What is the best way to light your art?
Elongated filament tube-bulbs, often greater than 6” in length, used to be the “go to” choice for lighting paintings, or other relatively flat objects (like plaster of stone friezes). With paintings there would often be a fixture with one or two bulbs directly overhead. This was called Direct Lighting, which would illuminate a rather central splotch, often leaving the top cor
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Residential Electrical Services
Something Old; Something New
We customize it, just for you!
More than just lighting, Illuminations Lighting Design is chock full of electrical engineers and electricians that can manage any electrical task you can describe! Yes, we’ve talked a lot lately about our incomparable skill which keeps us travelling around the country to light the nation’s finest art collections.
You’ll find our work from L.A. to New Yo
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LED Landscape Lighting Services
Turning Nature into Art
We think of vast, sprawling lawns to be part of our domestic landscape, and it is very traditional to think that way. We also think of feral trees, or carefully trimmed and trained trees and bushes (topiary) as part of that scheme.
Sometimes we forget that everything we create on our property falls into the category of landscaping, from rock fences, to reflecting pools; from raised-bed
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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 we’
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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 a
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Power Conditioning
What you need to know
Household voltages can vary widely depending on many conditions. One of the chief contributors to that variability is aged powerlines, ancient transformers, and what exactly stands between you and the power station. At Illuminations Lighting Design we are very familiar with the infrastructure of Texas.
In some locations, you could share a power source with a nearby factory district (even i
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Residential Lighting Maintenance
The porchlight has gone again!
What is more annoying than having a beautiful, oversized, chain-suspended, antique carriage light on your double-height front porch suddenly burn out? Good grief! It is 15 feet in the air… You don’t even own a ladder that big. Worse yet, you’re having a party this coming weekend and everyone is going to notice…
Well, there are worse things… Half the lights in the reflecting pool
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Landscape Lighting Consultants and Designers
Making it your own!
The Story of a New Home
Who doesn’t love finding the perfect home? We’ll spend weeks or months going from place to place, looking for something that fits our image of perfection.
Finally, you find precisely the right number of bedrooms, a
beautiful spacious kitchen, a fully finished basement, complete with home theater and luxurious seating, and a perfect bar for entertaining close frie
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Residential Electrical Service
Be safe…not sorry!
It is almost stunning to think that a little over 100 years ago electricity was still rare. Only wealthy people had electricity in their homes. By the time we got around to building the Empire State Building in 1930 (the Great Depression was still going strong), most commercial buildings had acquired electricity, and coal-gas lighting was being eliminated from street light fixtures.
When ele
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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 w
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