Decorative Accent Lights for Cove Lighting
Both homes and commercial buildings require decor to set the mood for lifestyle expression and profitable business. Decorative accent lighting for ceiling coves is one very vital element of decor, because it fills the totality of interior space with light all the way to the top of the ceiling, and it adds visual impact and multidimensional presence to interior decorating and architecture.
General room lighting, no matter how sophisticated and professionally installed, will often miss the spaces between coves and ceilings and consequently cast shadows in these areas. Custom linear strip lighting fixtures made specifically for cove lighting, however, can fill these dark places with decorative accent light that compliments other layers of interior lighting and adds special effect and charm to any occasion.
We recommend that builders, homeowners, business owners, and managers use Phantom linear strips for decorative accent cove lighting rather than the standard cove rope lights so commonly used in new constructions. There as several reasons for this.
The bulbs in rope lights operate in series. In layman’s terms, this means that each bulb depends on the preceding bulb in the series for electrical power. When a bulb goes out, every bulb past that point in the series ceases to operate. Unattractive gaps in the lighting will then appear along the top of the ceiling, and there will be costs associated with having a lighting or interior designer come out and climb all over ladders to replace the entire string.
Phantom overcomes these challenges with concealed linear strips engineered for a high-level of optical precision. Reflectors blend the light from each LED festoon lamp in such a way as to create a contiguous eminence of illumination that appears to magically spring from an unknown source at the very top of the ceiling cove.
Our decorative accent and cove lighting construction methods and technology are intended to let you see the light, but never see the fixture. This is why our linear strips are custom manufactured to the dimension of ceiling cove surfaces. Standard linear strips available through retail sources may be able to produce similar effects in terms of decorative accent light distribution, but they often obtrude visibly into the scene and diminish the presentation of interior design motifs.
Our technology is also designed for maximum aesthetic impact. Incandescent and xenon festoons, which are still requested by some builders, can be regulated in terms of heat, power consumption, and light output with user-friendly dimmer controls. This is important when you are decorating a room with multiple layers of interior light that have to work together in harmony to create a grand and unified interior design.
In both the custom home building world, and now the commercial world, the cost effectiveness of Phantom decorative accent lighting is better than ever before thanks to the emergence of LED energy saving festoon lamps. Restaurants, hotels, and casinos are using our products for cove lighting in some of the largest rooms in their buildings.
Now operating at only .6 watt per festoon, a Phantom LED linear strip light represents truly insignificant operating costs and practically no heat output. Color temperatures available for these new products make them such a close match to incandescent and xenon that the decorative impact they offer is on par with the savings they create.
We invite you to contact us at 800-863-1184 to obtain more information. You can also visit our mobile website, or read through the many informative summaries and frequently asked questions 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 lighting designers and cabinet lighting builders on two major continents.
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