When we look at the design of our homes, we often focus on the home’s floor plan and the overall style of our homes. But, an often overlooked part of our home’s features is its interior lighting design. In fact, not only is interior lighting overlooked - homeowners often underestimate the value of well-thought-out lighting design. While lighting your home makes a difference in its functionality and the aesthetics of
Read more
Residential Electrical
Upgrade Your Houston Home With an LED Lighting Solution
Whether you live in Houston or any of the surrounding towns and counties, you may want to consider upgrading your home or office with an LED lighting solution. There are many reasons to consider an LED upgrade. You might simply need an upgrade altogether, particularly if you have old wiring or insufficient lighting in your home or business. In that case, if you have to upgrade, you might as well upgrade
Read more
Do I Need an Electrical Contractor to Rewire My Home?
Do I Need an Electrical Contractor to Rewire My Houston Home?
If you suspect that your Houston home has electrical problems, you may need to seek the help of an experienced and knowledgeable electrical contractor. Older homes have beauty, personality, and character. But, homebuyers often forget when they’re purchasing an aging home that there’s more than aesthetics to consider. Renovating
Read more
Residential Electrical Contractors, Different Than Commercial
Residential Electrical Contractors
The residential electrical contractor is very different from a commercial electrician. This is due to the vast differences between the two working environments. The construction methods and electrical service installation used to build homes are vastly different than those used to build office buildings, warehouses, and factories. Commercial buildings require additional insulation
Read more
More Than Just Lighting Design…
Professional Electrical Contractors, Installing Emergency Generators & Whole House Surge Protection. Illuminations Lighting and Design has worked since 1980 as an award-winning electrical contractor servicing the entire Texas Gulf Coast. Our team of certified electrical technicians brings to the table a combination of standard electrical service disciplines combined with many advanced techniques not
Read more
Thunderbolts and Lightning – Surges Can Be Frightening
Protecting Your Home From Lightning and Electrical SurgesThe Houston area is more than familiar with nature’s light show as it flashes across the sky. The Space City’s recent storms more than prove how important surge protection in your home can be.According to the Insurance Information Institute, over $800 million in lightning claims was paid out to property owners in 2016. Many claims due to lightning are
Read more
Electrical Services
Residential Electrical Services
Truly effective Texas electrical service requires much more than simple wiring and electricity. Today’s houses and buildings are so much more sophisticated than they were in the past; featuring more elaborate floor plans, more space consolidation, automated wiring and more custom interior architecture.When you find yourself facing a basic or minor electrical problem, more than
Read more
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
Read more
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
Read more
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
Read more
Follow Us: