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.