Clean Finish Electrical · Lighting and design
Lighting design and installation in Orange County
You want the lighting to look like someone planned it, not like it landed wherever the framing happened to allow.
Texting is fastest. Brian usually answers within the hour during the day.
What it usually involves
Recessed lighting is the most requested job, and the most common way it goes wrong is a layout driven by the joists instead of the room. Brian lays out cans against your furniture plan, your ceiling lines, and where you actually stand and work, then figures out how to get them there. Sometimes that means a can lands an inch or two off from where a contractor doing it the fast way would put it; that inch is the difference between even light and a room with shadows in the wrong places.
Pendants over an island or a table get the same treatment, aligned to the millimeter over the counter or the table center, not eyeballed from the ceiling joist that happened to be nearby. Two pendants that are visibly off-center from the sink or the table read as a mistake every time you look at them, and Brian sets them so they never do.
Under-cabinet LED is common in kitchens, and the detail that separates a clean job from a sloppy one is the driver: the small transformer box that powers the strip. A driver mounted in the open, or a cable left visible along the cabinet face, undoes the whole point of under-cabinet lighting. Brian hides it inside the cabinet or the soffit so all you see is the light.
Dimmers go on anything worth dimming: living rooms, dining rooms, bedrooms, anywhere the mood of the room changes with the time of day. He also installs ceiling fans, and pays the same attention to a fan's balance and mounting as he does to a light fixture, since a wobbling fan is its own kind of unfinished.
Outside, Brian handles exterior lighting on the house itself and landscape lighting in the yard: path lights, uplighting on a tree or a facade, and anything that needs to survive irrigation and weather without corroding or shorting out within a year.
None of this happens without a plan first. Brian has a design background, and before he runs a single wire he works out the layout on paper or on your floor plan, so you see the final look before the ceiling gets a single hole in it.
What it usually costs
Call or text for a quote. Every house is different.
Every house is different. Text a photo and Brian will give you a real number before he shows up.
Questions people ask about lighting
Can you add recessed lights without opening the whole ceiling?
Usually, yes. Most recessed light installs go in through small, deliberate cuts sized to the fixture, not a torn-open ceiling. Brian patches every cut before he leaves.
Do you patch the drywall?
Yes. Every cut he makes gets patched, and if the patch is not right he goes back and fixes it. A finished light job means the ceiling looks untouched except for the light itself.
Warm or cool light?
Most living spaces read best around 2700 to 3000 Kelvin, a warm white rather than a stark white. Brian brings sample bulbs so you can see the actual color in your room before anything is installed, instead of guessing from a box label.
What does it cost?
Every house is different, so Brian does not publish prices. Text a photo of what you have and he will give you a real number before he shows up.
Can you match what my designer specified?
Yes. Send the lighting plan and the fixture list your designer put together, and Brian will install to that spec rather than substituting his own layout.
Request a quote
Tell Brian what is going on.
Fastest: text a photo to (949) 357-6448. The form below works too, but allow 24 to 48 hours for a reply.
Texting is fastest. Brian usually answers within the hour during the day.