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Friday, December 07, 2007

Superior Hotel Interior Design Lighting by Houston's Illuminations Lighting Design

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

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Hotel Lighting Means Business!

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.

Investing in a hotel lighting system custom to one's facility can actually lead to a direct and measurable increase in both clientele and corporate revenues. Our team of specialists keeps profitability on equal footing with desirability with each project we undertake. Call 800-863-1184 today to request a lighting design consultation. We travel nationwide to light the way for superior amenities, events, and memories.

Labels: Exterior Lights For Hotels, Hotel Landscape Lighting, Hotel Lighting Design

Friday, June 24, 2005

Do you travel outside of Houston to design and install lighting?

We have been blessed since 1980 to travel to many locations around the country to design and install both interior home lighting and outdoor landscape lighting.

Our lighting projects have taken us to a plethora of cities in Texas such as Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, Corpus Christi, Beaumont, El Paso, Brownsville, Kerrville, Sequin, New Braunfels and Plano. In addition, we have also worked in Colorado, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mexico, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, Florida and California to name a few.

We are accustomed to working with architects, interior designers, custom home builders, contractors and homeowners by provide professional services, from consulting, energy code calculations, CAD drawings, documentation and project management, to furnishing, installing and fine tuning all types of lighting fixtures and control systems.

Wherever you live, rest assured that Illuminations Lighting Design is here to assist you with your indoor and outdoor lighting in any way! Give us a call at 800-863-1184 and we will be happy to discuss your project.

Labels: Architectural Lighting Houston Texas, Austin Landscape Lighting, Beaumont Landscape Lighting, Commercial Landscape Lighting, Fine art lighting, Hotel Lighting Design