For builders, architects, and designers
Add specialist lighting expertise to your residential projects without adding confusion to the project team.
Lighting is the layer most projects hand to whoever has capacity — the electrician working from a template, or a showroom quoting from a catalogue. It arrives late, gets priced as a line item, and produces a house that photographs worse than it deserves to. We take that layer on and hand back documentation your electrician can build from.
What changes
When the lighting layer has an owner.
Earlier decisions
Lighting questions get answered while they are still drawings — not at rough-in, when every answer costs schedule.
Documentation that builds
A dimensioned layout and a fixture schedule with optics, trims, and control requirements. Not a cloud of symbols to interpret.
Independent specification
No brand relationships and nothing earned on the products, which also makes us a neutral party in a value-engineering conversation.
Fewer substitutions
Every fixture is specified against a performance reason, so an alternate can be judged on whether it does the same job.
Fewer change orders
Most lighting change orders come from decisions made without knowing what the light would do.
A better upgrade conversation
Clients approve upgrades they understand. Explaining what a deeper regress buys them is easier than defending a line item.
How we work together
Most relationships start with one plan review.
The cheapest way to find out whether we are useful to you.
Plan review
A focused review of an existing lighting or electrical plan, with written findings and a prioritised list. The fastest way to use us.
Project-by-project design
We join a single project as the lighting designer, engaged by you or directly by your client, and work to your programme.
Client consultation
We sit in on a selections meeting or run a dedicated session to help your client make lighting decisions.
Builder lighting standards
A documented standard for your homes — fixture families, layout rules, control conventions — so every project starts from a considered baseline.
Model-home packages
A designed lighting package for a model or spec home, where the lighting has to do the selling.
Ongoing partnership
A standing arrangement across multiple projects, with agreed rates and turnaround.
Questions
What project teams ask.
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 — as the lighting specialist alongside builders, architects, designers, electricians, and integrators. We develop the lighting layer and document it clearly enough to build from.
No. No brand relationships, no commissions. The recommendation can be “keep what you have” — and the schedule reflects what each location needs, not what someone needs to sell.
No. Studio Tuuri provides lighting design and consultation. Installation, permitting, and code compliance belong to the licensed professionals on your project — we design the lighting and coordinate with them.
Yes — one of the most common ways to start. Send the plan or fixture list and we will tell you what it will produce, what will not work, and what is worth changing.
Yes. We design the control layer — zones, keypads, dimming behaviour, and the scenes you will actually use. Your electrician or integrator implements and programs it.
Yes, for work that travels well: plan reviews, specification, consultations, control planning. Audits and final aiming require being in the room after dark.
Yes — a known budget makes the design better. We spend it where it will be noticed and economise where it will not.
Whatever you have. Plans, a fixture list, or photographs are useful; a floor plan sketch is enough to start a conversation.
Yes — it is part of the work. Documentation written to be built from, questions answered at rough-in, substitutions reviewed. The goal is less ambiguity for the electrician, not another voice.
Yes, as part of a project — facades, entries, and coordination with landscape lighting. How the house reads from the street is part of the same composition.
The design is not finished at installation. Fixtures arrive aimed at the floor, dimming at factory defaults, scenes empty. Commissioning — aiming after dark, setting limits, building scenes — is the cheapest step to get right and the most expensive to skip.
Send us a plan and we will tell you what we would change.
A plan review is the least expensive way to find out whether a lighting specialist is worth adding to your projects.
Rio Grande Valley and South Texas · kevin@studiotuuri.com