ILD creates custom house lighting plans for the eclectic homeowner who is looking to transform his or her home interior into truly exceptional living space. House lighting plans are always unique and very personalized because they are meant to function as an extension of the homeowner’s mind and a reflection of personal taste. This requires extensive consultation to understand the desires and needs of the homeowner, and it takes a great deal of professional know-how to transfer the purely conceptual elements of a client’s "wish list" into a workable house decorative lighting plan that blends function and form. It also requires superior grade lighting fixtures that are designed with energy efficiency and extended lamp life in mind. This keeps operating and replacement costs to a minimum and allows for a network of interconnected subsystems to be linked together so that each element of home interior lighting design compliments and contributes to the success of all other elements in the overall scheme.
The lifestyle of the homeowner is the foundation of the entire house lighting plan.
Some custom homeowners see their home as a sanctuary to which they can retreat at the end of the day to get away from the stress and worry of busy urban life. Many of these people save their money and eventually move into a large custom home at the end of a long narrow street, or in a rural area just outside of a major city and require outdoor tree lighting. Such a home needs sophisticated layered lighting effects that can be dimmed at will to create a more relaxed mood and feeling of retreat from the outside world.
Other homeowners see their house more as a hub of entertainment and socializing. Sophisticated lighting themes, home automation systems, and one-touch controls are essential, supportive elements to high-end media systems such as whole house audio and home theaters. Dedicated circuitry is often required to power the lights and the equipment in these systems, and our licensed electrical service personal can provide this service as a part of your house lighting plan.
The homeowner’s decorative tastes define the aesthetics of any home lighting system.
No custom home can be complete without new home wiring, high-end decorations and fine furnishings. House lighting planners have to remain ever mindful of interior decorating and make certain that they isolate the major motifs in the home’s interior decor. Accent lights are critical components in almost every house lighting plan. They have to be concealed as much as possible, and they must feature the very best in optics and glare shielding so as to place just the right amount of lighting in key portions of the home’s interior.
Fine art and specialty lighting constitute sub-disciplines unto themselves, and require specialized equipment found only through a professional firm such as our own.
House lighting plans must never lose sight of practicality.
The successful blend of function and form for which our firm has earned great renown is due largely to our expertise in home wiring and electrical service work, and also to our extensive knowledge of residential architecture. Our lighting designers clearly understand the simple fact that no matter how ornately decorated a custom home is, at the end of the day, it is still essentially a functional living space where all the practical needs of daily life are attended to. While there are many consultants who can achieve amazing effects in specialty lighting, art lighting, and accent lighting, few companies like ours can do all of these things and at the same time create a house lighting plan with photometric lighting calculations that provides general and task lighting for the basic activities of home living.
Where is your lighting design studio located?
We are located in the heart of Houston just west of Downtown at the corner of Durham Drive and Blossom Street, which is located between Memorial Drive and Washington Avenue in the Rice Military Subdivision.
Although we are located in Houston Texas we 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.Call us today at 713-863-1133, visit our lighting blog or request a consultation online using our contact us form.Labels: Architectural Lighting Houston Texas, Art Lighting Consultants, Home Lighting Plans, House Lighting Plans, Houston Home Light Plans, Texas Residential Lighting Plans
Home lighting designers employee of art, math, and hard science to create new, personalized living spaces in custom homes. Energy efficiency is top priority in both the planning and installation of new equipment, and great care is taken from an interior design perspective to make certain that the new light fixtures installed do not cost the homeowner an arm and a leg in electrical expenses. Custom home lighting design is a complimentary aesthetic intended to harmoniously and seamlessly blend into the many facets of daily life and entertainment. Working with a professional team who has been cross-trained in decorative science and licensed in electrical engineering and extensively trained in interior design will ensure the most personalized and custom lighting systems attainable with today’s luminaire technology.
Analysis of energy efficiency
Because energy efficiency constitutes a now global concern in almost every industry, home lighting designers must begin their work with a careful analysis of existing fixtures. Because California has already banned incandescent lighting, homeowners across the nation have already begun retrofitting store-bought fluorescent bulbs to lamps and overhead lights in places like the living room, bedroom, kitchen, and bathroom. These lights indeed save a great deal of power and last for many years as promised. Many times, though, they do not provide an adequate match to the existing fixtures into which they are installed, and the quality of home decorative lighting may diminish if a proper analysis of the equipment is not conducted by a lighting design professional. By examining what has already been installed in a custom home at the time of build out, and by itemizing any subsequent retrofits, ILD technicians can quickly determine the best course of action for the planning of a new system.
Photometric study of lighting levels
To correctly assess both the efficiency and the quality of home lighting, and to design a superior system in the process, our professionals perform a systematic and photometric analysis of your home’s lighting fixtures using a point-by-point scientific procedure. This is done with a highly sophisticated home lighting design software program that allows us to three-dimensionally render every room in your home and see what it would look like with different fixtures, lamps, and angles of lighting incidence. We can literally make a movie of your own home and take you on a walk through of any number of proposed home theater lighting designs we conceptualize as options for you to consider. This gives you the power to see results prior to spending any money, and to choose the best system for your personal lifestyle and entertainment requirements.
Creating of layered lighting effects
Our Houston lighting designers have earned a reputation for leadership in our industry for our unique ability to combine for home lighting design with home lighting controls. By laying down multiple layers of light, we can any atmosphere in any area of your home. When linked to lighting controls, we can use the same fixtures to program multiple lighting themes that can make the same room look like many different rooms, depending on the activities occurring in that part of your home at the time. These controllable layers of light have a powerful effect on human emotions and can be used to set the tone for family gatherings, home theater, musical appreciation, fine art collecting, displays of collectibles, and parties. With the right combination of home automation services and manual controls, you can have instant, one-touch access to a myriad of colors, brightness levels, and special lighting effects throughout the house.
Installation of fixtures with better glare shielding, reflectors, and lamping technology
When it comes to recessed lighting fixtures themselves, our company is a firm believer in taking a “less is more” approach to the actual number of equipment pieces we install. If you place too many visible light fixtures in a room, you can clutter the interior aesthetic and quickly diminish its ambiance. One of our specialties is to room, to conceal whatever fixtures we install as much as possible, relying on precise, mathematical calculation of optimal lighting angles to get more light out of a single lamp. We use only professional landscape lights that are engineered with the best optics, glare shielding, and lamping technology available from today’s top manufacturers. Our equipment is 100% American-made, factory-grade, and backed up with written warranties from our nation’s leading manufacturers. We aim to give you the best in both design and technology so that reduced power costs and minimized replacements help recover your investment over the years to come.
It starts with a simple phone call
Whether or not we are helping you play or work, every home lighting systems is designed to meet the practical needs and personal tastes of the eclectic custom homeowner. Contact us today and request a complimentary initial consultation to assess your home’s current lighting system and see what design and functional improvements can be made that will improve the practical and aesthetic elements of your home’s interior and save you money over time. Regardless of your needs, we can assist with any Houston home repairs.
Where is your main office located?
We are situated in the heart of Houston just west of Downtown at the corner of Durham Drive and Blossom Street, which is located between Memorial Drive and Washington Avenue in the Rice Military Subdivision. Although we are located in Houston Texas we 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.Call us today at 713-863-1133, visit our lighting blog or request a consultation online using our contact us form.Labels: Home Lighting Design Plans, Houston Fine Art Lighting Experts, Lighting Designers Texas, Texas Residential Lighting Plans
