Interior Designers
Interior designers often enter a home armed with a veritable arsenal of creativity and subcontracted resources. In many cases, the secondary services a decorator brings in under his or her invoice adds a certain specialized expertise to robust décor. Professional lighting equipment and lighting design services are crucial to this mix. With the right levels of light, both glare and shadow are dispelled, and the texture and color of artwork springs to light.
Phantom Lighting Representatives, located throughout North America, Central America, and South America, are available to help the interior designer utilize some of the world’s most unique and aesthetically superb lighting equipment on the market.
If you are currently working with an interior decorator or interior design firm, we recommend you point them in our direction if they encounter any of the following scenarios relative to fine art and display lighting systems. While a great many interior designers are already working with Phantom Lighting products, many are still discovering us for the first time.
Your interior designer will most likely recommend new artwork as part of his or her overall plan for creating a new look within your home.
Private art collections can transform an interior into a realm of sophistication with very little physical change to the room. The trick is to find equipment from a lighting fixture manufacturer that will maximize the impact of your new collection without damaging the artwork itself or interfering with general room lighting. Any interior designer will tell you that the two biggest aesthetic obstacles to overcome when lighting art are shadows and glare. Any curator or experienced collector will also add that the greatest technological threat to art lighting is ultraviolet radiation and infrared heat—both of which can literally destroy priceless works of creativity and many hours of hard work on the part of your designers.
Retail grade art lights are never recommended because of this. Instead, specialized equipment is needed to maximize the presentation of your pieces and prolong the life of the pieces themselves. Phantom Contour Projectors offer your interior design specialist(s) a sophisticated, low profile light source that will both protect and magnify the handwork of its specialists. Consisting of a low profile fixture that hugs the ceiling unobtrusively out of the viewer’s line of site, the Contour picture lights directs a focused beam of light from a halogen lamp whose luminance has been filtered and stripped of UV an IR radiation. This light remains hidden from view until it strikes the object to which it is directed, causing it to glow with an aura of soft, ambient light.
You interior designer can install one or more Contour Projector models (we have six different lines to choose from) to illuminate oils, acrylics, lithographs, prints, professional photography, and 3-dimensional artwork and statuary.
Your interior designer may also install one or more displays in your home.
These display cases can contain anything from antiques to curious to collectibles, and many homes feature highly ornate pieces of furniture in their own right, regardless of contents. Puck lights and standard linear strip lights often do not work well in these cases because they are too difficult to conceal. They are also hard to control, and will often unevenly distribute illumination, creative unattractive combinations of light and shadows in the process.
If your interior designer is facing such a challenge, he or she can contact our Houston headquarters and speak with one of our linear display lighting experts about custom lighting strips.
Phantom LED strip lights are made with a patented glare shielding that prevents excessive spill light into surrounding shelving and cabinets. Festoon lamps that house incandescent, xenon, or led lamps create an ambient glow within displays that enshrouds contents in a radiant luminance. Wine bottles in racks can be silhouetted from behind with our 2800K Festoon lamps that mimic the lighting qualities of white incandescent. Under cabinet lighting can be installed whose luminance matches the color scheme of the kitchen, and Phantom cove lights can be bent to fit any radius or serpentine surface. In private libraries, the shelving within the book cases looks like is producing the light, when in reality it is coming from hidden Phantom strips Because a Phantom linear low voltage lighting strip is custom fitted to a specific set of dimensions in a shelf, case, valance, or cove, many areas in your home where your interior designer will be working can be showcased magnificently with our linear strips. Their inherently smaller design, combined with our custom manufacturing process and LED lamps, make Phantom display, cabinet, and cove lighting strips virtually undetectable to the naked eye.
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interior designers?
Hi, I reside in the Philadelphia area, and I ‘m seeking a career change to become an Interior Decorator. I’m currently in school, but I’m seeking employment or mentoring in this field so that I can have the professional experience.I do have decorating experience from jobs I have done for friends and relatives. My desire is to have my own business. How do I make this transition.
Are you in school training as a designer? A great place to start if you don’t have an educational background are furniture stores. They offer some training, at least most of them do. It is good to know how to space plan.
If you are serious about making a career out of this, get some educational courses to back up your flair with knowledge. Some interior designers will take on students in mentor programs.
You mentioned that you are in school. If you are in school studing interior design, then I highly recommend that you seek out the local student chapter of ASID. Attend the professional meetings, if there are not student meetings for you to attend. Most ASID Chapters are just starting their fiscal year and will be having many learning opportunities for the professionals. Students are many times invited to attend these programs at reduced rates or for free sometimes.
Go to http://www.asid.org and look around for information that might help you out.
Before making the transition make sure you work for at least one interior designer before starting your own practice. Learn the basics of business practices from a seasoned professional. If you are just trying to build clients, talk to realtors, contractors, go to model homes and ask if they need help with showing clients home options, or offer to do a lecture about design at your local church or library. Some garden groups also have lecturers. One more good way of getting clients is Yellow Pages.
Good Luck. I have been a designer for 20 years and I really love what I do. I can’t imagine doing anything I would love as much. My main clientel are private residences, but it takes a while to build a business.
Interior Designers?
Interior Designers: Can you critique my project?
I am designing a condominium for two young 20 year old women who are “stylish/sleek” and like to entertain. This is for a scholarship projects.
I would love if you could look at my project and critique it. The link is: bleueinteriors.blogspot.com
It is below the post “Contemporary Interiors”; its stops once you get to the post “Polish Things of Mine”
I like everything up until the master bedroom. I was very impressed until I realized the after was actually the before. Meaning I liked the room more the way it was before. the red and white is extremely elegant and looks wonderful. The new color of teh wall is nice though. It sort of depends on your age now… If you’re older than 25, the red and white is more for you. If you’re younger, the after is more for you. The curtains are also a nice touch, if you stick with red and white, i’m sure you could find something to match that color scheme but remember not to get anything too clashy, no curtains with patterns that are huge and overdone! something simple, just wiht a hint of red maybe.
The master bath is great, the other one is not. It’s dull. The sink and everything else in it is of great taste, but you shoudl add something to the walls, something blue maybe. The furniture seems so out of place with such dull walls, it could look so much better.
The other bedroom is amazing. I love what you changed it into, it made the biggest difference overall.
the family however… very plain. it looks like the room isn’t done yet. there’s a lot missing.the color of the walls does not fit with white and light brown wood (floor). you could do so much with the table. it looks very empty. add some coffee tables on the sides of the couches, make it look personal and full. some picture frames. make sure they don’t clash with each other though. add a simple carpet maybe, nothing too big. just under the table. nothing colorful and tacky, just something beige-ish with a pattern.
Kitchen is also great. dining furniture is nice, there’s not much to with that. although, the pictures on teh wall clash with the beige, white, and the floor. doesn’t make too much of a nice blend. you might want to change their frames to the same brown as wood on the back of the couch or shelf i can’t tell what it is (in the dining picture).
The sitting room is lovely; very elegant. but if you would like to add some color somewhere, this is where you can. The pillows could work in another color, maybe a light kind of relaxing green. light yellow even.
Overall, impressive =)
Interior designers…?
who are some famous interior designers, and what are thier pieces of work?Like what did they create.
PS-who designed the Nova Collection, who is the deigner?
i dont know about famous but this man has his own show, brands, etc..
he’s pretty alright; like our modern day famous designer
check out this sight: http://www.flexsteel.com/christopherlowell/
…and im not sure if this is it but this is what i found on the nova collection: http://forums.streetfire.net/showthread.php?t=9303