Truly effective Texas electrical service requires much more than simple wiring and electricity. Today’s houses and buildings are so much more sophisticated than they were in the past; featuring more elaborate floor plans, more space consolidation, automated wiring and more custom interior architecture.
When you find yourself facing a basic or minor electrical problem, more than likely you would want to work with a local company in your area. It is usually more cost effective to go with someone within your own community who can be there on the same day or the day after, and who can show you a great deal of personal attention.
However, more extensive and complex services like whole house surge suppression, power backup, new home wiring and electrical emergency generator installation, often demand that small, local Texas electrical service companies call upon Houston-based Illuminations Lighting and Design to add their expertise, personnel, and training in a team work capacity to deliver a comprehensive solution to the eclectic Texas homeowner.
More advanced electrical service work that may not be available in your area can be obtained for larger projects by contacting ILD directly. The following represents just a few of the major project services we offer to large estates and custom homes throughout the Houston area and Texas Hill Country.
Electrical Home Remodeling
Surge Suppressors, Backup Power, and Electrical Generators
Your electrical service could be interrupted by any number of causes, chief among which are severe weather conditions unique to both Central Texas and the Texas Gulf Coast Region.
All along the Texas Coast, Houston, Beaumont, Galveston County are hit every year by tropical storms. At other times, we are hit by full force hurricanes. Residents of Austin, Texas, San Antonio, Brenham, TX, La Grange, Columbus, and Bastrop, Texas at times get struck by violent thunderstorms and hail, and many times face the threat of tornadoes.
Every house in Texas should be protected by multiple ground fault circuit interrupters (GFCI).
A GFCI is a vital safety component that protects children and pets in much the same way that a circuit breaker or fuse protects the circuit panel. If the wire becomes frayed or gets wet, this can cause the power to suddenly spike. When a spike occurs, the GFCI immediately senses the upsurge and shuts down the circuit, thus minimizing the treat of electrocution.
Any time the power goes out completely in a neighborhood or small town in Texas, electrical service may not be immediately available due to inclement weather. In such an instance, having a commercial grade, dependable generator for emergency power can keep you in touch with the world and maintain the basic power requirements of your home until the power is restored.
Custom homeowners in Texas should strongly consider contacting a specialty electrical service firm like ILD to install a whole house surge suppression system. This will safeguard their investment in their home lighting systems and controls. Extremely remote locations often experience spikes in electrical service that can blow out circuits and electronic equipment in the home.
Again, this service proves to be of immense benefits to both Gulf Coast clients and Hill Country Clients alike. Everything from hurricanes and tropical storms to tornadoes and thunderstorms with hail can strike down power lines and send surges of high voltage straight into homes. By protecting your house with surge suppression, you can weather the storm without having to replace entire systems when the rains clear.
Advanced Electrical Services: Custom Home Wiring, Lighting Control, and Home Automation
Even the best Texas electrical service professionals often require training in skill sets beyond the boundaries of standard electrical work. Today’s home theater systems, whole house audio systems, and advanced home security controls require advanced knowledge of computers, security controls, lighting control software, and home theater components that can only be gained through cross training and partnerships with specialists who are familiar with these disciplines.
This is where Illuminations Lighting outshines its competition in advanced electrical services to Texas homeowners with eclectic tastes and highly customized home architecture. Our electric service professionals cross train and partner with our lighting control and home automation services, combining two divisions into one solid team when exceptional delivery power is required in the field.
Regardless of whether you need a new home theater, a Vantage control software upgrade, Lutron wallbox dimmers, or a Radio RA wireless lighting control system, you can depend Texas electrical service technicians and lighting design experts to lay the strongest possible foundation of service and functionality for any home networking, entertainment, or command control objectives your preference and lifestyle requires.
Illuminations Lighting and Design is a full-service vendor of Texas electrical service work, commercial and home lighting design, fine art lighting and lighting control and automation systems. Most of our electrical service work is concentrated in the area between Houston, Austin, and San Antonio. Occasionally we go as far north as Dallas and Fort Worth for major projects, and we work nationwide as a lighting design and electrical service contractor for high-end lighting projects at resorts, hotels, country clubs, and exclusive restaurants.
Call us today for a free consultation at 1-800-863-1184. Consultants are standing by to assist your with any custom project in Texas.Labels: Austin Texas Lighting, Fine art lighting, Home Automation Specialists, Home Theater Design, Professional Landscape Lighting, Texas Electrical Contractors
Outdoor deck lighting transforms even the most simple decks and smallest gazebos into worlds of nightlife and surreal light. Home entertainment during Spring and Summer often sees a great deal of traffic in and around the garden, the pool, and on the deck. Outdoor lights in these areas help create safe areas for people to move about freely, and they add a special ambiance to home entertainment that lifts it above the bourgeois sensory pursuits of faux bovine popular culture.
Basic outdoor deck lights can be obtained at almost any hardware store and installed by the homeowner. More sophisticated, commercial grade lights and complex lighting arrays require the expertise and license of a professional commercial grade vendor and electrical contractor to become available to the individual homeowner.
Working with a professional electrical contracting and lighting design firm like Illuminations Lighting never limits the personal expression of the client. ILD specialists always listen very closely to the expectations and wishes of the client, then carefully study the architecture of the deck and the layout of the home’s exterior landscaping. With this information, they choose from outdoor deck lighting fixtures that provide optimal safety and optimal aesthetic compliment to the surrounding natural environment.
Outdoor deck lighting systems by ILD feature a unique combination of deck lighting design elements that collectively showcase the architecture, size, and activities of the deck as a prominent outdoor structure. Working from the outside into the interior of each structure, lighting specialists establish boundaries, model form, and finally add function and comfort to the system.
Setting Boundaries and Claiming Space
When people think of decks, they think of more than the wooden platforms. They think of the walkway leading to and from the deck, and of the areas just outside the rails and posts where they can mill around in conversation and revelry.
Professional outdoor lighting contractors pay attention to this often unnoticed, albeit very vital space by claiming it as an illuminated, virtual extension of the structure. A very simple, but nevertheless extremely effective way to do this is to attach post lighting fixtures to rails and columns. These outdoor deck lights shine light at a full 360-degree angle, casting a circle of light around the structure and creating a sense of elevated separation from the surrounding landscape.
Elevating Form to Festivity Space
Next, ILD professionals ensure that access points are safe and designate the surface of the deck as special space by installing step and in-deck recessed outdoor deck and path lighting fixtures. These flush-mounted, highly-impact resistant lights are made to be walked on and are ideal for decorating stairs, floors, and lower walls of the deck.
A common mistake that do-it-yourselfers often make is to install too many step and in-deck recessed lighting fixtures all over the place. This tends to backfire from a design perspective, making one’s outdoor deck lighting look like the inverted ceiling of an old 70’s disco and ruining the selective, ambient effect these lights are meant to achieve.
Lighting Design Professionals know how to avoid this mistake by calculating distance and angle in such as way as to strategically placing fixtures at key points on stairs, along walls, and in turns or elevation changes in the floor. This has the effect of creating corresponding and parallel fields of light that touch in places, overlap in others.
Illuminating the Festivities Within
Activity requires task light, which most often comes in the form of some sort of down lighting. Many outdoor deck lights look like indoor wall sconces and attach to posts, rails, columns, and interior walls.
ILD has a wide range of classic, modern, traditional, and contemporary outdoor deck lighting fixture designs that can be installed to reflect both the structure itself and the many personal elements of your lifestyle.
Serving All of the Houston Area
As spring becomes consistently warm again and summer looms just over the horizon, we see outdoor deck lighting increasing in popularity all over the Houston area. Clientele from Houston’s premier neighborhoods like Rice Village, Bellaire, West University, Memorial Villages, Royal Oaks, River Oaks, and suburbs such as Sugar Land, Spring, Cypress, are staying home more and entertaining more in the comfort and private sophistication of home entertainment and home lighting systems by Illuminations Lighting and Design.
Call 1-800-863-1184 now to schedule a free consultation. You'll be glad you did!
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Houstonian's often assume that because a large number of nationwide, branded retailers offer enormous selections of exterior lighting fixtures for houses, yard decorations, and landscaping fixtures that they can save money by purchasing attractive fixtures and performing their own installations. This never pays off in the long run because retail-grade outdoor light fixtures are not built to withstand the elements, require lighting maintenance and they are also more difficult to connect to automated lighting controls like Lutron Radio Ra.
A professional lighting design company like Illuminations Lighting and Design carefully studies your home and surrounding property and spends extensive time consulting with you to in order to learn the many particulars of your personal lifestyle. Outdoor lights are chosen that will accent and magnify your home environment on an intensely personal level, and careful attention is paid to a number of very important factors that only a trained consultant can properly assess to develop a system of outdoor lights and lighting controls.
Theme and Style
The theme and style of residential lighting reflects your personal tastes, the physical style of your home architecture, the sizes and styles of the homes in your neighborhood, and even the geography in which you are located.
Houses in River Oaks often look like stately old-world mansions like fine art. Homes near Memorial often reflect early American or colonial architecture, whereas many two story houses in Bellaire feature of blend of traditional architecture and eclectic customization.
These architectural keynotes have to be considered when choosing architectural light fixtures in order to build a system with complimentary aesthetic. ILD professionals work to enhance the architecture and location of a home, never diminish it, with the physical style and size of the outdoor light fixtures we install.
Architectural and Whole House Lighting
Many outdoor lights have been specifically engineered to easily mount to the exterior of the house itself. Knowing where to put them, however, presents the greatest challenge to the home lighting installer. If the lighting angles are not calculated accurately, house lights will cause light pollution and glare that overwhelm the architecture and spill into neighboring yards and windows. Outdoor lighting contractors such as ILD are trained in special installation methods that enable them to install outdoor lights from concealed positions that place just enough light on the house without casting shadows or shining light into the house next door.
These trade skills prove extremely valuable in Houston suburbs such as Pearland, The Woodlands, and Sugar Land where families often have early bed times due to the need to get up early for long commutes and getting young children to school on time.
Landscape Lights
Outdoor light systems can be configured in such a way as to unite Nature and human architecture into a blended whole. Special outdoor tree lights, path lights, garden, and step lights can be installed along an illuminated network of natural vantage points that in turn serve as points of aesthetic definition and function as practical anchors for critical fixtures, transformers, and landscape lighting accessories necessary to linking system components together.
ILD is one of the few residential landscape lighting contractors that uses only environmentally-friendly outdoor lights and installs them using special techniques that protect trees from scarring and ensure their future growth.
In Royal Oaks, these techniques have worked hand in glove with special deed restrictions landscape and whole house lights in lieu of prohibited streetlights.
Deck and Patio Outdoor Lights
As homeowners cut personal fuel costs and increasingly entertain at home, deck lights, garden and patio lights have risen in popularity throughout Houston neighborhoods such as Spring Valley, Hedwig Village, West University, and Rice Village.
Decks and patios can be lit with minimal power costs by using a combination of led lights and lighting controls, making it possible to have cool-burning lights left on throughout the night into the wee hours of the morning.
Security Lights and Alarm System Integration
ILD professionals will make even the most powerful, High Intensity Discharge security lights cost effective by linking them to lighting controls and motion sensors that only turn the main floodlights on if human body movements are detected.
Perimeter lighting can be done by using a variety of low voltage lighting fixtures that keep shadows away from the corners of the house and yard.
We will also connect your security lights to your existing alarm system, and we can install manual controls that will enable you to instantly turn on every indoor and outdoor light in the event of suspicious activity or impending home invasion.
Working with the experienced professionals at Illuminations Lighting Design combines the value of commercial grade outdoor light fixtures and the advanced design and electrical skills of one of Houston’s premier electrical and design service firms. We offer landscape lighting maintenance agreements to keep your system in tip top condition.
Contact us today Toll-Free at 1-800-863-1184 for a free consultation. We are located in Houston Texas but provide lighting and design services in Austin TX, El Paso Texas, San Antonio TX, College Station Texas, Beaumont TX, Dallas Texas, Midland Tx and points beyond.
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