how you live in the room
Where you read, cook, work and wind down, and what time of day it matters most.
About Luminvante · New York, NY
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.
How we got here
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
Your confirmation email lists what we have, what we’d still like and what happens next, so there’s nothing to chase.
Circuits labelled, switch heights marked, dimmer types matched to drivers. Your electrician shouldn’t have to guess.
You get links and two price tiers for each one and buy wherever suits you, retail or trade.
Read the plan over a weekend, then talk it through with us. Evening calls are available by appointment.
Before your first room
Where you read, cook, work and wind down, and what time of day it matters most.
Lamps and fixtures you love stay in the plan. We build around them, not over them.
A rough budget lets us set the sourcing list’s two tiers sensibly from the start.
Renters get plug-in and no-rewire plans that leave the ceiling boxes alone.
Nothing fancy. A phone and a few minutes will do.