San Antonio hospitality lighting design services by Illuminations Lighting focus on emphasizing the keynote features of five star hotels and restaurants along San Antonia’s world famous River Walk. Our multi-disciplinary approach to lighting emphasizes a unity between natural and architectural themes that creates a blending of phenomenon bound together with layers of light.
Lighting is as important to hospitality both as an industry and an experience. Designing a lighting system for any location requires first an understanding of its many elements, and, secondly, planning and developing a lighting design and installation that will establish and elevate the essence of place, time, and action.
Exterior and Landscape Lighting
Hospitality lighting begins with architectural and landscape lighting that make the hotel edifice clearly visible along the River Walk and distinguish it as an area of unique excursion and romantic adventure.
After many years of partnership and cross-training with leading architectural firms, ILD has developed a number of proprietary landscape lighting techniques that enable us to conceal lighting fixtures in such a way as to highlight building features with apparently sourceless light.
We also balance the edifice with the surrounding landscape by combining four layers of light around waterworks, sidewalks, piers, and outdoor dining areas. We seek to unite natural and man made features by emphasizing what has been there before the landscaping crew and treating it with equivalence to what has since been sculpted.
Trees with lights figure prominently in our outdoor hospitality lighting systems, 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 proprietary installation methods that do not harm the trees in any way.
Landscape lighting contractors further accentuate pathways, walkways along the river, fountains, and outdoor sculptures to blend the man made with the natural. This synthesis contributes greatly to the feeling of genuine “getaway” that so many people come to San Antonio to find.
Lobby Lighting
ILD Hospitality lighting designers work with mathematical precision to establish points of expression, areas of task, and moods of decorum that unite furniture and interior design into an aesthetic of welcome. We design the lobby lighting system in such a way as to produce a minimum of reflective glare, so that guests may comfortably enjoy certain key elements as ornate antique furniture, display cases, bookshelves, and especially fine art lighting for works of art and statuary from recessed art lighting without having light reflected back into their eyes.
We also work to create an upbeat atmosphere of activity accomplished through soft, direct surface lighting and stronger, low voltage recessed lighting from above that “washes” surfaces in light without blinding the eyes. All desk areas and corridors leading to and from the lobby area can be lit by multiple desk, wall, or suspended luminaries that eliminate pockets of shadow and glare by striking surfaces from multiple angles of lighting incidence.
Restaurant Lighting
Many of San Antonio’s finest restaurants overlook the River Walk and utilize a view of the landscape as an important element for establishing atmosphere and ambiance.
In order to provide diners with a clear view of the exterior, hospitality lighting designers have to overcome the reflection that interior lights sometimes cast upon the windows without inadvertently diminishing indoor lighting.
This is where our multi-specialty offers San Antonio hotels and restaurants something truly unique. We are able to install low-profile outdoor lights with lighting control systems that penetrate the glass just enough to overcome reflection and enable a clear view of patios, sidewalks, and the river itself.
Within the interior, we employ a high level of affect lighting to create atmosphere, illuminate wall art, and provide ambient lighting for booths and tables. This constitutes a blended lighting array that extends the exterior into the private space of the restaurant, utilizing San Antonio’s rich scenery as an adjunct to interior design.
Imagine how your guests will feel sitting inside, but feeling like they are outside.
For restaurants that also have meeting rooms, we utilize sophisticated overhead lighting controlled by dimmer switches and home automation lighting controls that allow hosts to turn the lights down for audiovisual presentations, or to adjust them and place a spotlight on a keynote speaker.
Banquet room lighting involves a similar approach to overhead lighting that is user controlled, although the fixtures here tend to be more formal in nature. Classic chandeliers and candelabras not only provide excellent sources of down lighting, but they also create a formal sense of hospitality and refined sensibility that sets the banquet room apart as a special place within a special place.
Contact us toll free at 800-863-1184 to learn more about the many dimensions of hospitality lighting that ILD’s award winning team delivers to restaurants, hotels, and country clubs throughout The United States.
Labels: Commercial Lighting Designers, Hospitality Lighting Central Texas, Hospitality Lighting San Antonio, Hotel Landscape Lighting, Resort Lighting Design
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.
Click here to learn more about Houston hospitality lighting designs for hotel lobbies, corridors, and guest rooms.
Labels: Hospitality Lighting Designers, Hospitality Lighting Houston, Hotel Landscape Lighting, Resort Lighting Design, River Oaks Country Club
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.
Labels: Hospitality Lighting Designers, Hotel Landscape Lighting, Outdoor Architectural Lighting, Resort Lighting Design
As a distinguished lighting consulting firm and our single-vendor source of commercial grade holiday lighting fixtures, we stand as a unique position of both industry mainstay and industry leader. With history and experience, we can accommodate tradition. With technical readiness, we can drive evolution forward. Outdoor holiday lighting installation no longer requires limitations to be environmentally sound and conservation-focused. New LED fixtures have emerged on the market and now make it possible for us to offer our commercial and hospitality clients extremely large lighting displays with limited circuits and only minimal power. This is a key benefit even for large hotel chains and resort facilities with enormous budgets that can afford the very best in outdoor tree lighting equipment. Regardless of revenue, funds are always better invested in impeccable design and superior technology than on consumable, non-renewing energy. LED holiday lighting brings outdoor landscapes to new levels of light and variety. We have literally thousands of ornamental, accent lights, decorative, and task-oriented fixtures in both specialty and traditional designs that will transform architecture and property into a virtual reality world of Christmas and specialty lights.
For resorts and hotels it is a convenience to have premier landscape, Christmas tree lights, and various architectural keynotes brought to the forefront with affordable outdoor holiday lighting. For commercial properties in the corporate world, however, even many larger budgets have to when investing a small fortune for seasonally relevant design work. For these entities, it is vitally important that any design we install incorporate two key elements to produce justify their investment: ease of operability and long equipment life. Since outdoor holiday lights showcase a corporate facility with a visible presence, it is necessary that they be left on longer at reduced costs and that they require only a minimum of hands-on operation. Outdoor maintenance crews on campus normally do not have the time or expertise to operate and maintain these systems, and many employees are often on vacation at this time of year. For this reason, ILD installs the highest commercial grade equipment that is both weather resistant and capable of enduring multiple setup installations over the years to come. To improve user friendliness, we uses sophisticated timers and dimmers that automate outdoor holiday lights so holiday events and visiting strategic partners can enjoy the lights as a self-sustaining aesthetic that requires no visible human interface to control.
Integrating the new with the traditional is not something every lighting company can accomplish. Not only does it require superb knowledge of electronics and safety, but it also involves the ability to apply creativity on a practical level. One of the many elements that differentiate ILD’s holiday lighting installation methods is our ability to minimize physical wiring. Physical wires pose a number of problems on several levels. The risk of short-circuiting poses both reliability issues and possible safety concerns, and from and aesthetic perspective, they are also something of an eyesore. By contrast, our professionals normally substitute standard wires with custom wiring harnesses that support fixtures but hide their own appearance. Our holiday lighting themes are therefore cleaner, and they appear to the observer to be linked by rays of light rather than insulated copper. Specialized lighting equipment and advanced electrical installations of this sort are not commonly available through lower grade manufacturing channels, and it is almost completely absent on the open retail market. In order to make our highly customized and painstakingly installed displays not only shine—but last over time—we must use the very highest quality UL Approved, commercial grade fixtures, lamps, and supports.
To learn more about specific equipment or consulting services that could enhance your next holiday event, please contact us today at 1-800-863-1184 to request a consultation and preliminary design proposal.
Labels: Holiday Decorations Houston, Hotel Landscape Lighting, Outdoor Architectural Lighting, Outdoor Holiday Lighting
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!
Labels: Hospitality Lighting Designers, Hotel Landscape Lighting, Hotel Lighting Design
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
Resorts, country clubs, casinos, and five star hotels all come to Illuminations Lighting and Design for high end lighting services that illuminate exclusive entertainment by unifying natural features and architectural keynotes. High-end lighting clients invest tremendous revenue in the very best construction and custom landscaping in the world. After sunset, these features require exact levels of light and special lighting effects to distinguish their superior value throughout all hours of the night. By approaching high end lighting as a systematic application of four strategic layers of custom lighting design, ILD consultants develop a custom overlay of light that creates special effects in water features, makes trees and ornamental vegetation clearly visible, and brings out the richness and uniqueness of exclusive building design that distinguishes superb facilities from their competitors. High-end lighting emphasizes luxury and comfort by highlighting the many points of differentiation that make each exclusive facility a unique experience of lifestyle and refined entertainment.
Architectural lighting forms a vital layer of illumination in any high end lighting project. To work successfully, it requires an expert knowledge of light itself and a thorough understanding of building design. Architectural lights must illuminate the edifice and structural features of clubhouses, event facilities, restaurants, and hotels without distracting the eye with obtrusive lighting fixtures and wiring. They must also highlight individual design features without destroying the aesthetic unity of the structure as a whole. To accommodate this paradoxical demand, ILD's high-end lighting team cross-trains and partners with a number of architectural firms to learn the planning and construction methods employed in clubhouse and hotel building design. Armed with a scientific knowledge of light itself combined with industry knowledge of advanced architecture, we can source illumination from key angles that maximize beam spread and cast greater amounts of light over the building using only a minimum number of physical lighting fixtures. Our high end lighting clients have greatly praised our ability to make their clubhouse or hotel appear prominent above the landscape without overpowering the surrounding amenities, decor, and natural beauty of the grounds.
In addition to architectural lighting, our high-end lighting team deploys three additional layers of lighting to compliment structure and specific landscaping features surrounding the facility. Moon/shadow lighting provides both general and specialty lighting for landscaping features and improves security by dispersing illumination property-wide. The term "moon shadow" refers to effects created by mercury vapor down lights carefully hidden in trees. Soft, moon like light rains down from an invisible source above and forms complex patterns of light and shadow on earth and water features. Streams, private lakes, artificial geysers, water walls and waterfalls all light up with an iridescent sense of movement as the water dances between light and darkness. Our high end lighting specialist's then compliment these special effects with a third layer of lighting known as accent lighting that emphasizes sculptures, statues, water features, waterfalls, garden art, and outdoor dining tables.
High-end lighting specialists complete the project further with a fourth design layer known as tree canopy lighting. For resorts and country clubs surrounded by large, stately oaks and Roman-style poplars, tree canopy lighting affords members and guests a view of the greenery at any time of night. Our high end lighting specialists draw from an extensive product base to install specialty up lights along the base of the tree line that illuminate trunks, wood color, branches, and leaves. For newer facilities with minimal foliage we will create the same effect by placing bollards along the perimeter of the grounds. Bollards stand between three and four feet tall and dual function as ornamental decoration during daylight hours. When requested by the client, we will unify the paved areas with the entirety of the grounds by installing ornamental parking lot lights that compliment both tree canopy lighting and bollard lighting with ornate pole design and high-levels of luminosity that contribute to security and safety.
Labels: Commercial Lighting Designers, High-End Lighting, Hotel Landscape Lighting
Hotel lighting increases business for luxury resorts and five star chains by making clearly visible the many distinguishing amenities that make a particular facility stand out as a preferred location. Hotel lighting requires not only the most durable and sophisticated outdoor lighting equipment, but it also requires an advanced knowledge of landscaping and architecture to properly light the hotel structure itself and aesthetically illuminate the surrounding property. Illuminations Lighting and Design travels nationwide to develop custom hotel lighting systems that improve hotel security, provide lighting for evening events, and improve the visibility of exquisite landscaping, architecture, and decorations so as to attract a larger clientele for the business.
Architectural lighting forms the very backbone of superior hotel lighting. A truly impeccable facility no doubt features many architectural keynotes that differentiate it as superior to surrounding structures. While these features clearly stand out during daylight hours, nightfall wraps their uniqueness in obscurity and hides the attractiveness of the facility. ILD solves this problem by installing architectural lights on the hotel building itself. We take a less-is more approach to this task, being careful to limit both the number of fixtures themselves and the sizes of fixtures we deploy. Having partnered for many years with a number of elite architectural firms, and having formed solid partnerships with the world's top-rated commercial lighting manufacturers, we can assess the nuance of any structure's specific design, select one or more key fixtures to illuminate its elements, and utilize award-winning design strategies to position the fixtures at angles that offer the widest dispersal of light. Lighting the hotel surface with a "washing" of light brings the entire edifice into a prominent position along the skyline. Another layer of architectural accent lighting further emphasizes ornamental design work, balconies, flagpoles, and window design. This creates two or more layers of light that make the entire structure glow with an ambient aura of sophistication and elegance. There is no better advertising that a structure that changes darkness to light and stands preeminent along the thoroughfare.
In a society highly conscious of security and personal safety, it is absolutely critical for hotel lighting to illuminate the entire property with sufficient levels of brightness that deter variant elements who utilize shadows and darkness as opportunities for criminal mischief. Parking lots and parking garages that are brightly lit and glare free make guests feel safer and are also easier for security personnel and security cameras to view. However, parking lots lights around hotels do not have to appear ordinary or unattractive. Illuminations Lighting distributes a number of parking lot poles and lights designed to output high levels of foot-candles in full compliance with government regulation. By using an ornamental fixture to support a very necessary, practical device, our hotel lighting designers can give something as standard as a parking lot a decorative flair congruent to the landscape and architecture of the resort. We can compliment these fixtures by adding bollards in the green areas surrounding the parking lot, creating the optical effect of two levels of light that encircle guests the moment they arrive on premises. Hotel lighting specialists will also eliminate shadows from the parking garage with architectural lighting and uplighting fixtures that will create a wash of light along the front and side edifices, thus clearly illuminating all areas leading too and from the parking garage.
Hotel lighting professionals also will work to unite the architectural beauty of the building and the security lighting of the periphery with aesthetic landscape lighting layers that compliment the amenities and nighttime activities that occur on premises. Guests who like to stay up late and go for walks outside can enjoy the full beauty of water features accented by moon shadow effects produced by mercury vapor lights carefully concealed in trees. Accent lighting along hotel walkways accentuates stonework and decorative elements that add to the beauty of nighttime strolls. Corporate event planners tend prefer hotels with lighting that allows for both activity and full enjoyment of the resort regardless irrespective of late hours. Keeping the lights on can land a bid for the next convention or major trade show that comes to town.
Labels: Exterior Lights For Hotels, Hotel Landscape Lighting, Hotel Lighting Design
