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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Fine Art Lighting
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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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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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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The Secret to Art Lighting
From Hot to Cool
Hot Lights
Back in the olden days art lighting was accomplished with incandescent bulbs because all other bulbs were inadequate for the task. Fluorescent lights, although long lasting, had a very limited spectrum, and they tended to dim and change color over their lifetime. Plasma discharge bulbs, such as neon, were monochromatic, so also completely useless.
So we worked with incandescent
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What our customers are saying:
Neatness Counts!
Sometimes our family members can drive us crazy. Maybe the kids ran into the house, directly from the garden, and tracked globs of mud all over the kitchen. Maybe our spouse who just fixed our car, but wiped poorly-washed hands on our new towels. We are quick to reassure our clumsy guest who spilled a glass of red wine because they are, after all, our friend.
We teach our children to be
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What Our Customers are Saying:
"A testament to unique solutions
Our customers love us…and believe us, the feeling is mutual! Without you we wouldn’t have stayed in business for nearly 40 years… We couldn’t be more delighted than when our clients sing our praises!
John Malone very kindly dropped us a note, and said:
"I just got home and saw what y’all did. It wasn’t what I expected however! I didn’t know that you could do what you did,
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Direct, Phantom, or Remote?
What is the best way to light your art?
Elongated filament tube-bulbs, often greater than 6” in length, used to be the “go to” choice for lighting paintings, or other relatively flat objects (like plaster of stone friezes). With paintings there would often be a fixture with one or two bulbs directly overhead. This was called Direct Lighting, which would illuminate a rather central splotch, often leaving the top
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Art Lighting, Repairs, and Maintenance
It’s a complex skillset
Some folks might think that "art lighting" is easy— clamp an elongated tube-style incandescent fixture to the top of a picture frame, and you're done, right? Sadly, no; that went out of fashion years ago, right along with button-up shoes.
The technology has advanced from the power-hungry, short-lived incandescents invented in the 1890s, to durable sources that use 1/10th the power, and
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Neatness Counts
No mess… and we vacuum, too!
Back in your school days, on top of the requirements for a test or quiz, your teachers would often add “…and Neatness Counts”. At the time we might have regarded that as unfair since knowing the answers might have seemed hard enough. The teachers, however, were preparing us for Real Life, because neatness really does count.
Just like Home
It’s true that we know all our fixtures
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