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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LED Lighting
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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Lighting from Above
Ceiling lights are most effective when they produce multiple layers of light that provide a sense of sourcelessness to both task and decorative lighting types. Ideally, ceiling lighting should minimize the physical appearance of fixtures and create an even distribution of general lighting that maintains at all times appropriate levels of light necessary in whatever environment they are located. With very few
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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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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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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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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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