Phantom Lighting System

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.

Architects sometimes have difficulty finding specialty art lights and cove lights through traditional lighting supply channels. Lighting suppliers tend to stock their inventory with standard fixtures and move these products out the door as expeditiously as possible to maintain their own process flow. It is very difficult for some of them to custom order cove lights made for a specific ceiling area or type of ceiling, and many manufacturers they represent do not even make custom fixtures at all.

Art lights obtained through typical supply houses are often generic and obtrusively interfere with the viewer’s appreciation of the art. This is one of the main reasons why architects turn to Phantom Lighting. We custom manufacture and supply cove lighting fixtures tailor made to the specifications of vaulted ceilings, domes, trusses, valances, and serpentine coves. In essence, anything the architect designs is something we can light.

We can particularly serve the architect as a custom cove lighting supplier for high-end residential and commercial interiors. The Phantom CM cove lighting series offer a potential radius fit of up to 360 degrees. This makes it possible to create a fixture that fits the circular interior of a dome in a commercial building, or to create a fixture those winds hidden along the top of a serpentine contour of a ceiling cove. This degree of flexibility makes the CM series architect’s dream when it comes to illuminating theme-oriented restaurant interiors such as Houston’s Aquarium. This recent project involved supplying a local architect with CM fixtures fitted with 2800K LED festoon lamps. The effects we were able to create rivaled those of xenon lamps with a colour temperature that matched the sand and water color scheme of the interior design.

Architects involved in similar restaurant design projects have also been able to create some very sophisticated lighting effects with our Contour Projector products. These clean and sophisticated looking projectors flush-mount to the ceiling and can be fitted with gobos to project images onto walls. Perry’s steakhouse in Austin, TX recently had a pattern gobo created to project their logo into their main lobby. Architects involved in restaurant and hotel planning can use this versatile combination of pattern gobo and projector to supply lighting effects that give their clients a winning, competitive edge in branding.

The same art projector and cove lights we supply to commercial architects also serve the residential architect equally well. Custom homes are built for interior decorating, and the low profile design of both our Contour Projectors and our linear cove lighting strips offers a greater freedom of interior decorating. Design professionals can hang art in any location appropriate to display and have it “lighted from within” by projector requisitioned by the architect prior to build out. They can also count on having more ambient lighting near the top of the room with energy saving LED cove lights that will save them money and compliment whatever work is subsequently done by an interior decorator with an additional layer of light.

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 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 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 expert art lighting designers and cabinet lighting builders on two major continents.