In our first newsletter of the year, we extolled the virtues of green lighting. But you probably still have questions about the different kinds of sustainable bulb options that are available. Whether you want to replace bulbs in existing light fixtures, chandeliers, sconces or lanterns or start over with ADG’s decorative lighting fixtures the choice is yours as how to begin.
Among the best quick green energy investments a consumer can make is the replacement of traditional light bulbs with an energy efficient bulb. But preferably not Compact Florescent Lights (CFLs). These curly-cue shaped light bulbs give off the same amount of light as a traditional light bulb, and expend dramatically less energy, so replacing old light bulbs with new CFLs can save you money on your electric bill but are filled with toxic chemicals, still produce waste that should be carted off as electronic waste and not in your regular trash bin.
So what should we all do to help spare the environment some of the burden of power production? We have solutions that will last 50,000 to 100,000 hours as compared to CFL that go about 11,000 hours. These bulbs are 5 times that of CFL and 20 to 50 times life of regular incandescent. They also produce little heat, are easy to screw into existing fixtures and look relatively similar to a regular old Edison light bulb and Tesla would be proud. LED light bulbs, (Light Emitting Diodes) are another light source that pulls significantly less power, and produces brightness. LED bulbs about 10 times more energy efficient than CFLS, but they are quite a bit more expensive to purchase upfront. And deferred maintenance and your energy bill will prove that replacing incandescent with LED will brighten your home and save you money. Even the White House Christmas tree now uses LED technology.
A couple other techniques for greening your lighting include the use of Solar lights for outdoor areas, or if you are doing a remodel you may consider including features such as solar power, sky lights or strategically placed windows which can offer enough light during the day can give you a 0-wat lighting scheme on sunny days. ADG can help you make the decision of what kind of green lighting options will work best for your space. Contact us today for a consultation.
Click here LED Presentation compressed.pps (1.30 mb) to see the many ways a traditional fixture should be using LED or energy efficient bulbs. Some of these projects have been designed from the initial inception of sustainable solutions and others are on their way to being replaced
US Department of energy on LED lamping click here
Technical Aspects of how LED works by the State of NY. click here
Green Insurance since you are replacing your home with Green energy alternatives and on the track to low carbon footprint and just being conscientious about the environment.
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Elegant Elements
The boldness of iron can lend elegance to rustic, modern or classic look to individual space. ADG offers customized ironwork that will fit your space exactly. Marc Appleton, Author/ Architect’s book The New Classicists exemplifies details and collaborative from architect and designers to the trades. No matter what type of lighting or decorative accessory you are looking for, from French, Italian, Spanish or English, lighting to fencing, grills for doors or railings, the appropriate designed detail can enhance a space and lend scale and significant architectural appropriateness..
When establishing a room or yard, proper lighting is a significant and an important element, but it’s not just the light coming out of a fixture that is important, the light fixture itself is functional detail and an architectural element that helps to define or accentuate a yard or room’s motif also adding ambience.
Even if you have good natural lighting, a light fixture or decorative iron element can provide a focal point for the space. Complimenting light fixtures to other accessories in a room or yard, like the grillwork on a door, the railing on a staircase, or the fence around your space, adds a level of congruency that will impress your guests and exemplify classic taste.
The benefit of working with companies like ADG on your project rather than buying fixtures and accessories off the floor at a retailer is the hands on approach and knowledge that is brought to each project. Offering personalized pieces such as hand crafted iron lighting and antique inspired reproductions along with well designed and fabricated doors, hand wrought rails and furnishings are a traditional method of defining and complimenting the architect’s and designer’s gestures towards the architecture itself. Architectural Detail Group can even work with your existing pieces in the interest of conservation and are happy to work with you to provide green and sustainable solutions.
Contact ADG at 818-597-9494 for more information or submit a question to info@adgmail.com
When establishing a room or yard, proper lighting is a significant and an important element, but it’s not just the light coming out of a fixture that is important, the light fixture itself is functional detail and an architectural element that helps to define or accentuate a yard or room’s motif also adding ambience.
Even if you have good natural lighting, a light fixture or decorative iron element can provide a focal point for the space. Complimenting light fixtures to other accessories in a room or yard, like the grillwork on a door, the railing on a staircase, or the fence around your space, adds a level of congruency that will impress your guests and exemplify classic taste.
The benefit of working with companies like ADG on your project rather than buying fixtures and accessories off the floor at a retailer is the hands on approach and knowledge that is brought to each project. Offering personalized pieces such as hand crafted iron lighting and antique inspired reproductions along with well designed and fabricated doors, hand wrought rails and furnishings are a traditional method of defining and complimenting the architect’s and designer’s gestures towards the architecture itself. Architectural Detail Group can even work with your existing pieces in the interest of conservation and are happy to work with you to provide green and sustainable solutions.
Contact ADG at 818-597-9494 for more information or submit a question to info@adgmail.com
Thursday, January 24, 2008
See Our Collaborations On the Web!
Part of what makes a design team great is their ability to collaborate on different projects with different designers, architects, homeowners and visionaries to fulfill the needs of their client. At Architectural Detail Group, it is our mission to enhance the built environment’s needs through positive relationships. Over the years, we have been fortunate enough to have our joint efforts featured different places on the web. Check out some of our projects and then let us know how we can help you make your design come to life, from concept to completion.The following four celebrated architects, designers and contractors are all advertisers in the new LUXE magazine.
We have worked with Hablinski + Manion Architects throughout the years to create unique lighting resolutions, which you can see at their website. Italian illuminated project, a classic style Mediterranean in Brentwood and an English Manor in Bel Air.
With ------Gordon Gibson Construction, Gerald Olesker and Joey Gennaro have designed and fabricated lanterns, chandeliers and other lighting details for upper-end residences and spec homes. Currently ADG is working on a project with Gibson Construction partner Bruce Paez in the Oaks in Calabasas.
Recently, we were honored to be featured on http://luxemont.com/, a luxury lifestyle website devoted to letting the world in on the latest in luxury living. See the article at http://www.justluxe.com/fine-living/home-decor/article-228896.php, and then let us know how we can provide luxurious lighting and decorative ironworks for your project. Send us an Email/ click here or shop at adglighting.com
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Know Who You’re Working With
Working on your project can be exciting and intense, especially if unexpected inconveniences arise. Our years of experience in the custom lighting and decorative iron design business have made it clear that having a set of key vendors as resources is an essential. If and when the time comes to need to review pertinent issues with a proficient consultant, you can call upon a needed vendor for additional advice. ADG has been a building industry contact for years and has experience working with multiple designers and developers to make sure that your vision is maintained throughout the process.
Building projects are time consuming and being able to rely on a vendor is important. Using established sources to get your project done ensures that each element is perfect and will seamlessly mesh together. By making sure that your team has a strong support network, you can depend on them to help you, so that all parts of your project go as planned. Not only will a team of experts make sure that all components of your project coordinate with each other, they will be available to you each step along the way.
Rather than asking someone you don’t work with how to solve any problems that arise, make sure that your network of vendors is strong and knows what they are doing. As custom lighting and design experts, we make sure that the customer can always reach us and is able to discuss any concerns they may have about their project.
Building projects are time consuming and being able to rely on a vendor is important. Using established sources to get your project done ensures that each element is perfect and will seamlessly mesh together. By making sure that your team has a strong support network, you can depend on them to help you, so that all parts of your project go as planned. Not only will a team of experts make sure that all components of your project coordinate with each other, they will be available to you each step along the way.
Rather than asking someone you don’t work with how to solve any problems that arise, make sure that your network of vendors is strong and knows what they are doing. As custom lighting and design experts, we make sure that the customer can always reach us and is able to discuss any concerns they may have about their project.
Monday, December 31, 2007
Top 5 Reasons for Homeowners to engage with a qualified lighting/design manufacturer
If you are like most homeowners, then you want your home to reflect your personality but probably need the assistance of a professional to help you lay out decorative lighting. You want every detail to stand out, yet compliment each other. If you’re this homeowner, then look at our Top 5 reasons to engage with a qualified lighting/ design manufacturer who specialize in quality lighting. These are the thoughts of the Team at www.adgLighting.com:
1. With a professional lighting and design manufacturer, review the qualifications of your team so that you interact with a team of educated professionals whose experiences reflect multiple successful projects.
2. You are seeking a team that provides quality, personalized time, product versatility and price guidance.
3. Hiring a team like ADG as your lighting specialist, you are involved with a company whose key members have designed/ manufactured over 800 residential, resort and high profile projects.
4. References are always important and you should know that the top architects and designers have engaged and collaborated with the prospective lighting design and manufacturer.
5. A variety of 150-plus publications have depicted our various lighting and decorative iron projects and can be found at www.adgwebnet.com.
ADG, Architectural Detail Group, has been a significant participant in the completing of many home design projects. You can call us to guide you in the design process or simply log onto our web shop at www.adgLighting.com to purchase beautiful sconces, chandeliers, lanterns or other decorative lighting needs. You can also log onto the website to select any light fixture and, for a small fee, have a full-size photo sent to your construction project.
1. With a professional lighting and design manufacturer, review the qualifications of your team so that you interact with a team of educated professionals whose experiences reflect multiple successful projects.
2. You are seeking a team that provides quality, personalized time, product versatility and price guidance.
3. Hiring a team like ADG as your lighting specialist, you are involved with a company whose key members have designed/ manufactured over 800 residential, resort and high profile projects.
4. References are always important and you should know that the top architects and designers have engaged and collaborated with the prospective lighting design and manufacturer.
5. A variety of 150-plus publications have depicted our various lighting and decorative iron projects and can be found at www.adgwebnet.com.
ADG, Architectural Detail Group, has been a significant participant in the completing of many home design projects. You can call us to guide you in the design process or simply log onto our web shop at www.adgLighting.com to purchase beautiful sconces, chandeliers, lanterns or other decorative lighting needs. You can also log onto the website to select any light fixture and, for a small fee, have a full-size photo sent to your construction project.
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Top 5 Reasons for Designers to Retain a Lighting Firm
If you are a design professional and working on a client’s project, then you most likely have several areas to focus on. And if you want to make your client’s vision come to life, then you should ultimately consider using a qualified lighting/design manufacturer. Here are the Top 5 Reasons here at ADG we feel designers need to retain a qualified lighting/ design manufacturing firm:
1. A good firm will be educating its client and should have a great deal of experience with Architecture and custom lighting, fabrication, installation and incorporation.
Review with the firm multiple successful projects;and be a part of a professional group, i.e. The Institute of Classical Architecture.
2. A good lighting firm will provide you with more than adequate time, product and price guidance.
3. A relationship with a good firm extends beyond your current project and will be available to do future business and to call on for brief questions.
4. A good lighting firm can see the overall concept of your design and can execute your ideas collaborating on the details.
5. A good design firm has the ability to become well versed with the designer and/or architect’s style so that they can compliment the overall aesthetic. Custom, well-designed lighting goes beyond the fixture and is part of the Architecture.
Keep these helpful elements in mind when you are making the decision of which firm or manufacturer you want to hire and that a great custom lighting designer for your next project is as important as good circulation and a well planned design.
1. A good firm will be educating its client and should have a great deal of experience with Architecture and custom lighting, fabrication, installation and incorporation.
Review with the firm multiple successful projects;and be a part of a professional group, i.e. The Institute of Classical Architecture.
2. A good lighting firm will provide you with more than adequate time, product and price guidance.
3. A relationship with a good firm extends beyond your current project and will be available to do future business and to call on for brief questions.
4. A good lighting firm can see the overall concept of your design and can execute your ideas collaborating on the details.
5. A good design firm has the ability to become well versed with the designer and/or architect’s style so that they can compliment the overall aesthetic. Custom, well-designed lighting goes beyond the fixture and is part of the Architecture.
Keep these helpful elements in mind when you are making the decision of which firm or manufacturer you want to hire and that a great custom lighting designer for your next project is as important as good circulation and a well planned design.
Monday, December 17, 2007
Why Go Custom
Quality hand-crafted iron grillwork can be a great accent for any style home, no matter if its contemporary, modern, Spanish-style or even historic. Finding a way to pull it all together can be tricky, so it’s important to find a company that will work with you and your house to ensure your new ironworks are a positive reflection of your personality.
By using a custom design team, you ensure that your lighting needs are met in a unique and stylish way that reflects you and your family’s style rather than a generic offering from a store. An experienced company will give you personalized service, working onsite to ensure your satisfaction. A firm like ADG will work with what you have and meet all your lighting needs, inside and out.
Pulling together a home can be daunting and you may not always like your store-bought options. Or you may prefer to work with antiques, or antique-inspired fixtures. In either case, a design team can help you make choices that work for you, or even create customized lighting that will complete your look.
As we all try to do our part to fight against global climate change, don’t forget to look at sustainable lighting options, like LED lights, rather than traditional bulbs that use excess energy.
In your quest to make your house your home, don’t forget about the importance of lighting and don’t think your options are limited to what you find on the shelf. After years spent designing lighting options, I know there are no limits.
By using a custom design team, you ensure that your lighting needs are met in a unique and stylish way that reflects you and your family’s style rather than a generic offering from a store. An experienced company will give you personalized service, working onsite to ensure your satisfaction. A firm like ADG will work with what you have and meet all your lighting needs, inside and out.
Pulling together a home can be daunting and you may not always like your store-bought options. Or you may prefer to work with antiques, or antique-inspired fixtures. In either case, a design team can help you make choices that work for you, or even create customized lighting that will complete your look.
As we all try to do our part to fight against global climate change, don’t forget to look at sustainable lighting options, like LED lights, rather than traditional bulbs that use excess energy.
In your quest to make your house your home, don’t forget about the importance of lighting and don’t think your options are limited to what you find on the shelf. After years spent designing lighting options, I know there are no limits.
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