Most lighting in $1M+ homes is good fixtures wired to bad scenes. Jimmy designs lighting from the floor plan up: where you read, where you cook, where you walk in from the garage at 11 p.m. with a sleeping kid on your shoulder.
DMF Lighting for downlights, adjustables, and architectural linear. Lutron Ketra, USAI, Arteriors, Visual Comfort, and Apure round out the rest of the catalog. For decorative, he works with whatever your designer specs.
Lighting design starts at framing – not at trim-out. Jimmy walks the house with the GC and the electrician at rough-in to verify can locations, blocking for cove details, and conduit runs for tunable-white drivers. He returns at trim, and again after move-in, to balance scenes once the furniture, art, and rugs are in place.
The result is a house where you stop noticing the lighting. The kitchen island is bright at 7 a.m. and warm at 8 p.m. The hallway downlights don't hit you in the eye on the way to bed. The art is lit. The art frames aren't.
