Our shop is at 18481 Grand Avenue in Lake Elsinore, which puts Wildomar, Murrieta, Temecula and Corona inside a short drive. This corridor is where we do the most work, and the housing along it has patterns worth knowing before you plan a lighting change. Three generations of housing, three different jobs Unlike Los Angeles, where everything is mixed together, this corridor is layered by era and you can usually tell which layer you are in. The older core Lake Elsinore and parts of Corona have...

Track lighting in Beverly Hills is rarely about getting light into a room. It is usually about lighting art, architecture or a specific surface, in a house where the ceiling is part of the finish and cannot simply be patched. Three things raise the bar here, and none of them is the track. The ceiling is a finish, not a substrate Much of the older housing here has plaster over lath, ornamental plaster, coffered or beamed ceilings, or detailed cornice work. Some of it is original and...

Here is a problem that is specific to where we work, and that almost nobody connects to the symptom. Modern lighting is electronics. An LED head has a driver. Low-voltage track has a transformer. Both are rated to operate within an ambient temperature range, and that rating assumes a normal indoor environment. An attic in the Inland Empire in August is not a normal indoor environment. Unvented attic space here routinely runs far above the outdoor air temperature, and the electronics mounted...