Illuminating Your Personal Experience
Residential Design
Designing lighting for a private residence is an intimately personal process, one that goes beyond even the most highly tailored efforts in the commercial sector.
Attention to detail is paramount, with each luminous gesture carefully crafted to meet the aesthetic preferences and functional requirements of the client. Our dedicated team of experts provides a comprehensive array of residential lighting services to meet the ever-evolving design challenges for homeowners around the world – no matter the scale, setting, or style of the project.
Lundy Residence
Denver Historic Remodel Residence
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Understand the Vision
To craft a luminous environment that feels truly coalescent with the home and reflective of the client’s tastes, our team maintains an ongoing collaborative dialogue with the homeowner and design team.
Accentuate the Exceptional
Lighting should underscore unique architectural features with carefully orchestrated layers of light to create dimension, highlight textures and forms, and imbue the home with a distinct personalized feel.
Celebrate the Transformative Power of Art
Lighting artwork requires exceptional care – each piece should be properly showcased with appropriate light levels, colors and sources.
Taslimi Residence
Midwest Art Condo
Denver Modern Residence
Pacific Palisades Residence
Private Residences
Modern Residences
Simple elegance, clean lines, and seamless connectivity — these are some of the hallmark traits of modern residential architecture, perhaps the most pervasive style among today’s high-end homes. In spaces where geometry and minimalism reign supreme, lighting crafts the experience of each room, adding depth and color and drawing the eye towards the things that matter most.
Design Team
Shubin + Donaldson
Magni Kalman Design
Background
17,426 sq.ft. | 1,619 sq.m.
Awards
Illuminating Engineering Society
Lumen West Award of Merit
ARCHITECT Light & Architecture
Commendable Achievement Award
Completion Date
September 2018
Pacific Palisades Residence
Pacific Palisades, California, United States
The multi-layered architecture of this secluded single-family residence celebrates and integrates its natural surrounds, creating an indoor-outdoor experience that flows intuitively from space to space. Lighting reinforces this concept with meticulous detailing that discretely highlights feature elements of the design without overwhelming the landscape.
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Lighting is seamlessly integrated into nearly every architectural feature, showcasing the client’s beloved art collection and accentuating the warmth of the refined material palette.
To preserve the integrity of the nearby ecosystem, HLB worked closely with the architect and the client to minimize light trespass and curate an intimate, inviting ambiance. The exterior lighting utilizes an intentionally muted approach to emphasize sweeping coastal views, giving the glowing interiors a cozy lantern-like effect against the scenic backdrop of the Santa Monica Mountains. A programmable preset controls system ties it all together, allowing the client to easily adjust light levels and configurations for different social scenarios.
Design Team
Oppenheim Architecture
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Studio B
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9,200 sq.ft. | 855 sq.m.
Completion Date December 2018
Lundy Residence
Aspen, Colorado, United States
The owner of this 1972 architectural classic sought to renovate and sell the home for profit, creating a particularly compelling challenge for the design team – preserving the integrity of the Modernist masterpiece while integrating twenty-first century technology.
The home’s indoor-outdoor concept welcomes natural light as a defining element of its interior experience, complemented by simple yet elegant solutions that accent art, provide ambient lighting, and add a touch of allure. At the exterior, invisible recessed wall sconces, downlighting, and hidden toekick lighting illuminate the darkened exterior, adding a warm glow to brick and stone.
In the living space, the lighting control system is easily managed via scene-set keypads integrated into the millwork, keeping the brick free of clutter and ensuring the room remains voluminous and serene.
Electric lighting is used to complement daylight, rather than overcome it, inviting darkness into private spaces during the evening hours with subtle accent lighting to add warmth and highlight materials.
Daylight punctures the below-grade lower-level hallway through a dramatic angled skylight, while perimeter accent coves play a complementary role, brightening the wall’s wood textures.
Design Team
Celeste Robbins
Robbins Architecture Background
7,500 sq.ft. | 697 sq.m.
Completion Date July 2018
Modern Ranch Residence
Aspen, Colorado, United States
The sprawling modern architecture of this ranch-style residence revels in the concept of asymmetry, purposefully emphasizing the art of being off-center with vignettes of artwork and furniture throughout. Generous windows provide sweeping views of the surrounding mountains and grasslands, creating a sense of connectivity between the home and the majestic landscape.
Snug groupings of recessed luminaires highlight art pieces and cozy furniture configurations, allowing interior elements to hold their own alongside the grandeur of the natural environment.
The concentrated formations of light lend a more intimate feeling to gathering spaces throughout the home’s open floor plan. To ease the transition from day to night, vertical surfaces are illuminated via ambient inverse coves, dramatic uplighting, and adjustable accents. Lighting scenes adjust to darker conditions as the evening progresses, with recessed lighting along the exterior that draws the eye past the windows and towards the hills.
Unexpected groupings of light highlight interior decor, accentuating the carefully balanced asymmetry of the home.
Private Residences
Traditional Residences
The classic forms and timeless elegance of traditional residences have an enduring appeal for buyers seeking a place that truly feels like home. Architectural features such as crown molding, vaulted ceilings, and a rich material palette should be celebrated through a sophisticated layered lighting approach that accentuates craftsmanship and ensures the home feels balanced and comfortable throughout the day.
Design Team Miles Architecture
Sheri Williams
Completion Date November 2013
Midwest Art Condo
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
The owner of this Midwestern condominium required specialized lighting for an extensive, eclectic art collection, which necessitated a varied palette of lighting techniques to properly showcase each piece. HLB worked closely with the architect and interior designer to understand the lighting needs for each subject and achieve seamless integration with the architecture, placing emphasis on the majesty of the artwork.
The client’s art collection consists of a mix of traditional and modern pieces with varied material palettes. In the entryway, a Chihuly chandelier is brought to life by a ring of accent lights. Oil paintings throughout are illuminated via subtle square aperture luminaires with soft focus lenses emitting a blurred beam that emphasizes the art without losing the bold colors of the wall.
Many works are displayed on the glass shelves in the hallway, which required layers of light from multiple directions to ensure each piece was highlighted. Edge lighting of the glass shelves illuminates the artwork from below and provides a reflected sparkle, while miniature recessed downlights in the lids of each shelf provide illumination from above.
Elegant lighting solutions throughout the home give visual importance to the client’s art pieces without losing the feeling that you’re in a residence.
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Completion
Denver Historic Remodel Residence
Denver, Colorado, United States
This charming 1905 home posed a compelling challenge for the lighting design team – how do you modernize a historic residence while preserving its unique character? For this remodeling effort, lighting accentuates both the revitalized contemporary architectural elements and the home’s historic features, tying everything together via an ecosystem of integrated lighting technology.
Converting an incandescent-based home to a modernized LED-based home with lighting controls allowed for increased light levels and decreased energy usage.
To modernize the home while keeping in tune with its historic character, the lighting is intentionally unobtrusive, directing focus to noteworthy elements throughout.
The dining room, living room, and office are seamlessly connected via crown molding uplights, celebrating the home’s historic charm and providing ambient lighting in each space. This approach also reinforces the natural flow of the home and makes use of warm dimming LEDs to create a cozy atmosphere that beckons from one room to the next. Downlights are grouped together for different purposes – some for art lighting, others for reading light over furniture. The versatility allows for a balanced luminous approach regardless of the time of day, mood, or occasion.
Private Residences
Rustic Residences
There is more than one way to create a sense of connection with the outdoors through architecture. In lieu of sweeping glass facades, rustic private residences utilize a natural material palette to create a warm and organic interior feel. Whether in the form of iron chandeliers, metallic sconces, or a myriad of more subtle approaches, lighting can heighten the rugged charm of these homes, complementing their bold structural forms and creating a cozy, inviting atmosphere.
Design Team
Finholm Architects
Atelier AM
Hansen Construction
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16,000 sq.ft. | 1,486 sq.m.
Awards
Illuminating Engineering Society
Brilliance Awards Residential Award of Merit
Completion Date
January 2011
Modern Log Residence
Aspen,
Colorado, United States
This modernized take on the traditional log cabin makes compelling use of architectural contrasts, pairing sleek contemporary forms with bold, rustic structural elements. Leaning into the theme of juxtaposition, lighting is integrated throughout the home in unexpected ways, utilizing both warm and cool tones to accentuate its singular design.
Thoughtfully integrated lighting creates moments of surprise and delight, such as the arrangement of wall sconces and bench lighting in the powder room.
The great room is illuminated via warm truss uplights that, when viewed from the exterior deck, balance comfortably with blue light emanating from the cove below.
Hidden lighting in the deck’s perimeter railing adds another layer of warm illumination for further visual intrigue. The cove is outfitted with blue and white luminaires that are shielded and aimed away from the spa below, ensuring a glare-free, comfortable environment that can be tuned to the preferences of the occupant. In the kitchen, a custom chandelier complements the dark material palette of the cabinetry and provides strong task lighting for the island below, exemplifying the lighting team’s commitment to creating tailored solutions that celebrate the allure of this unique, one-of-one home.
Design Team
Marcus Gleysteen Architects
Blackburn Architects
Completion Date December 2012
Beechwood Stables Equestrian Center
Weston, Massachusetts, United States
The owner of this private equestrian complex wanted a rustic getaway for day-to-day riding, entertaining guests, and hosting events. Complete with a riding arena, horse barn, and service barn that surround a cobblestone courtyard and outdoor riding ring, the property delivers on all fronts with abundant charm.
At the entry, guests are greeted by a glowing outdoor living room with a custom chandelier overhead, accent lighting on the fireplace, and copper sconces over the doorways. This palette of warm architectural materials and intimate lighting carries through to the interiors with a second chandelier and pendants of blackened steel, further emphasizing the property’s rustic elegance.
A custom chandelier comprised of blackened steel was designed to appear reminiscent of the straps and buckles of horse tack.
The riding arena is illuminated with two layers of light - pendants that provide general lighting and uplights mounted within wood beams to create mood lighting for events.
service barn has both general lighting within horse stalls for dayto-day care, plus copper pendants and wall sconces to create a cozy atmosphere.
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HLB Lighting Design
Southern California View Residence