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Tuesday, December 08, 2009

Lighting Design & Electrical Contracting

A typical Illuminations design is one where every painting, armoire, wall sconce, chandelier, recessed light and landscape light works in harmony to create a pleasant, functional and stimulating environment. Flexible enough to adapt to your daily needs, yet sensitive enough to set the most delicate mood.

Residential Lighting Design & Consultation
Lighting has the unique ability to reveal the world around us, shaping our vision and determining both the beauty and function of our surroundings. Illumination can sculpt spaces and create an infinite palette of different moods, but it can also render a space flat, harsh and uninviting if not applied with thought, care and knowledge. The experienced lighting designers and lighting consultants of Illuminations Lighting Design understand this elusive science. They also know their tools--the world's best lighting products--and how to effectively harness them.

Did you know we do lighting design and lighting installation professional in the following major cities in Texas?
Austin Texas Lighting Design

Houston Texas Lighting Design

San Antonio Texas Lighting Design

Beaumont Texas Lighting Design

Landscape Lighting Services
If you have invested considerable energy into your outdoor spaces, you certainly will not want to leave them in the dark half of the year. Landscape and Outdoor Garden Lighting allows you to reap a full return on your investment. By highlighting unique architectural features of your building or home, as well as natural textures such as trees, ponds or shrubs, your outdoor spaces will find a second life beneath the moonlight.

Are you looking for landscape lighting design and installation firm in one of the following major Texas cities?
Austin Texas Outdoor Landscape Lighting

Houston Texas Landscape Lighting Design

San Antonio Outdoor Landscape Lighting Designs

Beaumont Landscape Lighting Services

Fine Art & Display LightingServices
Illuminations Lighting Design is a premier fine art lighting company in Houston Texas. We have consulted and lighted some of the world’s most prestigious public and private art collections including works from renowned artists such as Chagall, Picasso, Matisse, Renoir, Rockwell, Salvador Dali and Rembrandt. Employing the most innovative artwork lighting techniques in the world, we can assure you that your treasured pieces will shine as brightly as the artist’s true vision. Fine art lighting services from ILD are second to none.

Are you looking for fine art lighting design and installation company in one of the following major Texas cities?
Austin Texas Art Lighting Design

Beaumont Art Lighting Contractor

Houston Fine Art Lighting Design

San Antonio Fine Art Lighting Design

Residential Electrical Contractors
ILD electrical contracting and electrical services are provided by licensed professionals that understand the importance of working in conjunction with the design team. This ensures that all aspects of indoor illumination, home automation and landscape lighting will have the electrical power needed to function properly and safely. Illuminations Lighting electricians and new home wiring teams get the job done right the first time, allowing you to focus on more important matters—like enjoying your stunning lighting design and automation.

We invite you to contact us at 713-863-1133 or visit us online using our handy request design consultation form. Each area of service is staffed with outstanding experts that understand the impact their efforts have on your home. No other lighting firm is able to provide such a well-rounded service line or a more informative Lighting & Home Automation Blog to our clientele. But do not just take our word for it. Just ask Lance Armstrong, George W. Bush, or dozens of other commercial lighting clients or residential lighting clients, large and small, across the great State of Texas who have enjoyed our lighting services.

Labels: Austin Texas Lighting, Beaumont Texas Lighting, Commercial Lighting Designers, Houston Texas Lighting Designers, Residential Lighting Consultants

Friday, April 13, 2007

Illuminations Lighting Design in Houston Texas wants to Exchange Reciprocal Links

As a lighting design company, we know full well that one of light's most universal and practical qualities is REFLECTION. Just as light reflects and magnifies the interrelationship between all things, reciprocal link partnerships reflect and magnify congruent values and levels of service between organizations. Illuminations Lighting and Design invites you to examine our values and reputation and to consider the many benefits we can deliver to one another by partnering through reciprocal links exchange. Our clients routinely reference our reciprocal links page to find similar companies that can offer them services adjunct to ours. You never know who this networking trail could lead to your door.

Our Houston lighting design business requires a tremendous level of creativity. We work in neighborhoods throughout Houston and greater Texas, and each home we encounter has something special about it that requires us to think outside the box and deliver a truly unique and customized solution. If you are a company like ours that values creativity as the fountainhead of customer service, becoming reciprocal link partners with Illuminations Lighting and Design exposes you to new target markets that will value you as highly as they value us.

As an electrical contractor, we must meet all requirements of state and federal licensing authorities. Knowledge is critical to our operations and success, and our reciprocal link partners routinely read our blog and contact our technicians whenever their clients have a question about landscape lighting, electrical design, fine art lighting or home automation. We welcome reciprocal link exchange partner companies who value knowledge not only as a power, but also as a virtue that enables them to deliver superior value to their clients. Our reciprocal link partnerships are rooted firmly in the ethics of client satisfaction and attention to detail that only a hunger and appreciation of knowledge can produce.

Every company has to start somewhere, and if it persists in determined delivery of results, the experience it acquires hones specific actions that define the organization as a value producer. Our twenty-seven years of experience has made us a leader in our industry and created a number of reciprocal link exchange partnerships that act as bridges between comparable levels of experience in complimentary industries and disciplines. Our clients can literally find much, if not everything they need, simply by referencing partner companies on our reciprocal links exchange page. The complimentary levels of experience and quality results in turn enhance both your reputation and ours as superior value producers in our respective arenas. We invite you to consider joining this link exchange community.

Reputation is earned through consistent actions that improve the quality of client lives either personally, environmentally, or financially. Our reciprocal link partnerships consist of companies like ours who have labored consistently and worked very hard to earn the highest reputation in their communities and industries. When we exchange reciprocal links with partner companies, we are in essence sharing our reputation as well. We invite all who respect the quality of their work and the satisfaction of their clients to share links in reciprocal partnership with Illuminations Lighting and Design.

Finally, we simply cannot say enough about style. Obviously our organization, as a design company, has to pay very close attention to style anytime we undertake a project. Yet there is more to style than design sense, and our reciprocal link partners reflect this awareness with the style of interface and delivery they show toward us and toward their clients. We value ongoing relationships with our customers and our partnerships, and reciprocal linking between partner companies dedicated to style and class only serves to better improve the quality of customer life. If you are looking to work with a truly first class organization and meet the best new clients of your life, trade links with Illuminations Lighting and Design for the benefit of offering impeccable services across the boundaries of industry and discipline.

Contact us at 713-863-1133 if you are interested in learning more about the benefits we can offer each other by exchanging reciprocal links, and hopefully networking partners, in the many years to come.

Labels: Commercial Lighting Designers, Home Automation and Lighting Reciprocal Links, Landscape Lighting Designer, Residential Lighting Consultants

Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Residential lighting California Title 24 Regulations - What is it?

We have received many questions from our lighting design clients regarding California Title 24 issues for both new construction and remoldeling projects. So, we thought it might be helpful to discuss these issues and the regulations.

In order to reduce energy consumption, California has inacted a new energy code policy (Title 24) that significantly impacts lighting in new and remodeled homes. Beginning October 2005, all new and remodeled homes must incorporate energy efficient lighting and controls. Depending on the room in the house, these lighting controls might include the following devices:

Dimmers

Occupancy Sensors
Must be certified Title 24 compliant
Must be manual-on/automatic-off (can also be turned off manually)
Must turn off automatically in 30 minutes Cannot be locked in a permanent "on" state

High efficacy lights - fluorescent, compact fluorescent (CFL) or high-intensity discharge (HID) lamps Fluorescent, CFL, and HID lights must not have a medium screw base socket Lamps rated 13 watts or greater must have an electronic ballast Of these, Lutron dimmers are the most cost effective, consumer friendly solution.

So which room needs what lighting controls you might be asking yourself? Well, this is what the rules state and here are some suggestions:

Living room, bedrooms, family room, and hallways
Dimmers or Occupancy sensor or Fluorescent lighting

Kitchen
Fluorescent lighting - at least 50% of installed wattage must be from fluorescent, CFL or HID lights (13 watts or greater require an electronic ballast)

Incandescent lighting - up to 50% of installed wattage may be incandescent lighting if switched separately

Dimmers - pair with incandescent lighting as an upgrade from a standard switch

Bathrooms, utility rooms, garages, laundry rooms
Fluorescent lighting or occupancy sensors

Exterior security lights (attached to building)
Fluorescent lighting or Incandescent lighting combined with photocell control and/or a motion sensor

If you have any questions regarding California Title 24 regulations, feel free to contact the professional lighting constants at Illuminations Lighting Design toll free at 800-863-1184 for lighting issues. Of course, Title 24 is a complex subject and you can learn more by contacting the California Energy Commission online at http://www.energy.ca.gov/

Labels: Commercial Lighting Designers, Lighting regulations information, Residential Lighting Consultants