The lighting consultants and lighting design specialists at Illuminations understand how color, texture, form and shadow can be molded creatively to produce the effect required. This can only be accomplished with the correct equipment and a complete knowledge of lamp types and lamp performance. An Illuminations signature lighting design is a space where every lantern, sconce, chandelier, up light and down light ideally balances a room for its precise intent, including hard-to-light spaces. Check out some
Houston Texas lighting testimonials from customers of ILD.
Illuminations Lighting Design, located in Houston, Texas specializes in the following lighting applications:
Houston Landscape Lighting
Illuminations Lighting Design wants to give Houston residents the perfect place to live. Our experience in home and
outdoor 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
landscape lighting services will showcase all the hidden beauty within your Houston residence, and get the new neighbors talking about how to compete with your innovative design.
Fine Art & Display Cabinet Lighting
Clients of Illuminations Lighting and Design experience benefits unavailable anywhere else in our marketplace. We take lighting and design to an entirely new plane with art lights and design strategies unmatched by our competitors. Because our specialists have trained for many years in the endless nuances of fine art lighting, we deliver value as consultants while giving equal care and attention to the technical demands of commercial and residential projects. As distributors for every major manufacturer that deals in
art lighting, we can create a lighting theme customized to specific art genres and special pieces in your collection. As partner Company to
Phantom Lighting, we can also install specialty art lighting to showcase rare and delicate works and to create a one-of-a-kind experience that private and professional art patrons alike are certain to never forget.
Lighting Control System Design
Lighting control systems help our clients with long-term, accumulated savings on power costs. Our many years of experience in home automation and control have shown us that clients consistently save approximately 10% per annum on their power bills.
Vantage lighting control systems contain astronomical timers that control both indoor and outdoor lighting power and brightness levels.
Lutron Homeworks lighting control systems can manage motorized window shades and draperies at either preset intervals, or we can program them to respond to user commands via touch pads and remotes. They can also operate on either light or heat sensors, thus intuitively responding to their environment. This sophisticated efficiency works like clockwork, and it preserves equipment life up to 40%. By reducing maintenance calls and costs for our clients, we can provide additional, long-terms savings on unnecessary replacements. Return on investment in
Lutron Radio Ra lighting control systems is therefore reliable and measurable, and is one of the best financial investments ILD clients can make for themselves.
For over 30 years, ILD has grown to include a team of over 50 talented and dedicated employees. Specialty divisions have evolved that focus on disciplines like lighting design, electrical contracting services, landscape lighting maintenance and home automation. Having specialists in these disciplines, while remaining true to the mission of offering home owners the "big picture" of lighting design, is essential to continued success at Illuminations Lighting.
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Should I devote time to reading DIY manuals to learn how to plan lighting in my home or should I consult with an interior lighting designer?
We do not recommend you spend money on how to manuals. Most of the basics you would need along these lines can be found on our website and many public domain “How To” resources all over the Internet. Using a lighting design service is just as important as hiring a builder or interior designer.
The best source of interior lighting design planning is actually in your own mind. By taking a specialized and focused approach to your own daily lifestyle, you will quickly recognize that light plays an important role in any design style. You will also quickly see the connection between light and the many activities and material things within your home. These simple wish lists you have made can then be shared with an interior lighting professional from ILD who can then partner with you as an extension of your personal desires. This helps materialize in form what you conceptualized originally as an idea.
How do I work with my designer to plan the lighting in my kitchen?
If you are going to have custom cabinets and marble countertops installed, share these details with your lighting specialist. Also, write down all the major activities you will be performing in the kitchen. Some people use the kitchen as the hub of a party, while others use it primarily for cooking. How you use the kitchen is just as important as what goes into the kitchen when it comes time to plan and install the ceiling lighting system.
How do I plan the lighting in the living room? Should it be more functional or decorative?
In most cases it turns out to be a near-equal balance of both. People spend more free time in the living room than any other room of the home. You will soon realize how much you use this room yourself just by listing all the daily life activities you find yourself performing here. The list suddenly grows much longer as soon as you add entertainment, favorite furnishings, decorative displays, and special occasions such as family reunions.
The more details you itemize, the more your specialist can help determine what needs general light and what needs special accent lighting.
Does the den require a separate, special lighting plan uniquely its own?
In most cases, yes. Dens are almost always places of quiet and focus. The home decorative lighting here must support both key elements to be effective. Knowing in advance how you will use your den will help you better determine how to plan lighting in your den. Ask yourself questions. Will you place a desk here to bring home work from the office? Will you be running a home-based business that requires “office style” lighting to set a “work mode” mindset? Is this your personal adult playroom where you come to practice guitar, work on personal artwork, or start that book you always wanted to right?
Each of these scenarios requires a completely different type of illumination. How you plan and install your lighting in your den will play a major role in defining how your mind works and how your emotions respond to this specialized environment whose very nature tends to be set apart from the rest of the home.
How do I plan art lighting and bedroom lighting?
These are highly emotional forms of lighting that require a lot of attention to decorative appeal and multiple layers of accent. Think about how you want your children and guests to feel when they go to sleep at night, and how you would like your favorite artwork to be perceived by distinguished visitors. ILD specialists can take it from there and develop custom solutions tailor made to your family’s personal values and values and your home’s interior architecture.
Where are your main offices and how can I engage your services?
We are located in Houston Texas but provide lighting, consulting and design services in Austin TX, El Paso Texas, San Antonio TX, College Station Texas, Beaumont TX, Dallas Texas, Midland Tx and points beyond. Visit our lighting blog or call us today at 713-863-1133 to request a consultation online using our contact us form. Labels: Designing Lighting Plans, Home Lighting Plans, House Lighting Plans, Lighting Consultants Designers, Planning Lighting Designs
Illuminations Lighting and Design delivers creative and technical lighting design services in multiple vertical markets and diverse neighborhoods throughout Houston and Greater Texas. Over the past 27 years, we have earned our reputation as a leader in all forms of lighting design and electrical contracting services in both commercial and residential arenas. Our clients enjoy the benefits of custom lighting design services that reflect both the physical structures they occupy and the lifestyle, values, and activities that occur within those structures. Years of cross training and mentoring under seasoned veterans of our company have given each and every one of our consultants a multi-disciplinary skill set consisting of construction methodology, CAD software application, architectural design theory, all forms of landscaping, and interior design techniques. Armed with such a vast reservoir of knowledge, each lighting design service client can expect to see a result that complements existing structures, decorative themes, important functions, and daily activities.
We place a heavy emphasis on training at Illuminations Lighting and Design. In addition to learning the full gamut of lighting design services, each technician also studies other disciplines parallel to our own. When working on new homes or office buildings, we assist general contractors and builders by implementing our lighting design services and electrical contracting expertise from the ground up. We partner with a number of architects, builders, interior designers, and landscapers to ensure that our lighting design services enhance every aspect of function and form.
Our superior results extend into virtually every commercial and residential arena. We work in the most exclusive neighborhoods such as River Oaks, Tanglewood, Memorial, Bellaire, and West University, providing lighting design services for owners of mid to large size homes and custom mansions alike. Our electrical services and home automation departments assist in renovation and home improvement projects that transform existing structures into entirely new dwellings. Homeowners with eclectic tastes consistently call ILD for lighting design services that illuminate artwork and three-dimensional art displays. Art galleries throughout Houston come to us as well for proprietary, patented technology that delivers optimal illumination without any of the destructive effects created by inferior forms of lighting and generic installs. In the industrial arena we create low-voltage architectural and security lighting designs that serve to both beautify structures while simultaneously keeping them safe at lower power rates. Our knowledge of the philosophical and spiritual connotations of light have also attracted first preference from churches and hospitality professionals who rely on Illuminations Lighting and Design's services to implement themes that reflect the deepest levels of human emotion and faith.
Regardless of who our client is, we begin each project with detailed CAD planning, hand renderings, and systematical analysis of lighting specifications. Each ILD consultant is a professional who will ensure that all elements of the project comply with regulatory authority and safety laws. Our full lighting design services include:
Lighting Control System Specification, Layout and Programming for home automation clients. This allows the homeowner one-touch control of luminosity, power on/off, and multiple lighting themes that set various moods fro different occasions.
Custom Architectural Lighting Details that keynote specific structural features.
Custom On-Site Focusing and Aiming of Fixtures to obscure the fixtures themselves and create magical lighting effects around objects.
Photometric Calculations to create precise levels of luminosity and superior color rendering in key locations.
Energy Code Assistance, Recommendations and Documentation to help reduce power consumption and ensure full regulatory compliance of all electrical and lighting systems within a facility.
Analysis and Recommendations for existing sites.
Illuminations Lighting and Design's services and creative solutions will bring a whole new level of living and business experience to clients in any walk of life or occupation. Our goal is to enhance homes and buildings and fill landscapes and interiors with the only thing in existence that occupies space without consuming square footage - light. Call us at 713-863-1133 today so we can create such an experience for your unique reality regardless of industry, vocation, lifestyle, personal tastes, or personal faith.
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Each light source has a unique color temperature that sets the appearance for the environment in which it is used. The actual color of the light that is given off from the source is represented in Kelvin and referred to as Correlated Color Temperature or CCT. A lamp can have a warm, midrange or cool appearance depending on its color temperature. These different color temperatures can set the mood, create an environment, improve a person's disposition, influence a person's buying habits and has even been know to affect a person's appetite.
"Warm" light sources have a lower color temperature, usually in the 2500K-3000K range. These lamps produce more light in the red/orange/yellow spectrum. As color temperature of a lamp increases the lamps appearance becomes "cooler." As the lamp's color temperature increases so does the amount of light produced in the blue end of the spectrum.
Here are some of the various Kelvin color temperatures and common applications for fluorescent lamps:
2700K - 3400K
Warm; Warm White
Specialty Retailers, Restaurants, Hotel Lobbies, Residential Applications
3500K
Neutral; Neutral White
Grocery Stores & Produce Markets, Retail Stores, Bank Lobbies
4100K
Cool; Cool White
Offices, Manufacturing, Schools, Hospitals
5000K - 6500K
Daylight; Daylight Plus; Full Spectrum
Printers, Paint Studios, Art Galleries, Car Dealerships
If you would like to learn more about how light and color can affect your environment, give the
professional lighting designers at Illuminations Lighting Design a call toll free at 800-863-1184. They are 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. Visit them online as
http://www.illuminationslighting.com/.
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