“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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LED Lighting
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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`Tis the Season for Re-lighting
Getting the right light for the job
A lot of designers use whatever they have on-hand to get the job done. If they have a lot of one type of item that doesn’t seem to be selling, you can bet they’re going to try to convince you that it is exactly what you need. The truth is that it is exactly what they need—to get their money back for something they over-invested in!
At Illuminations Lighting Design we say it
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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:
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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Chandelier Lifts
Almost Anything is Possible
The word genius is far too overused for us to consider it here. Our installers are engineers who are stunningly creative, inventive, intelligent, possess a truly incredible amount of experience, and can solve virtually any problem.
These folks are so skilled that it is not too far removed from having modern day versions of Leonardo da Vinci working in your home… All right, perhaps
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Cabinet Lighting
Updating, Repairs, and Maintenance
There is a lot to be said for the brave artist who first puts a brush to canvas. Defiling that pristine blank area with any color seems like hubris of the highest order.
Once s/he has made that incursion, however, it's too late to turn back, so continuing is the only choice. Making that first mark doesn’t merely give permission, but instead requires that one proves that there
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Led Lighting Upgrades and Conversions
Once upon a time, there were dozens of scientists around the world, all seeking to make an electrically sourced form of illumination. Some of the earliest were arc lights, of the sort that produce those powerful beams you see sweeping across the sky to attract attention to a car dealership having a sale.
A couple of decades ago they were used to announce the premiere of a new movie so that people could find the
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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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