LED recessed lighting is the newest form of home recessed lighting designs that can be used to generate multiple layers of luminance in a Houston luxury home. Upgrading to LED does represent an investment in equipment cost that the homeowner must be prepared to make. This investment carries many returns with it that makes the upgrade more than worth the front-end cost. New retrofit technology
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State of the Art Kitchen Lighting
State of the art kitchen lighting features multiple layers of light that combine in ways that hold the entire aesthetic of the kitchen together. This requires that our team possess unusual levels of awareness in the areas of kitchen design, cabinet design, interior decorating, and luxury home architecture. Armed with this knowledge, they are able to create some of the most beautiful, and functional,
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Interior Lighting Design
Illuminations Lighting and Design has labored for the last 30+ years throughout Houston and Greater Texas to deliver innovative and technically reliable indoor lighting design. We know the value of investing in lighting, and we understand that functionality is only part of the motivation that compels people to contract an indoor lighting designer to systematically illuminate, and often automate, every room in
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Quality Houston Home Lighting Designs
There are many things being said today about quality home lighting in Houston. In the past we thought of light being bright enough to see by. Now, the increasing demand for energy efficiency, the rise of the custom home market, and the demand for superior decorating have forced us all to redefine the meaning of “quality.”
First of all, we have to think both pragmatically and aesthetic if we are going t
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Formal Living Room Lighting
No matter how innovative and personal custom home architecture becomes, formality will never go out of style. Its rich display of elegance, combined with a tangible sense of conservative self-containment, epitomizes the sensibilities of many who have pursued success as a means to a more sublime and beautiful life, and not as an end unto itself. It is this blend of the sublime and the beautiful, as Edmund
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Lighting Billiard Rooms and Pool Tables
The most important aspect of billiard room lighting is the appropriate illumination of the billiard table. The light on the table must be clear and shadow free. By this we mean that billiard balls, regardless of their positions on the table, must not cast disturbing shadows when they are struck by the light. This requires a wide distribution of light that will keep all surfaces illuminated while the game
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Interactive Media Design
Interactive media design transforms mass media into home-based personalized communications, audio, video, and information systems. Media historically has been divergent and worldwide, creating a leap of human thought differentiating our current time from the previous “industrial era,” that ended only a few decades ago. Interactive media design makes global communications technology private and confines it
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Illuminations Lighting Design Newsletter Archives
NEWSLETTER - a written report, usually issued periodically, prepared by or for a group or institution, as a business firm, charitable organization, or government agency, to present information to employees, contributors, stockholders, or the like, and often to the press and public. Here at Illuminations lighting design our newsletters are focused on residential and commercial lighting trends, issues and
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How to Plan Residential Lighting
Learning how to plan home lighting requires absolutely no technical knowledge and no upfront costs. You do not have to buy “How To” books on lighting or take a night class in lighting. There are resources all around you that are free and readily available that will show you exactly what you need to do and how you need to go about planning lighting or home lighting controls in a new or remodel h
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Home System Integration
Large custom homes are complex structures that feature sophistication in advanced new home wiring and residential high-end lighting design undreamed of in the past. Simple controls are not enough to adequately control home systems simply because the sheer size of the home prohibits convenient access to multiple points of control. By streamlining all home systems into one integrated unity and giving the
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