Lighting & Home Entertainment

If two-by-fours and timbers are the bones of a home, its light fixtures are its jewelry. A warm glow here, an accentuating pendant there make for fine illuminated accents.

Proper lighting is essential to enjoying your living space. Well-lit rooms have multiple layers of illumination to enhance various tasks and to set off décor. A combination of fixtures is appropriate for most rooms. Fixtures come in a wide variety of styles, from the very traditional to the ultra modern. Ever-improving technology, such as compact fluorescent light bulbs and LED fixtures, offers tantalizing options for custom lighting and Earth-minded energy efficiency.

Home entertainment systems, meanwhile, add a jolt of fun and convenience to the abode. State-of-the-art home theater setups bring the immersive movie experience under your roof. Integrated audio/video systems make listening to music or watching a favorite DVD anywhere in the home as easy as pushing the button on a remote. And automation systems make the single-button push do more, from dimming the lights to adjusting the indoor temperature.

If every American replaced three incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs, the $3 billion in energy savings could light more than 15 million homes a year and prevent greenhouse gas emissions equal to 4 million cars. –Minnesota GreenStar

Trend Talk

“One trend is the ‘collected’ look in lighting. New patterns and colors have been put together to create a fresh approach to traditional lighting. Finishes have been reworked to include gold, silver, and patinas.” –Kari Cartier, Cartier Lighting and Home

Shelter Savvy

“Outdoor lighting is an important feature of any landscape. Lighting always improves safety and security. It can be used to accent and highlight important features of the architecture and outdoor environment, and extends the timeframe for viewing outdoor spaces.” –Yardscapes, Inc.

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ORION HOME SYSTEMS

Eagan, MN

651-994-0666
www.orionhomesystems.com

About us…

Orion Home Systems is a custom low-voltage company that specializes in residential new construction work. Our range of services include home theater, whole-house audio, security, lighting control, central vacuum systems, and surveillance. We are truly dedicated to achieving 100 percent customer satisfaction. We take great pride in our installation department and are involved with continuing education programs.

What is your motto?

We deliver the best customer service in the industry, from the sale to the final installation.

You – our most important asset

We actually care about our customers and understand that you, the customers, are our most important asset. Orion is your partner in your home project, no matter how large or small. Our trained staff of technical professionals is dedicated to building long-term relationships with each of our clients by offering quality projects and an exceptional level of personal service.

TREND TALK “Less is more. Today’s home automation and entertainment systems are easy to use. Instead of old technology with six different remotes, today we have just one simple-to-operate remote.”– Orion Home Systems

photo: Cartier Lighting and Home
CARTIER LIGHTING & HOME

Plymouth, MN

763-476-9555
www.CartierLighting.com

What is your specialty?

Cartier Lighting and Home specializes in all types of residential and commercial lighting. We take pride in our customer care, product value, and design service excellence. Builders, designers, architects, and other industry professionals consistently put Cartier Lighting and Home at the top of their list as the go-to lighting resource. Be it style, product selection, or new technology, we continue to light the way and have been recognized as the Twin Cities’ best lighting showroom.

Not just indoor lighting

Cartier Lighting pioneered landscape lighting in the Twin Cities area and built a lab within our showroom that demonstrates path, accent, grazing, moon lighting, and other techniques.

You may not know…

Recently, we supplied all of the decorative lighting for Live Green Live Smart’s Sustainable House project in Minnetonka, which was awarded LEED Platinum certification, a first in Minnesota. Cartier Lighting has a dedicated staff person who specializes in “green” innovative products and efficient lighting applications.

Why Cartier?

We provide our customers with solutions to their lighting and decorative needs through a consultative process. Our professional lighting consultants focus their attention on your sense of style and the specifics of your space to find just the right design scheme. As a result, Cartier forms loyal relationships.

TREND TALK “LED lighting has become an industry buzzword because of its ‘green’ benefits of burning cooler and lasting longer. Currently, it is widely used in under-cabinet and task reading lights. Watch
for new LED lighting to be integrated into decorative lighting for the bath, landscape, and recess lighting.” –Kari Cartier, Cartier Lighting and Home