8 LED Lighting Systems to Transform Your Interior

Remodeling with Light

San Antonio electrician All Star Electric has installed many LED lighting systems in the region over 30 years. These systems offer several major benefits: (a) Visual appeal; (b) Flexibility; and (c) True colors.

LEDs are most often dimmable, which enables you to set the mood. To be sure, LED lighting systems are usually more expensive than regular bulb systems. Yet, the cost difference disappears within a couple years of use (reduced utility bills, longer lifetime).

Lighting is not just about seeing where you’re going without stubbing your toe. It is about setting the mood and creating an atmosphere. And about showing your knack for interior design.

Let’s dive into the world of indoor LED lighting systems. See how you can turn a humble abode into a true palace of light.

LED Lighting Systems

Tape and Channel lighting

Manufacturer Kichler Lighting is the “little black dress” of lighting: simple, elegant, in style. Their LED tape lighting can turn a room into a beautifully simple masterpiece. Picture your living room: the soft glow of hidden LED lights casts dramatic shadows and reveals your stylish furniture. What about your kitchen? Under-cabinet lighting turns your countertops into a stage for a cooking show. With Kichler, you won’t just adjust the lighting, but put together a personal light show.

As expected, this manufacturer also offers LED channel lighting. Turn your staircase into a runway, each step bathed in a soft glow. Use channel lighting to highlight an architectural feature, and change a home into a design studio or art gallery.

Hidden LED Strips

Amazon is not the place where professional electricians like All Star Electric would usually go to source electrical fixtures. Nonetheless, the site carries a smorgasbord of LED strip options. You can find motion sensor lights which act like a personal butler. They turn on when you enter a room, and turn off when you leave. Your walk-in closet can light up as you enter it, like a movie star in a dressing room. Say goodbye to dark hallways. Make a well-lit path along your split floor plan, to the guest and child bedrooms, your bathroom, and your kitchen. All Star Electric sources the same fixtures from manufacturers. 

Flush mount ceiling lighting

Flush mount lighting is the right solution when adding can lights in a ceiling is impossible or too expensive. In the past, flush mount fixtures had to house a couple of low-intensity light bulbs (25-40 watts). That would make them bulky. You have to trade bulkiness for light intensity. Bulbs with low wattage don’t give out much light. More bulbs per fixture means a bulkier ceiling light.

The bulk problem is gone with LEDs: because LEDs are small and don’t emit much heat, flush mount ceiling lights are almost flat. The website of SuperBrightLEDs.com offers a lot of ideas for these types of ceiling lights.

Luxury Tunable LED Lighting

Lutron offers a choice of luxury lighting solutions. Their tunable lighting system lets you sync your lights with the sun to bring in the outdoors. They have solutions to make your sunroom changing with the day, from the soft blush of sunrise to the golden glow of sunset. Same for your home office, where light quality makes a difference in how efficiently you work.

LED Track Lighting

SLV offers a variety of LED lighting systems, notably light bars and track systems. Track lighting is an excellent solution to reveal the beauty of an artwork. You could build a gallery wall in your living room with LED track lights. They are also very practical to draw attention to a specific feature of a room. In a kitchen for instance, low-voltage track lights can highlight your La Cornue stove and each chair alongside the island. 

LED Chandeliers and Sconces

Are you into modern style? Check out the chandeliers offered by Kitchler on their website: the indoor options are so chic! Modern LED chandeliers offer design options with which traditional ceiling chandeliers simply can’t compete. Because LED lights are small and don’t give out much heat, manufacturers don’t have to “design around a bulb”. Rather, their designers create a shape, and their engineers integrate LEDs inside. Sconces, down lights, and flush mount lights can create a variety of moods in any area of a home. All Star Electric can work with any type of feature to create a unique light signature in your home.

Hardscape Lighting

“Hardscape lighting” is using lighting fixtures to illuminate the architectural fixtures of your outdoor living space. These are steps, railing and posts, sitting and retaining walls. As you can see, this is different from “landscape lighting”: illuminating the natural features of your landscape. With LED lighting systems, landscape designers and electricians can design any type of fancy “zone lighting”. We can accent features of your patio or yard. TCPI offers many examples of hardscape lighting options on their website. 

LED Pendants

Pendant lights have become a staple of modern kitchen islands and dining rooms. As far as we can tell, they were first used in retail stores and bars to highlight specific areas from high ceilings. With LED technology, manufacturers can create pendant lights in any type of shape and design. This adds a great degree of flexibility to the process of styling a room. The website of Lightology is a great source of ideas.

Designing Residential LED Lighting Systems

Operating as professional electricians in San Antonio and its region for almost 30 years, All Star Electric has installed hundreds of residential lighting systems. We can do anything, from the simplest lighting to the most sophisticated one. With the flexibility offered by LED lighting systems, you can easily become “interior designers with a flair”. We help give life to your vision with the technical knowledge needed to install the lighting system you created on paper. 

Call us at (210) 391-0274 to make an appointment with one of our pros. We will listen to your ideas, and review the possibilities. We offer professional advice, and give you a quote to make your LED lighting system a reality.

Additional resources

SuperBrightLEDs.com
SLV.com – Track lights
Kichler.com – Indoor lighting systems
TCPI.com – Hardscape lighting
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