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 Design for your next project
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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Built to Last
For aesthetics or practical use
We’re into the second century since Thomas Edison first commercialized the electric incandescent light bulb. The tide of progress has not halted it has increased—and modern lighting is not only up to 90% more efficient, but it's thousands of times more durable.
Progress
Edison was pleased when he could make a single light bulb operate for an entire day without failing. We now
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Art is art is art is art…
In all its forms, art enhances our lives
There’s a very old expression which goes Ars est celare artem, or in English, “True Art conceals the means by which it is achieved.” We’ve always taken that to heart, right from the very beginning.
Our company began with a chance meeting of an electrical engineer and a fantastic art lighting director from the theater. They felt that they needed to combine their talents,
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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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Renovating and Updating
“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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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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Residential or Commercial Spaces
Everything deserves to be beautiful
Illuminations Lighting Design has been creating fabulous lighting for about four decades, so it stands to reason that we’ve learned a thing or two. Our company was founded by a Master Theater Lighting Expert and an Electrical Engineer, whose chance meeting over lunch started this whole business.
Sharing and Caring
Over the years our customers have made it a point to share the
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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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