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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Art is art is art is art…
In all its forms, art enhances our lives
There’s a very old expression which goes Ars est celare artem, or in English, “True Art conceals the means by which it is achieved.” We’ve always taken that to heart, right from the very beginning.
Our company began with a chance meeting of an electrical engineer and a fantastic art lighting director from the theater. They felt that they needed to combine their talents,
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Building Value
There’s Gold in them thar Walls!
Nearly everybody is familiar with the expression “Do it for the kids!” It’s an invitation to invest in the future of your descendants. And so we put money in education funds, or buy them a laptop for school (or a tablet, or whatever device will give them some educational advantage).
Maybe we’ll even capitulate and get them a new game console, or the latest $1,000 phone, so
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Home Automation
The Wave of the Future
For those of us that grew up in the 50s-80s, there has been a tremendous amount of change. Some of us saw TV for the first time, albeit in black & white, replacing radio, or actual musical instruments, as standard home entertainment. Back then at least one person in every home could play the piano.
Some of us remember TV being there all the time but saw it become colored. Not long
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The Staccato Roar of Approval
Keeping it Snappy & Short
Here we are again! We’ve got even more customers flooding our e-mail box with compliments, in a machine-gun like style! Some folks like to share pages of material, and we love to read it, but for a quick confidence boost and a bit of pleasure, it’s always a joy to read a quick, snappy comment.
For example, Lenior Josey from Houston said:
As part of my morning ritual, one of the
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Renovating and Updating
“Economical” builders cause more problems than they solve!
Recently we received this delightful note from a “Happy Houston Customer” who had this story to tell:
In April I did renovations on a condo before moving into the unit in May. One of the major problems with the condo was the lighting. It was truly awful — glaring halogen track lighting in the kitchen and single overhead light sources in all of the other
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