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Thursday, January 07, 2010

Residential & Commercial Lighting Design

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.

We invite you to contact us at 713-863-1133 or online using our handy request design consultation form.

Since 1980 we have been providing Houston Texas lighting services, Austin TX lighting design , El Paso Texas consulting, San Antonio TX lighting installations, College Station Texas landscape lighting, Beaumont Texas lighting art lighting, Dallas Texas lighting design, Midland Tx lighting designs and points beyond.

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Friday, February 01, 2008

Landscape Lighting Services, Commercial Lighting Design, Home Lighting Controls & Automation in San Antonio Texas.

San Antonio lighting clients can depend on ILD for more than technical abilities and equipment. Our lighting systems are developed with the word “design” foremost in mind, and they are built with knowledge gained from extensive cross training in architecture, interior decorating, art lighting, and landscaping.

Commercial Lighting Design Company San Antonio Texas
San Antonio commercial lighting clients can benefit from using ILD as a single source for all of their electrical, commercial interior lighting, and art lighting services. We build cost savings our systems with low voltage transformers and fixtures, and we install systems to last for years to come

All of the equipment we use is made from top commercial grade materials that minimize the needs for replacement and frequent maintenance.

Commercial Landscape Lighting San Antonio Texas
We use four layers of landscape lighting to unite building architecture with the surrounding Natural landscape, and we make the entire property stand out in the process. Trees play a special role in our systems both in forming natural boundaries and as keynotes within the landscape. We use only environmentally friendly equipment and installation methods as an outdoor lighting company to ensure that no trees are ever harmed in our designs.

We also place special emphasis on ponds, fountains, and other landscaping water works—an added value for clients located near the River Walk

Hospitality Lighting Design San Antonio Texas
Interior hospitality lighting design is aimed at creating a sense of comfort, relaxation, and getaway in San Antonio restaurants, hotels, and country clubs. Functional lights are installed in a fashion that layers light and supports the many elements of interior decorating, art, interior atmosphere, and special events that characterize the surrounding environment.

Our hospitality lighting design services are targeted toward the bungalow and Old Spanish style architecture that characterizes the San Antonio River Walk. Buildings here consistently feature soft curves and bends that speak to a sense of relaxation and comfort. In order to highlight the uniqueness of these buildings without diminishing their attractiveness, we use special lighting fixtures installed in concealed locations so that sourceless light brings out the color and depth of each architectural element.

Home Lighting Design San Antonio Texas
Home lighting in San Antonio requires careful attention to personal desire and lifestyle. The system must be installed in such a way as to reflect the values, taste, and activities of a particular family so that function becomes and extension of thought and light becomes a form of decorum within itself.

Lighting controls by leading manufacturers such as Vantage, Lutron, and AMX are key elements to lighting in San Antonio homes. They are user friendly, and they allow function to follow thought and for light to become an interactive decorum.

These home automation controls can be taken one step further without complicating their use. Multiple lighting themes can be programmed into a different system, allowing the same group of lights to create different combinations, levels, and colors of illumination. They can even be integrated into home theater and whole house audio concepts in a way that unites lighting with home theater and whole house audio.

Custom Design
All residential, commercial, and hospitality lighting systems are custom designed and installed on location throughout San Antonio. Click here to read about each of our many specializations in greater detail.

Whether you need lighting design services or a landscape lighting services, Illuminations is ready to provide the right light. Why not call us toll free at 800-863-1184 to discuss your project with a lighting professional.

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Wednesday, July 06, 2005

What are the major advantages to using a lighting control system instead of wall box dimmers?

You're wise to be considering a lighting control system - there are many advantages! One of the main features that our clients like is that with a dimming system you can potentially control ANY of the loads on the system from ANY of the controls or keypads. Additionally you can CHANGE though programming what each keypad controls at any point in the future should your mind change - not something you can do with hardwired switches. This may seem somewhat frivolous at first, but can actually be an excellent tool for both convenience and safety. For example: You can program a button at the top of your stairs to turn off all of the lights downstairs - handy for coming to bed at the end of a long day. Likewise you can have a button by your garage that will turn off any lights that have been left on throughout the house - great for convenience and energy savings! Or turn on a pathway of lights when you come home.

A lot of people like that they can have a "panic" button in their bedroom that, when pressed, will turn on all the lights on the house (or a select pathway), a comforting feature should you think you hear an intruder or have a medical emergency. You can even have, for instance, your front porch lights flash when this button is pressed to guide authorities to the correct house in the event of an emergency. A one-button-control for multiple loads is handy aesthetically too. Assuming your lighting design includes circuits for ambient lights, multiple accent groupings, decorative lights, task, lamps, etc, you will have many loads in each room. To have to turn on, let alone "set," each of these loads every time you walk in the room would be a huge disruption. Instead you can have one keypad at the door with preset scenes that will bring up all the right loads to the right level.

An additional benefit to a lighting control system is that it has several built in features. Among them is an astronomical time clock that allows you, for example, to set your landscape lighting to come on at sunset everyday and turn off at sunrise. No more having to change a time clock from 5 to 6 to 7 as the seasons change, dealing with faulty photocells, or worse, having to remember to turn switches on and off.

One of the favorite benefits of a Lutron Radio Ra lighting control system, from an aesthetic standpoint, is simply that you have much less wall clutter. As I mentioned, once you get several circuits in a large room (and often multiple entries from which to control them) you can literally wind up with banks of wall box dimmers a foot or more in length at each door. That's neither convenient nor attractive! Putting all those loads on a control system will allow you to have one sleek keypad the size of a single switch or (smaller) in any location that you want control.

For more information on lighting control systems please contact the home automation department at Illuminations Lighting Design or call toll free at 800-863-1184.

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