visit to a better, beautifully simplified world where natural beauty, refined taste, and absolute comfort separate experience within the grounds from the outside world of breakneck business and congested traffic.
Lakeside Country Club by its very design supports this since of differentiation and escape to better surroundings by bringing travelers gradually to the clubhouse by means of a gently winding road that meanders through the grounds. By the time members and guests hand over their keys to the valet attendant, the slow approach to the building has already helped them forget the stress, disappointments, and pains of the day and helped them look instead toward an evening of pleasure they have worked very hard to afford. In keeping with this aesthetic, Illuminations Lighting and Design installed high-end accent lighting fixtures using proprietary installation techniques that cast the precise amount of light on structural keynotes along the driveway. We utilized sophisticated sign lighting to emphasize the Lakeside Country Club sign and also placed low-key fixtures on the flagpoles to emphasize the colors of our nation, state, and the Lakeside Country Club emblem itself. To blend our lighting theme with Nature's perfection, we deployed our moon shadow and canopy lighting specialists trained in environmentally friendly installation methods to place hidden lights within the branches of trees that light the driveway. These fixtures cast pools of light on the ground very similar to the soft glow of moonlight (hence the term, "moon shadow lighting"). By placing these lights within trees that line the roadway, ILD created a grand entryway of light that enlivens the mind and lifts the spirit of anyone who journeys into the world within the gates.
Upon entering the dining hall at Lakeside Country Club, members immediately experience an illuminated unity of architecture and nature as they peer through the clubhouse windows onto the landscape lit by fixtures positioned at both the front and rear of the building. These fixtures cast the light in a circle around the building, eliminating the reflective glare of the interior lights and making it possible for members and guests to see clearly through the glass. It is now possible to view the Vista of the golf course surrounded by tree canopy lights that shine down upon the driving range, the putting greens, and landscaping elements that blend indigenous vegetation with aesthetic terraforming. The interior of the Lakeside Country Club dining room thus becomes one with the surrounding exterior due to the unifying field of light cast by strategically positioned, sophisticated lighting equipment. As the eye follows the light from the dining area into the surrounding countryside, it encounters the pinnacle of our work - the illuminated suspension bridge over the lake. Lit clearly by accent lighting fixtures that help establish its position as the central outdoor structure of the property, the illuminated suspension bridge has earned high acclaim from Lakeside Country Club members and guests.
Because so many people join Lakeside Country Club to not only to dine in refined settings free from traffic congestion and parking shortages, but also to experience the natural beauty of the property, ILD completed its lighting design work with refined touches of outdoor lighting placed strategically along pathways and structures that form the patio dining areas. The palm trees, dining tables, pools, and surrounding deck all bathe in soft, relaxing light cast down from surrounding oak trees just beyond the perimeter of human activity. This results in a blended experience of activity, form, and natural ambiance where earth and architecture come together in a field of light and contribute to an unforgettable experience of refined conversation, peace, and serenity for all those who attend evening events at Lakeside Country Club.
Illuminations Lighting and Design extends its warm thanks to the directors of Lakeside Country Club for choosing us as their design partner in excellence. For other similar organizations, we stand available for all inquiries to accomplish a similar vision for their establishment. Call us today at 713-863-1133 for a complimentary, in-depth consultation to begin a long day's journey into light.
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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 at 713-863-1133 or request a design consultation to see what new experience we can bring to your world today.
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LIGHTING DESIGNERS are a valuable member of the overall design team on any residential or commercial project. They work hand in hand with the architect, interior designer and homeowner to ensure that the lighting is practical, funtional, attractrive and compliments the architecture. Lighting is pivotal in any style architecure because of it's ability to enhance colors, texture and form.
Lighting designers are also helpful in the area of LIGHTING CONTROLS and HOME AUTOMATION. From wall box dimmers to elaborate home controls systems, lighting designers can set the mood. Everything from lighting, audio video, HVAC and security can be combined into a home automation system. In fact, it is now possible to manage your automation system remotely by computer.
Illuminations Lighting Design is located in Houston Texas. For over 28years we have been the leader in high end residential lighting and design. We serve all of Texas including Austin, San Antonio, Dallas and Corpus Christi.
Give the experts at Illuminations a call toll free at 800-863-1184 or email TOM KRETZSCHMAR to learn more about our lighting design and home automation services.
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