Phantom Lighting System

Why have I only now heard about under cabinet led lighting?
Because for a very long time these fixtures had a hard time creating white light that could truly function as a replacement for incandescent sources. If you looked at a countertop lit by led under the cabinet light fixtures, you could almost immediately tell what they were. Many custom home builders and interior designers avoided using them for this reason/ LED was seen new technology with great potential, but not quite ready to take the market. That is, until now.

Are these new undercabinet led lights just as good as xenon?
For all intents and purposes, yes. You won’t be able to tell the difference unless you are a trained lighting professional who works with both types of lighting every day. This is because 12 volt under cabinet LED bulbs can now be manufactured that operate at 2800K color temperature—a very white light akin to sunlight. The more white a light is in this sense, the “warmer” its color temperature is said to be. With a warm color temperature lighting source, you can see the greatest level of color and detail in surfaces such as granite and marble.

Why are Phantom undercabinet let lighting fixtures the best choice for builders to use in custom cabinets?
Aside from the custom nature of the strips themselves, Phantom‘s 2800K festoon lamps combines the newest, warmest color temperature available with previous engineering that differentiated our festoon lamps from all competing equivalents. LED bulbs typically emit lower levels of light than incandescent sources. To compensate for this, Phantom developed a lamping techniques that places three bulbs together in a festoon lamp, thus generating a higher lumens output. Now, with this latest evolution in color temperature, you have both the brightness and the “whiteness” that xenon and incandescent have been famous for. For the first time in ever, energy saving led is now poised to eventually replace all other sources of kitchen cabinet lighting.

What are the other benefits of Phantom’s under cabinet festoon lights?
Well, for one thing you don’t have to order new strips to get new lights if you already have Phantom linear strips in place. The 2800K festoon lamps can be retrofitted to both our vertical and horizontal mounting fixtures. They also work on a number of luxury lighting linear strips that use the festoon lamp design.

With incandescent bulbs being eliminated out by 2010 in places like California, developing LED technology to this new level is just in time for today’s custom home builder to offer greater energy savings and superb aesthetic in a problematic housing market. Fully dimmable and ultra-concealable, these linear cabinet lights will add dimension and accent to any home kitchen. Call Phantom now to learn more about 2800K under cabinet led lighting strips and their many applications for builders, architects, designers, and homeowners alike.

Our home lighting manufacturing facility is located in Houston, Texas. Feel free to contact us toll free at 800-863-1184 for assistance on strip lighting or fine art lighting projector equipment. A network of nationwide distributorships and sales representatives fans out throughout all 50 states into cities like Scottsdale, Arizona, Seattle, Washington (SEA), Los Angeles, CA, (LAX) Boston, Massachusetts (BOS), Princeton, NJ (EWR), Philadelphia, PA, Dallas, Texas (DWF), Pasadena, California, Chicago, IL (ORD), Baltimore, MD (BWI), and Minneapolis, MN (MSP). We also service clients internationally, with lighting manufacturer sales representatives working out of Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America.

Phantom Lighting’s designer showroom offers a unique and innovative virtual lighting supply source for decorators, home builders, architects, electricians, and carpenters. The diversity of elegance found in our lighting design showroom is intended to serve as an example of how applicable our residential and commercial luxury lighting fixtures to a wide range of custom lighting environments. When a designers visits our online lighting supply showroom, they are seeing not just products, but tangible examples of how specific products have been customized to the exact specifications of high-end projects that standard art lighting and linear lighting fixtures could not have adequately been communicated with technical catalog.

Consider this fact: every project you see showcased here began as a custom lighting design project just like the one you are currently working on.

Each professional we helped in the pat simply gave us the scope of his or her project, supplied us with appropriate dimensions, schematics, or photographs, and then let our consultants and lighting agents take it from there. Our unique custom specification and lighting supply process was then able to meet the needs of the professional needs on a very personal level and provide him or her with a luminaire made specifically for the project at hand.

You may notice quite a few cabinet lighting, display lighting, and antique furniture lighting projects showcased on our lighting design gallery.

Every one of these lit by customizing one or more of our six linear strip models into an in-cabinet, undercabinet, bookshelf, or display cabinet lighting fixture. Although based on hidden linear lighting technology, these fixtures go far beyond the capabilities typical linear strips you buy from online stores or find in retail showrooms. They are custom manufactured as ultra-thin vertical and horizontal pieces that fit so exactly match the cabinets and shelves they illuminate that you cannot even see that they are there. If you are a home builder, you can count on these luminaires to fit even the most original and eclectic of kitchen cabinets. The same principal applies to cove lighting as well. Our lighting supply showroom exhibits a number of projects where the CM series linear lighting fixtures have been bent to fit the exact curvature of the cove or vaulted ceiling they illuminate.

Our lighting design showroom has a great deal of projects for the art consultant to study as well.

If your profession is locating and hanging artwork for your clients, one of your top priorities is going to be finding art lights that will effectively illuminate your designs. Consider the benefits offered by the Phantom Contour Projector’s “lighted from within effect.” This picture lighting effect is created by a powerful halogen bulb whose light is passed through a sophisticated, adjustable series of filters that both shape the light and render it free of all ultraviolet and infrared light. Since the recessed projector light is “contoured” to match the vertical and horizontal dimensions of the painting or sculpture it illuminates, you gain a remarkable precision in lighting control and luminance intensity when lighting your clients’ art. Our lighting design showroom offers many examples of how this proprietary effect has earned Phantom Lighting world recognition for bringing museum quality lighting to private residential and commercial art collections.

Take your time as study these projects and let your own creativity begin to speak to you.

Although your current project will no doubt be unique, there is a Muse waiting to inspire you today as you browse through our lighting design showroom, and a manufacturer’s representative agent in your area waiting to help you put your next project in a whole new light.

All of our display lights and artwork lighting projectors are made in Houston, Texas. A network of nationwide distributorships and lighting supply representatives then distributes them throughout all 50 states in places like Lansing, MI (LAN), Hagerstown, MD (HGR), Sidney, MT (SDY), Islip, NY (ISP), Elmira/Corning, NY (ELM), Minot, ND (MOT), Marion, IL (MWA), Kaunakakai, HI (MKK), Agana, GU (GUM), Valdosta, GA (VLD). We also service clients internationally, with lighting manufacturer representatives working out of Canada, Mexico, Central America and South America.

We invite you to call a Phantom Agent toll free 800-863-1184 to obtain more information on all of these options.

You can also request literature on our phantom website, visit our phantom mobile website, or read through the many informative summaries and FAQs located on our lighting blog. All of these resources contain a wealth of information about our custom; low-voltage lighting products that are the dream come true of art lighting designers and cabinet lighting builders on two major continents.

Why is Phantom the interior decorators best source of specialty art lighting product supply?
Because we look at ourselves as an extension of your creativity, not a vendor of parts that you have to force fit on top of your vision. We custom manufacture lighting for all of our display, shelf, furniture, and decorative strip lights to the exact specifications of your interior design strategies. You can call us directly at our factory and speak to a artwork lighting design expert who will give you a free consultation over the phone on how to properly illuminate art. During this consultation we will learn exactly what you intend to do for your client, and then locate an agent in our lighting supply network who can best assist your specific application.

Why not simply go to a lighting supply store when I need lights for my clients?
If you go to a lighting supply depot, you will no doubt find countless fixtures that are exquisitely designed and perform exceptionally. The problem you will run into, however, is finding the right accent lighting fixture out of all these choices that will provide a low profile fit for a decorative cabinet, book case, valance, display, or cove you intend to light. Even if you come close, there will still be technical challenges associated with installing it, as many of these lights have transformers that are difficult, if not impossible to conceal.

With Phantom Lighting, however, you can simply send us some photographs and detailed dimensions of what you want us to light and we will supply you with hidden linear lighting strips that will be invisible to the client and operate on low-voltage transformers that remain unseen. This results in a fully dimmable, energy efficient luxury luminance for your design creations that looks great in your client’s home—while saving them money all the while!

Do you supply picture lights or over the frame lights for paintings?
We actually provide you with something much better—your choice of six model designs for our Phantom Contour Projector. These projectors are much smaller and more sheik in design build than larger, bulkier equivalents. They have the very best filtration and lens adjustment mechanisms on the market, making it possible to strip the light of all harmful UV and IR rays and render it safe for even the most rare and delicate of oil paintings.

The Phantom Contour hides near the ceiling and delivers an invisible beam of light that also remains hidden until it strikes a painting, sculpture, or rare furniture arrangement. This is called the “lighted from within” effect which has made us famous for museum-quality art lighting fixtures and sculpture lighting all over the world.

What if I want to hang art in my client’s den and they already have eyeball fixtures in the ceiling?
No problem. We can supply you with a retrofit art lighting projector that you can install in the same sockets the eyeball fixtures currently occupy. Not only will this represent a simple upgrade in terms of switching fixtures, but it will also avoid the need to cut into your client’s ceiling to install the projector.

We manufacture fine art projectors here in our Houston, Texas headquarters, then distribute them through a network of nationwide lighting suppliers and sales representatives that fans out throughout all 50 states into cities like Washington D.C., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, (PIT) Atlanta, GA (ATL), Marina Del Rey, California, Coral Gables, Fl, Redmond, Washington (RDM), Memphis, Tennessee (MEM), Madison, WI, (MSN) Portland, Oregon, (PDX) and Stamford, CT. We also service clients internationally, with lighting manufacturer representatives working out of Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America.

We invite you to call a Phantom Agent toll free 800-863-1184 to obtain more information on all of these options. You can also request literature on our main website, visit our mobile phantom website, or read through the many informative summaries and FAQs located on our lighting blog. All of these resources contain a wealth of information about our custom; low-voltage lighting installations that are the dream come true of art lighting designers and cabinet lighting builders on two major continents.

Do you supply rope lights as cabinet and cove lights?
No. We acknowledge the decorative benefits of rope lights in certain decorative applications such as holiday lighting and patio lighting. However, rope lighting is not an ideal choice for cabinet lighting or cove lighting construction.

This is due to a number of reasons. For one thing it is difficult to control the reflective glare that comes off appliances and countertops when you are using rope lights as under cabinet lights. While cove rope lights do supply plentiful illumination to these surfaces, they lack the adequate shielding that is needed to keep too much light from shining onto a surface and then back into the eyes.

By the same token, it is also very hard to control the direction of the lighting itself with these simple fixtures. Light shines in all directions and reflects off of everything at once and you have no glare shields to conceal or hide the source.

What about using rope lights as cove or over the cabinet lights?
While it may be tempting to install them as low-cost cove lights and over the cabinet lights, we recommend you avoid this as well. Rope lights have a relatively short life expectancy, so if one light in the string fails, the rest go down with it. This will result in half the cove being lit and the other left in darkness, and cause the homeowner to have to go find a lighting supply source on their own to find a replacement. This is not an inconvenience that you want your client to inherit. Phantom cove lights use long life 2800K festoon lamps that provide years of trouble free service.

What can you supply as a cabinet and cove lighting alternative?
We are glad you asked this. Our custom LED energy saving linear lights have been engineered for custom manufacturing and low-profile design. This essentially means that a linear strip is created to fit a specific cabinet interior, over the cabinet top shelf, or cove near the ceiling.

We are perhaps the only luxury lighting supplier currently working in this marketplace that offers this degree of customization, and who can manufacture and deliver the product so expeditiously and cost-effectively for the contractor.

All you need to do is give us the dimensions of the cabinet or cove you intend to light and decide on what level of light and colour temperature is most appropriate for the initial home interior design for the new construction. Our lighting supply representative network and manufacturing facility in Houston, TX will take care of the rest.

What advantages do Phantom Cabinet and Cove Lighting Fixtures provide over standard fixtures made for the same purpose?
For one thing, they present a highly adaptable and resilient fixture made with onboard glare shields pre-mounted to the lighting fixture. This supply a much more controlled and evenly distributed spread of luminance under a cabinet or over a cove. Phantom cabinet lighting fixtures are also engineered for maximum concealment. Rather than using visible, external wires to conduct current, our lighting transformer supplies power to the lamps through metal shelf supports and bus bars along the strip. This allows the homeowner to remove shelving for cleaning or redecorating without risk of damage to the strips or fear of electric shock.

Our linear strip lighting manufacturing plant is located in Houston, Texas. A network of nationwide lighting supply agents fans out throughout all 50 states into cities like Ft. Lauderdale, FL (FLL), Orlando, Florida (MCO), Santa Monica, CA, (LAX) Columbus, Ohio (CMH), (LGA) New York, NY, (JKF), St. Louis, MO, Detroit, Michigan (DTW), Madison, WI (MSN), San Francisco, California (SFO), and Omaha, Nebraska (OMA). We also service clients internationally, with lighting manufacturer representatives working out of Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America.

We invite you to contact us toll free 800-863-1184 to obtain more information on all of these options. You can also request literature on our main website, visit our phantom mobile website, or read through the many informative summaries and FAQs located on our lighting blog. All of these resources contain a wealth of information about our custom; low-voltage lighting products that are the dream come true of art lighting designers and cabinet lighting builders on two major continents.