Residential Lighting Design
Your home should look as extraordinary at night as it does during the day.
Independent lighting design for new homes, renovations, and homes that never felt right after dark.
Rio Grande Valley and South Texas
The problem
Lighting is decided last, and lived with every evening.
A copied layout
Downlights spaced evenly, before anyone asked what the light is for.
Bright, not comfortable
Flat architecture, glare where you sit, switches nobody can read.
Then the ceilings close
Moving a fixture stops being a decision and becomes a change order.
Services
Start where your project actually is.
New Construction Lighting Design
On most new homes, the lighting plan is a grid of downlights added to the electrical drawing after every other decision is final. By the time anyone sees what it produces, the ceilings are closed.
Read moreRenovation and Retrofit Lighting Design
A renovation opens some ceilings and not others. The lighting has to work as one composition across both — and it is usually solved by matching whatever is already there.
Read moreExisting Home Lighting Audit
The house is finished and the lighting is wrong — harsh, flat, or you only ever use one lamp. An audit finds out why, and what can change without opening the ceiling.
Read moreLighting Strategy Consultation
A plan or a quote is in front of you, and no independent way to judge it. A consultation gives you a straight answer before you commit.
Read moreLighting Controls and Scene Design
A well-designed room with badly organised controls gets used at one setting — usually everything on. A wall of unlabelled switches, or an app that needs explaining, undoes the design.
Read moreInstallation Review, Aiming, and Commissioning
A lighting plan is not finished when the fixtures are installed. Adjustable fixtures arrive pointing straight down, dimming ranges sit at factory defaults, and scenes are empty.
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What we actually decide
Where the light goes, and how warm it is.
Two of the decisions behind every room. Move them.
Beam angle
Illustrative — not photometric
25° beam · ≈3.5 ft pool at an 8 ft ceiling
Colour temperature
Illustrative — not photometric
2700K · Incandescent — the residential default
We sell no fixtures and earn nothing on the products we specify — so the recommendation can be to keep what you already have. More about the studio, or how we work with builders and designers.
Common questions
What people ask first.
We decide what the light in your home should accomplish, then specify the fixtures, placement, optics, and controls to achieve it. The electrician installs the system; we design what it does.
Before electrical rough-in — earlier if possible. Before ceilings close, everything is adjustable. After, we work with optics, trims, dimming, and aiming. There is useful work at every stage, including in a finished house.
Yes. A new trim, a lamp with a different beam angle, or a better dimmer can transform a room without opening a ceiling. An audit puts those opportunities in order.
Yes — as the lighting specialist alongside builders, architects, designers, electricians, and integrators. We develop the lighting layer and document it clearly enough to build from.
Make lighting part of the design—not an afterthought.
Tell us about the project—the stage it is at, what is already decided, and what is bothering you. We will tell you honestly whether we can help and what that would involve.
Rio Grande Valley and South Texas · kevin@studiotuuri.com