Do you ever look out your windows at night and you see...yourself? When the inside of your house is lit and the outside is dark, your windows become like mirrors. Many people will spend much time, effort, and money to construct their yards and their landscaping, but then lose the views and the functionality of the space as soon as the sun goes down. This scenario is all too often the case for most homeowners, but it
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Landscape Lighting
Brighten Your Houston Home’s Nights With Landscape Lighting
Gone are the days when lighting your landscape merely involved adding a couple of lamp posts or older solar lights in your yard. Today’s landscape lighting solutions have endless options that will enhance the beauty of your Houston home’s architectural exteriors. But, there are multiple reasons you should consider investing in a landscape lighting design. Lighting your landscape could be one of the best
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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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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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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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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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What our customers are saying:
Why We Love our Customers:As Fresh as All Outdoors
Recently, as we were going through the mail, we were reminded of a delightful landscaping lighting project we designed and built for one of our clients. It was a great redesign, eliminating old power-hungry bulbs that are leftovers from 1890, two centuries ago, from when they were invented.Old Tom Edison may have commercialized the incandescent light bulb
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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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LED Landscape Lighting Services
Turning Nature into Art
We think of vast, sprawling lawns to be part of our domestic landscape, and it is very traditional to think that way. We also think of feral trees, or carefully trimmed and trained trees and bushes (topiary) as part of that scheme.Sometimes we forget that everything we create on our property falls into the category of landscaping, from rock fences, to reflecting pools; from raised-bed
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