Lighting Design

Fine Art Lighting

Fine 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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Lighting from Above

04/30/2019 at Illuminations Lighting, LED Lighting, Lighting Design

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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Fine Art Lighting that really Wows!

03/21/2019 at Fine Art Lighting, Illuminations Lighting, Lighting Design

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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Tree Lighting

03/06/2019 at Landscape Lighting, LED Lighting, Lighting Design

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

02/20/2019 at Illuminations Lighting, LED Lighting, Lighting Design

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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Building Value

01/09/2019 at LED Lighting, Lighting Design, Residential Electrical

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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Home Automation

01/02/2019 at Illuminations Lighting, LED Lighting, Lighting Design, Residential Electrical

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

12/22/2018 at Illuminations Lighting, Landscape Lighting, Lighting Design

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

12/08/2018 at Illuminations Lighting, Lighting Design

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

11/17/2018 at Illuminations Lighting, Lighting Design, Residential Electrical

"…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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