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.
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The front facade of the River Oaks Country Club preeminently defines the evening sky for all those who travel along River Oaks Boulevard at night. Rising into the darkness like an edifice of light, it serves as a monument to the eclectic sensibilities of architecture and lifestyle that has made River Oaks premier among the world's finest neighborhoods. It is a matter of historical fact that River Oaks Country Club played a pivotal role in the development of the surrounding community, which quickly earned its reputation as prime real estate located around one of the finest golf courses in the nation. When it came time to remodel the clubhouse, River Oaks Country Club awarded Illuminations Lighting and Design an exclusive landscape and architectural lighting design contract. We implemented a plan of action that resulted in clearly showcasing the many fine points of River Oaks Country Club building design, decorum, and exquisite landscaping that would otherwise become invisible after sunset.
Conjunctive to the clubhouse remodel, we illuminated the entire facade of the building so that the angles and physical structures of the clubhouse stand out from all angles of approach along River Oaks Drive. Whenever River Oaks Country Club members and guests attend nighttime events, the very first thing they see as they approach the facility is the illuminated edifice of the building inviting them to an evening of luxury and relaxed entertainment. To create this effect, the ILD consulting team drew upon years of training and experience in advanced commercial architectural lighting techniques. Using only the best equipment from major manufacturers with whom we have solid, ongoing relationships, we minimized the physical appearance of the lighting fixtures to better enhance and highlight the aesthetic of the building itself. Our team has cross-trained with many architectural firms to learn these subtle installation techniques that are absolutely essential to successfully light a main facility like the one at River Oaks Country Club. The outcome has been pleasing to all who now visit the facility, who feel the enhanced, unobstructed view of the building helps to set the mood for sophisticated, relaxed evening entertainment.
River Oaks Country Club also requested that our team provide accent lighting for their outdoor decorum. River Oaks Country Club lines the walkways of the property leading too and from the clubhouse with groupings of urns, flowers, and benches. People can enjoy greenery, flowers, and outdoor seating under the shade of large trees whenever they move between the clubhouse and the outdoor facilities. Illuminations Lighting installed accent lights that allow River Oaks Country Club members and guests to clearly see the walkways and decorations whenever strolling outside during evening visits and nighttime gatherings. This is very important to the world of country club lighting, as many evening events that occur at the clubhouse may also coordinate with other events involving outdoor dining, lakeside gatherings, pools and spas in certain facilities, and of course, sporting events—all of which require proper lighting both for the safety and the sensibilities of their membership.
From within the clubhouse itself, members and guests can enjoy a relaxed evening free from stress of Houston's busy streets and growing parking problems. They can see clearly through the clubhouse windows onto the River Oaks Country Club Vista and enjoy the ornate landscaping, decorum, and fine greenery of the golf course. Using environmentally friendly equipment and installation methods, we enhanced the view of the River Oaks Country Club Lake with moon/shadow lighting techniques that cast pools of illumination downward from fixtures hidden within the trees. To accentuate the physical tree line surrounding the grounds, we selectively employed tree canopy lights to up light the trees themselves, thus giving a sense of natural perimeter to the ground by uniting indigenous vegetation with human engineering. The result is a blended experience for the diner where art, design, architecture, and nature become one singular, fine, memorable event.
Illuminations Lighting and Design is proud to have partnered with the many fine people of River Oaks Country Club to create a landscape and architectural lighting experience complimentary to the tastes and expectations of both the members and the surrounding community. ILD consultants will travel to any location to complete similar design projects for country clubs, hotels, and resorts throughout the United States looking to showcase their amenities both day and night. Contact us today at 713-863-1133 for a complimentary, in-depth consultation.
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