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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Lighting Design
Home Automation
The Wave of the Future
For those of us that grew up in the 50s-80s, there has been a tremendous amount of change. Some of us saw TV for the first time, albeit in black & white, replacing radio, or actual musical instruments, as standard home entertainment. Back then at least one person in every home could play the piano.Some of us remember TV being there all the time but saw it become colored. Not long
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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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Short and Sweet
And faster than a Tweet!We all seem to be spending more and more time online nowadays. It might be Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, or Twitter that attracts us. For many people it consumes fully half of their day! It’s so much different than growing up in the 60s, 70s, and 80s!Sometimes the Old Guard reads a modern text message saying “U & ur bf going on a d8? GR8. CU 2morrow”. After puzzling over it for a
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It’s Great to be Loved
"…but you’re making us blush!
Our customers are folks just like you except, as they say, they were lucky enough to discover Illuminations Lighting Design to handle all their electrical contracting and design work. Some found themselves in the hands of folks that abandoned them halfway through a contract; that didn’t finish the work they promised. Others were lucky and heard about us through friends. They came to
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We love to hear from you!
Drop us a quick note!
It only takes a moment—unless you want to tell us a fleshed-out story—to share your experience with our other customers. Take it from Judith Raines, who summed it all up with:"Chris—just turned the lights on for the first time. They look fantastic. Thanks to you and your gang."Or this quick note from Suzie Johnson who said:"Thanks, Chris, for taking care of us on such
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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:
"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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Chandeliers
They have their ups and downs…
The word chandelier comes from Old French and means “candle-holder.” Long before electricity, a chandelier was one of the brightest sources of illumination possible, so naturally, we folks at Illuminations Lighting Design find them absolutely fascinating.Designs have varied over the years but early ones were simply circular objects like a wagon wheel, or ship’s wheel with candles
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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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