About Luminvante · New York, NY

who decides where the light goes in your home, and did they ever stand in it?

Most rooms are lit by whatever the builder fitted and whatever lamps came next. Luminvante is a small New York studio that does it on purpose: we study your photos, draw the light in layers and hand you the plan, the schedule and the shopping list.

We work remotely, so a flat in the Bronx and a farmhouse in Vermont get the same attention and the same five-day turnaround.

Drawn at 220 Riverside, with the kettle on.
A lighting designer's desk with a ceiling plan on tracing paper, a ruler and a brass fixture sample under a warm lamp

How we got here

a dim kitchen, a stack of receipts and a better idea

Luminvante began with a familiar New York problem: a good apartment that never quite felt right after dark. One ceiling light, three lamps from three different decades, and a reading chair nobody could sit in without squinting.

The fix wasn’t more bulbs. It was a plan: what the room is for at six, at nine and at midnight, and which layer of light serves each moment. Neighbours started asking for the same, and it turned out the drawings could travel. A few photos and a floor plan tell us most of what we need.

So we built the studio around that. We charge by the room, we don’t sell fixtures, and every plan is drawn so your electrician can price it without a phone call back to us. The kind of service we’d want ourselves: unhurried, thorough and already handled when you open the file.

Our habits

what you can count on, whichever room we start with

  • we answer the question before you ask it

    Your confirmation email lists what we have, what we’d still like and what happens next, so there’s nothing to chase.

  • we draw for the person holding the wire strippers

    Circuits labelled, switch heights marked, dimmer types matched to drivers. Your electrician shouldn’t have to guess.

  • we never mark up a fixture

    You get links and two price tiers for each one and buy wherever suits you, retail or trade.

  • we stay for the revision call

    Read the plan over a weekend, then talk it through with us. Evening calls are available by appointment.

Before your first room

what we’ll ask, and what to have to hand

We’ll ask

how you live in the room

Where you read, cook, work and wind down, and what time of day it matters most.

We’ll ask

what you already own

Lamps and fixtures you love stay in the plan. We build around them, not over them.

We’ll ask

what you’d like to spend

A rough budget lets us set the sourcing list’s two tiers sensibly from the start.

We’ll ask

whether you rent or own

Renters get plug-in and no-rewire plans that leave the ceiling boxes alone.

what to bring to your first room

Nothing fancy. A phone and a few minutes will do.

  • One photo from each corner of the room, lights on and lights off
  • A floor plan, or a tape-measure sketch with the ceiling height
  • A photo of any switch panel or dimmer you already have
  • A line or two on what bothers you about the light right now

Ready when you are

send us the room that bothers you most

From $185 for a single room. We reply the same business day with a scope for your approval, and invoice only after you’ve said yes.

Mon–Fri 8am–7pm · evenings by appointment · info@luminvante.com

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