Protecting Your Home From Lightning and Electrical SurgesThe Houston area is more than familiar with nature’s light show as it flashes across the sky. The Space City’s recent storms more than prove how important surge protection in your home can be.According to the Insurance Information Institute, over $800 million in lightning claims was paid out to property owners in 2016. Many claims due to lightning are
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Illuminations Lighting Blog
Lighting from Above
Ceiling lights are most effective when they produce multiple layers of light that provide a sense of sourcelessness to both task and decorative lighting types. Ideally, ceiling lighting should minimize the physical appearance of fixtures and create an even distribution of general lighting that maintains at all times appropriate levels of light necessary in whatever environment they are located. With very few
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Art Lighting Showcases Your Artwork Like a Pro
A new masterpiece graces the once empty wall in your home. You feel the pride and joy that often comes with adding a piece of art to your collection. You’re ready for it to be admired. But, what’s the best way to display it and show it to your friends and family?
Art lighting showcases your art like a professional.
Whether you’ve gotten your art from a high-end auction house, or you’ve painted
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Electrical Services
Electrical Services
Truly effective Texas electrical service requires much more than simple wiring and electricity. Today’s houses and buildings are so much more sophisticated than they were in the past; featuring more elaborate floor plans, more space consolidation, automated wiring and more custom interior architecture.When you find yourself facing a basic or minor electrical problem, more than likely you
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Outdoor Lighting Design
Outdoor lighting design can create a unifying aesthetic between the natural and the man made.
Houses, yards, landscape features, trees, indigenous vegetation, patios, gazebos, and gardens can all be made to look like they not only fit together, but belong together. There is a vast multitude of fixture types and lamping options to consider when planning an outdoor garden lighting system, and there is a
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Landscape Lighting with a Plan
Your yard and landscape are just as much a part of your home as your house...so planning your landscape lighting should be done with as much care as you have taken to light your home’s interior. Covered patios and porches, and outdoor entertaining areas may need indoor lighting techniques such as recessed down lights and wall box dimmer controls that allow you to adjust light levels, show off the structure, and make
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Fine Art Lighting that really Wows!
Art Lighting
Fine paintings are used as ornate decorations in custom homes and in offices. This is not surprising when you stop to realize has been with in one form or fashion for at least 40,000 years. Light in a paintings itself contributes to the tone of the work by creating a sense of depth through the interplay of light and shadows. Lighting for paintings should not cast shadows, however, but rather must
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Tree Lighting
Tree lighting
is one of the most superb forms of lighting design. Any landscape with large enough trees will be enhanced by this highly sophisticated and innovative lighting technique. Tree lighting is done by concealing mercury vapor lights in the higher branches of the tree where they cannot be seen by viewers on the ground. Mercury vapor lights give off a blue-white light very similar to moonlight that filters
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Lighting Design for your next project
Lighting design for your next residential or commercial project
Some folks ask themselves, "Why is it so hard for builders and architects to get it right?" Do you do residential lighting design?"Residential lighting design is just one major discipline in the overall home building process. Architects and builders have a daunting task of deciding and tracking every detail of the process and often time lighting
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Built to Last
For aesthetics or practical use
We’re into the second century since Thomas Edison first commercialized the electric incandescent light bulb. The tide of progress has not halted it has increased—and modern lighting is not only up to 90% more efficient, but it's thousands of times more durable.
Progress
Edison was pleased when he could make a single light bulb operate for an entire day without failing. We now
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