Illuminations Lighting Design is the only “One Stop” destination for lighting design, engineering, landscape lighting services and installation in the state of Texas, and remains unrivaled by any lighting firm in the United States for lighting that is art. As homes grow larger and needs become more complex, having a single resource provides home owners with peace of mind. This translates into a smoother process, reduced costs and a better product.
Like fine wine, Illuminations has matured and become a classic for those clients with a discriminating palate for comfort, mood and ambiance.
Here are just a few testimonials from our growing list of list of satisfied customers:
We have certainly enjoyed working with you and all the wonderful lighting professionals from Illuminations Lighting Design. I just wanted you to know that we get many compliments from our friends and family on both our interior artwork lighting and outdoor tree lighting. Of all the amenities we have added to our home over the years, nothing has been more enjoyable than the lighting. Thank you!
Kyra Janke
Houston, Texas
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The wedding is over and all went very well. All the "older" relatives got here and back to Wisconsin and Michigan safely. Several times when I have been out in the front yard people have stopped and asked who is your outdoor lighting contractor? You may be getting some calls. Everything looks just wonderful! The roses are just breathtaking under the new lighting. I love just walking up to the front door. A lady stopped by just this morning and commented how good it looks at night. Thank you.
Linda Condon
Houston, Texas
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It is unbelievable the difference the new lighting made in our backyard. The tree lights create the perfect glow for the patio and the lights on the sculpture/artwork accent them in ways which allow you to see how truly beautiful they are. The lighting consultant knew exactly what we needed within minutes. And, he was honest in his assessment. He also recommended gas lanterns which they don't even sell, but he knew they would look spectacular. He was right. And, their electrical contracting services for installation was prompt and worry-free.
Steve Weingarten
Houston, TX
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We are really pleased with how (our landscape lighting) all turned out. I have to say that I was told (by others) that I was paying too much, etc. However, you get what you pay for - in both quality of work and the expertise that goes into designing the plan in the first place. Plus, I really appreciated the night-time check to fine-tune the lighting. I was floored with the previous firm didn't do this, leaving it up to us (who had no idea exactly what we could achieve). It's been a pleasure working with a true Houston Texas lighting design and installation company!
Toby
Houston, Texas
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Are you interested in learning more about Illuminations Lighting Design? We have created a simple way for you to communicate with us about your lighting needs and SCHEDULING WORK at your home or office. This simple scheduling form is the perfect way to communicate not only with the scheduling department, but also the manager assigned to your account. All messages are sent to multiple recipients. That way your request will not go unnoticed and will be handled efficiently and promptly!
Not really ready to schedule the work yet? Would you like to first have someone come out and meet with you to discuss your project? No problem, try using our online CONTACT US FORM or REQUEST ASSISTANCE DIRECTORY. These handy online tools allow you to tell us more about your project, attach files or identify an individual responsible for processing your specific request! Our local number is 713-863-1133 and our toll free number is 800-863-1184.
Illuminations Lighting Design is a full service design build firm specializing in residential and commercial indoor lighting and outdoor lighting, electrical service and maintenance as well as home automation, home theaters, emergency generators, surge protection systems, phone systems and lighting control systems.
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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Until recently, public cinema held second place only to concert halls in acoustical depth and variety. Because a cinema’s acoustical media is designed with speakers positioned both above and around the audience, (as well as underneath and on each side of the screen) different sounds emanate from different points in the room. Dialogue flows from the speakers in front of the screen to mimic real life speech. Sounds emanating from the surrounding set come from speakers positioned along walls and ceilings, creating the illusion that audience members are actually within the movie along side of the characters. This is extremely difficult-- if not impossible-- to duplicate with retail equipment and homemade media designs. Effective home theater acoustics require advanced, formal training in architectural theory and the acoustical qualities of specific construction materials. Only through a licensed distributor such as ILD can a homeowner acquire both the level of technical sophistication and the media design skills required to create a truly authentic, life-like surround sound experience.
High-end media design requires equal levels of interdisciplinary skills to truly rival the large screen and advanced color-rendering capabilities of a movie theater screen. No home theater screen equates in physical dimensions to the wall-sized screens in movie houses. As such, even the most sophisticated media design using the most advanced equipment has to compensate for this obvious difference in size with an illusion of vastness and a color rendering index that in many cases has to surpass theater screens to achieve the same optical effect. It takes a designer’s eye for proportion and perspective to know where in the room to position the screen so that the video itself appears to fill an entire wall even though the screen itself may not physically do so. It takes a technical expert in many discipline-- natural lighting, viewing angles, photo metrics, interior lighting and decorating, and advanced media design-- to know which type of projector and screen will work best with a particular home theater system.
As premier consultants serving all of greater Texas and specializing in high-end clientele throughout Houston, the media design services at Illuminations Lighting blend a sophisticated interdisciplinary skill set into a customized, highly individualized home theater experience. Media design entails much more than choosing equipment and self-installing that equipment in a room large enough to entertain family and friends. True media design consists of architectural and acoustical analytics, systematic analysis of natural and indoor lighting levels, and superior interior design skills that maintain aesthetic balance while delivering optimum technical performance. Throughout Houston’s premier neighborhoods, homeowners enjoy professional-grade equipment available only through specialty dealers such as ILD networked into sophisticated home automation controls that make wish command at the push of a button.
Click here to read more about this exciting blend of science, and art in this and many other related articles on our site.
For a personal consultation with our Director of Home Automation and Theater, call 713-863-1133 and ask to speak with our home automation department to schedule a free appointment.
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A home is not just a house. A home is a sanctuary, an abode, a reflection of your inner being and deepest values. As such, the outdoor portion of your property can be just as much a home to you as the interior of your dwelling. Residential landscape lighting can extend your home atmosphere into every square inch your property, turning darkness into a decorative living experience unsurpassed by those around you. With Illuminations Lighting Design as your consulting partner in this venture, you can express your own inner vision for an outdoor living experience with a residential landscape lighting theme that complements function and entertainment with a singular aesthetic. You need more than just the right equipment to achieve this. Clients need the best landscape lights and fixtures for residential outdoor design, and you need technicians who can plan and implement that design with respect to your personal lifestyle and sensibilities.
As more and more people are installing floodlights, security lights, and patio lights, there will be nothing unique about one more home on the block having an illuminated yard. In fact, certain lights purchased from typical retailers can even degrade the quality of the home by making it look generic and equivalent to neighboring residences. Lighting design is more than technology. It is an art and a science unto itself. ILD will set your home apart from the ones around you with a residential landscape lighting theme that complements the design and style of your dwelling's architecture. Every house is unique in some capacity, and ILD knows this. Our specialists have trained extensively in construction techniques and have spent many years learning how to spot key points of distinction that make a house one of kind. After extensive consultation with a home owner, and after careful analysis of the physical residence, our landscape lighting design team will know exactly what equipment to use and what installation strategies to implement to make your home stand out as your neighborhood's supreme example of excellence. By utilizing shadows and light, we can create sub themes within the overall theme of your residential landscape lighting design, and we can take this effect one step further with home lighting automation strategies that allows you to directly manipulate and alter these effects at will.
We have a number of residential landscaping and lighting techniques that offer you benefits few, if any, other companies can implement. We train our staff to look for ways to utilize every feature of a yard as a residential landscape lighting element or compliment. With special mounting techniques that are tree and plant friendly, we can utilize living things themselves as decorative elements without harm or detriment to life or its quality. With an advanced knowledge of mathematics and geometry, our certified technicians know where to find the very best angles for installation so unsightly equipment remains hidden from normal view. With low voltage residential landscape lighting equipment, and with special fixtures designed specifically for patio lighting, tree lighting, floodlighting, and fountain lighting, we can minimize glare and objectionable hot spots, creating the illusion of sourceless light that appears to spring spontaneously from the ether itself.
Don't neglect the outdoor portions of your property as mere ground your home sits on. Call Illuminations Lighting Design to turn your entire property into an innovative and complementary expression of the meaning of "home." Residential landscape lighting is more than a service offering. It's a living experience you'll enjoy for countless years to come. Contact us online or call us today at 713-863-1133 or toll free at 800-863-1184.
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Outdoor lighting maintenance can be more complicated than you think. Even changing a low voltage halogen light bulb, for instance, can require knowledge that only a trained outdoor lighting maintenance professional would know. Specifications not available to consumers can determine mission critical success or failure of a replacement. Reliable and lasting results depend on knowing what wattage the fixture is designed for, what beam spread the lamp uses for various results, and what temperatures allow the light to burn with optimal safety and maximum half-life. The outdoor lighting maintenance team here at ILD is here to help you with any questions and to develop replacement and upgrade solutions that will protect both your investment and personal safety anytime you think you might have a problem.
Many things in life can and should bring great satisfaction to the "do it yourselfer", but ELECTRICAL WORK IS NOT ONE OF THEM. Because of the hazards of shock and electrical failure, we always caution even the savviest and most mechanically inclined to contract their outdoor lighting maintenance from trained and certified electrical professionals. Even if you took an electronics course in college or trade school and feel confident you know wiring and lighting, please understand that technology evolves more rapidly each day, and every piece of new equipment has a mind of its own, so to speak, when it comes to interacting with other pieces of equipment. Some outdoor lighting fixtures, such as HID fixtures, require the use of a ballast to drive the lamp. Maintenance professionals are normally the only people with access to the right ballast models and with the necessary training to install them. Low voltage fixtures require a 12-volt power supply, and mismatching a low voltage light with a high voltage power supply can blow out the light instantly. Even more discouraging to a consumer who has just purchased some of the newer MR16 lamps is the sinking feeling of doing everything right and then watching the bulb prematurely fail in a matter of days. This happens with MR16 lamps because the glass envelope that constitutes the light's reflectors is highly sensitive to oil. Just a small deposit from a person's fingers can cause premature burnout. An even more serious situation results when a homeowner mistakenly installs an indoor light designed for dry locations in their back or front yard. Houston humidity can quickly cause a short circuit that could result in severe or even fatal electrocution.
Outdoor lighting maintenance involves more than simply replacing faulty equipment. It involves optimizing existing equipment configurations so that homeowners can receive the best return on their financial investment possible and maintain the highest value that outdoor lighting brings to their property. We often change groupings of lamps to address lamp depreciation, color shift, and normal life expectancy. Outdoor lighting maintenance professionals from ILD can add value to service by replacing halogen lamps with a 4000 average lamp life with mercury vapor lamps with a 24,000-hour average lamp life. Mercury vapor lights also produce better illumination because they install in trees and cast a soft glow downward. Definitely call an outdoor lighting maintenance professional to install these tree lights. You can fall off a ladder or scar your tree in an attempt to install one yourself. ILD uses professional tree climbers to install these fixtures and uses techniques that are safe and environmentally "tree friendly."
Outdoor lighting maintenance professionals not only have mastered the basics, but also retrain annually in new technology seminars so they can help our customers with all of these variables and find the best and most affordable solution to whatever maintenance needs their outdoor lighting design requires. Call us now at 713-863-1133 to see what we can do to help you improve your property, peace of mind, and personal well being today.
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It's springtime in Houston Texas and nothing makes that yard look better at night than a quality, professionally designed outdoor landscape lighting system from Illuminations Lighting Design.
ILD has been designing, installing, servicing and maintaining landscape lighting systems throughout Houston, Austin and San Antonio for over 27 years. Their experienced team of landscape lighting designers can assist you with a lighting design or no obligation cost study for any size home or business.
Their landscape lighting crews are some of the best in the business. They understand how light works and where the light should go to maximize your visual nighttime enjoyment. No tree is too high for ILD professional tree climbers! Illuminations Lighting Design is experienced in all forms of outdoor landscape lighting from simple low voltage systems to more complicated high voltage HID lighting systems.
Illuminations Lighting Design stocks a full range of landscape lighting materials such as bullet fixtures, hard to find lamps and replacement parts for all types of outdoor lighting equipment, regardless of the manufacturer. ILD not only services what they sell, but they can assist you with repairs or maintenance to existing outdoor landscape lighting systems installed by their competitors. All of ILD's technicians are experienced licensed professionals and they subcontract no work to outside vendors.
- They use only state of the art landscape lighting techniques and commercial grade lighting equipment.
Facade Lighting - Your home will glow with understated elegance and beauty from small halogen lighting fixtures hidden and concealed in the landscaping.
Security Lighting - Keeping customers safe and secure with outdoor security floods and motion sensors is one of their specialties.
Accent lighting - Highlighting works of art, architectural elements or other features in the garden is no problem for Illuminations Lighting Design.
Path lighting - Whether you are looking for a safe passage into you house or going for a casual stroll in the garden, ILD has just the right light source for the job.
Water Feature Lighting - Nothing looks better in the garden than a well lighted fountain or waterfall from Illuminations Lighting Design.
Illuminations Lighting Design brings unparalleled knowledge by master lighting designers to perfectly enhance the beauty of your surroundings with elegant outdoor landscape lighting. Contact them today to learn more about outdoor landscape lighting.
The results will be spectacular!
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Recently, I met with a couple who had just moved to Houston from Southern California. They had moved into a very nice neighborhood with a large home, on a large lot, that had extensive landscaping. They had found our name in the phone book and were entertaining bids from several companies for
LANDSCAPE LIGHTING. During the course of my conversation, she asked me a simple question. "What makes your company so special and how do you differ from other landscape lighting companies"? Here is what I told the clients that day ......
Illuminations Lighting Design is a 30 year old company with some of the best lighting designers, technicians and electrician's money can buy. Our client base includes some of the finest and most recognizable names in Texas and across the country. We are known as the guys who do it right!
We evolved into a full service lighting company that does not only landscape lighting but, residential and
commercial lighting projects,
home automation designs,
home theaters,
lighting control systems,
fine art lighting,
antique cabinet lighting and whole house
transient voltage protection. Not only can we design these systems, but install, service and maintain these and other lighting and electrical systems. Illuminations has a war chest of talent like no other company of its size. Specialists, each in their respective fields focus on certain aspects of the project so that no detail is overlooked. As a team, Illuminations Lighting Design can create a total solution.
When Illuminations Design is on a project, we take into consideration not only your exterior lighting, but how that intertwines with your interior lighting design, to provide a total lighting solution. Like music, lighting sets the mood. Not ever home has this harmony, and we are specialists at transforming any home into a lighting masterpiece.
Other landscape lighting companies generally focus on one aspect and cannot attend to any lighting need you may have. So whether you need a plug added in the house, a light for a new painting, surge protection to protect your whole house, a home theater or whole house sound system, you can count on Illuminations Lighting Design to handle those requests.
It was shortly after that meeting, that my proposal was accepted and the work was completed. Here is what the client told me after we were finished ......
I wanted to thank you for such a wonderful job planning and executing the lighting plan for our home and backyard. Our enjoyment of these spaces has been greatly enhanced by your expertise and recommendations. Additionally, I was very impressed by how punctual and in what a timely fashion the work was completed. It was a pleasure working with you and be assured that we will confidently recommend you and Illuminations to our friends. Thank you again.
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We have a Landscape Client Gallery on our web site that contains many digital images of our Landscape Lighting work.
Our staff of Landscape Lighting designers and licensed installers are both uniquely qualified in all forms of landscape lighting techniques. Whether you are looking for a simple low voltage lighting system, or a more comprehensive moonlighting installation, the professionals at Illuminations Lighting Design can turn your home and landscaping into a nighttime masterpiece.
For more information regarding a landscape lighting design services, repairs or installation please contact Rick Luberger by email or by phone at 832-607-5200.
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My husband and I are looking to hire a professional to install some landscape lighting. We got an estimate from a company who installs high voltage lighting... Their work looks beautiful on the photos, but the estimate was quite high. Then, we invited a company that does low voltage lighting, and the estimate was $5000 less. However, I am concerned about longevity and practicality of low voltage lighting. Will it last? And will the landscapers run over the cables and cut it? Will it be too obviously visible and unattractive? What do the experts think?
It sounds like you have a fairly large project to warrant such a discrepancy in price. This is primarily due to the equipment, method of installation and labor costs. Both systems should be installed by a licensed electrician and according to National Electrical Code. High voltage systems require the use of conduits that should be buried 6" deep for galvanized rigid steel and 18" deep for PVC conduit. Low voltage systems utilize direct burial cable and should also be buried 18" deep to prevent damage to the cable when digging in the flower beds. Most low voltage lighting contractors rarely bury the cable that deep.I suspect the first contractor recommended the use of mercury vapor lighting, which is typical for landscape lighting professionals. Lights mounted high in the trees are a very attractive way to illuminate the yard with moonlight illumination. These types of lights are low maintenance and will give you years of service. This is a much more dramatic and heavy duty approach as the price would indicate.
Low voltage lights can be a very effective lighting system when installed properly for several reasons. First of all the lights are typically small and can be moved as the garden grows. The best part is that can be easily serviced and maintained by the customer. The down side is that they do require more maintenance and are susceptible to damage if the cable is not buried properly. We rarely install low voltage lights as down lights in trees.So, I like to use a combination of high and low voltage lights in my designs. Use mercury vapor in the trees and low voltage lights to illuminate small specimen trees, paths and the facade of the house.
I would recommend that you visit some of their jobs to see the equipment and to better understand both wiring methods. There is a big diffence!
Good Luck!
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