Dallas is a wide market with a lot of architectural range. A 1930s Bluffview tudor and a new-build modern in Devonshire need different lighting plans, different shading approaches, and different keypad layouts. Jimmy Abrams designs each Dallas project from a walk-through, not from a template, because no two of these houses are the same.
Jimmy starts every Dallas project the same way: in the house with the homeowner. He listens to how the family uses each room, looks at the architecture and the interior design, and maps out where lighting and keypads need to live before he specifies a single fixture. On renovations he works around the constraints of finished plaster and original millwork. On new construction he is in the design meetings before low-voltage rough-in.
Lighting in a Dallas residence is layered. Architectural downlighting calibrated to the ceilings and the finishes. Decorative fixtures selected with the interior designer. Cove and tape lighting integrated into the millwork. Picture lighting tuned to the art. Landscape lighting around the front and the back, scheduled to the sun. All of it dimmable to two percent, all of it on a single Lutron HomeWorks or Control4 system, all of it controllable from a small number of well-placed engraved keypads.
Motorized shading in Dallas is part of almost every project. West-facing glazing in Lakewood, Bluffview, or Devonshire runs hot from three to seven in the summer, and the sun will fade rugs and artwork inside of two summers if nothing is moving the shades. Jimmy specifies whisper-quiet roller and roman shades with fabrics chosen against the room finishes, ties them to an astronomical clock, and groups them so the family rooms set themselves automatically.
The promise of CD Audio Video is simple. The person who walks your Dallas home in the first meeting is the same person who designs the system, programs the scenes, and answers the phone two years later. Twenty-five years inside the largest custom integration firms on the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex taught Jimmy what gets lost in the handoffs, and his studio exists to remove them.
If you live in Dallas and you are planning a renovation or building new, Jimmy will come walk the house with you for free. One conversation with the person who will do the work. No project managers, no salesperson, no pressure.