Illuminate Your Outdoor Features With These Great Lighting Design Tips
What separates great outdoor lighting design from subpar lighting design? It’s obvious when you see it. It’s the kind of outdoor ambiance that lends a welcoming and inviting atmosphere, long after the sun sets. It illuminates your outdoor features and creates focal points throughout your yard.
It’s easier than you think to create a great
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Decorative Lighting Design from Illuminations Lighting
Decorative Lighting Design
Indoor decorative lighting enhances the interior features of your home without overpowering the general, functional lighting you require for daily life and home security. Within your home’s interior, decorative lights should accentuate key elements of interior design and distinguish works of art and specialty displays with an aura of significance. Interior decorative lighting can also be
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Residential Electrical Contractors, Different Than Commercial
Residential Electrical Contractors
The residential electrical contractor is very different from a commercial electrician. This is due to the vast differences between the two working environments. The construction methods and electrical service installation used to build homes are vastly different than those used to build office buildings, warehouses, and factories. Commercial buildings require additional insulation
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Fine Art Lighting
Fine 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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Showcase Your Cabinet Displays With a Cabinet Lighting Design
If your Houston home has glass or open cabinets, a cabinet lighting design can turn them into beautiful showcases. A masterfully lit cabinet might hold prized collections, vintage and antique items, and other items that are meant for display purposes.
What can cabinet lighting do for your cabinet displays?
The light fixtures in your home serve their own purpose. These general lights are merely meant to offer
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Landscape Lighting for Your Houston Home
Beautifying your home’s curb appeal while making it more secure.
If you want to enhance the beauty of your Houston home while providing it the security and safety you desire, you may want to look into landscape lighting. Landscape lighting is an elegant way to enhance your home’s architectural features while making it more secure during the nighttime hours.
A landscape lighting design increases the curb appeal of
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More Than Just Lighting Design…
Professional Electrical Contractors, Installing Emergency Generators & Whole House Surge Protection.
Illuminations Lighting and Design has worked since 1980 as an award-winning electrical contractor servicing the entire Texas Gulf Coast. Our team of certified electrical technicians brings to the table a combination of standard electrical service disciplines combined with many advanced techniques not
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Fine Art Lighting & Art Lights
What makes ILD the most qualified go-to source for art and light in the city of Houston?
In the 1980s, we originally began as an art lighting firm whose specialty was the superior presentation of fine art. Over time, we expanded into other areas of lighting, including interior home lighting, architectural lighting, landscape lighting, electrical services, and home automation.
This expansion taught us
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Splish Splash…Outdoor Lighting Enhances That!
Summer is here! Enjoy your pool, enhance it with lush landscaping and illuminate it with dramatic landscape lighting.
There is nothing more enjoyable and relaxing than sitting around your pool or outdoor pond on a beautiful evening with friends and family. Having a well designed outdoor living space would not be complete without lush landscaping and magnificent landscape lighting from Illuminations Lighting
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Thunderbolts and Lightning – Surges Can Be Frightening
Protecting Your Home From Lightning and Electrical Surges
The 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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