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Custom Deer Crest home
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Custom Deer Crest home

Custom Deer Crest Home

Frosted tips! This stunning Deer Crest residence is folded into Mother Nature with precision and grace, captured here beneath a veil of fresh snow and towering frosted trees. The landscape feels untouched—but every detail in this home was planned with intention, especially the lighting.

Architectural Lighting Design plays a crucial role in a home like this. Nestled in nature, the lighting must enhance both interior comfort and the exterior view. It’s not about overpowering the environment—it’s about working with it. Our lighting systems create warmth and clarity while maintaining the quiet magic of the surroundings. Whether it’s gently highlighting natural wood beams or adding ambient glow to exterior overhangs, the result is harmony between light and landscape.

Behind every glow is a team effort. We conduct walkthroughs during critical stages—like pre-drywall—to review lighting plans, dimming controls, and electrical engineering. These meetings ensure precision, prevent surprises, and align every trade on the details that matter most. Collaboration on this project with Upwall Design, McNulty Construction, and Ridgeline Electric has been exceptional.

Nature is the backdrop. Lighting is the story. And this Custom Deer Crest home is a masterclass in both.

Ready to bring your next custom home to life? Let’s talk.

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Light and mood setting dimming

Warming up this Sun Valley, Idaho with our artistry in light and mood setting dimming. Doesn’t hurt to have an amazing palette and setting to work with. @mclaughlinarchitects #sunvalleyidaho #mountainluxury #timberframing #lightingdesign Learn More

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Subtle Portal Grand Salon

Subtle Portal, Grand Salon

Architecture and light melded with perfection for this Atherton, CA masterpiece. Give your guests an entrance that will blow them away.

This grand salon exemplifies how Adaptive Design Group transforms architectural spaces into experiences through professional lighting design. A domed ceiling crowns the room, masterfully illuminated to emphasize its curves, scale, and grandeur. Every fixture, angle, and layer is carefully orchestrated to highlight the architectural features while maintaining warmth and intimacy within the vast space.

The lighting design incorporates multiple layers to achieve depth and dimension. Art lighting ensures every painting, sculpture, and collectible commands attention without overpowering the space. Decorative lighting, including chandeliers and accent fixtures, introduces elegance while complementing the room’s classic design. Meanwhile, interior lighting illuminates furniture, tables, and curated vignettes, allowing the décor itself to shine and creating a cohesive, inviting environment.

While a Subtle Portal, this Grand Salon, demonstrates the delicate balance of luxury and function, showing how thoughtful lighting design can guide guests’ experiences from the moment they enter. Every detail is meticulously considered—fixtures are placed to highlight texture, shadow, and form while avoiding glare or visual clutter. The result is a subtle portal into a home where architecture and interior design are enhanced, not overshadowed, by light.

Adaptive Design Group specializes in bringing this level of precision, artistry, and technical expertise to every project. Whether your vision is classical elegance or modern sophistication, professional lighting design elevates your interiors to unforgettable experiences.

Contact us to bring architectural mastery and luxurious lighting design to your home.

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Precision execution

Precision Execution

Human minds in collaboration are magical.

When vision, artistry, and expertise come together, the result is something extraordinary. This incredible residence is a testament to what happens when every detail is thoughtfully designed, specified, and executed with precision. At Adaptive Design Group, collaboration has always been at the heart of our approach. Lighting design is not a solitary act—it is a conversation between disciplines, woven together to enhance architecture, interiors, and lifestyle.

For this project, we had the pleasure of working alongside two outstanding partners. Upwall Design (upwalldesign.com) brought architectural vision to life with their signature blend of artistry and functionality. Their ability to harmonize natural surroundings with interior flow created the perfect canvas for lighting to accentuate and elevate. Equally vital was SAP Development Group (sap-development.ca), whose dedication to precision and craftsmanship ensured that every detail of the home’s construction aligned seamlessly with the design intent.

Our role at Adaptive Design Group was to bring illumination into the equation—not simply to light a home, but to shape how it is experienced. From subtle architectural layers to feature-defining highlights, lighting was tailored to complement both the architecture and the art it houses. Together, the collaboration turned a residence into a living, breathing masterpiece.

Visualization. Artistry. Communication. Precision execution. These are the values we believe make a home timeless and enjoyable for generations. Bravo to this incredible team.

Let us help you on your next collaborative project!

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Make it memorable

Make It Memorable

Luxury, Comfort, and Seamless Design

A front door is more than just an entry point—it’s the first impression, the introduction to the life inside. At Adaptive Design Group, we believe that true luxury is defined not by extravagance alone, but by three essential qualities: comfort, practicality, and seamless integration. When you enter a home designed with this philosophy, every detail—from lighting to automation to architectural accents—works in harmony to create a space that feels effortless and inviting.

Lighting plays a central role in shaping this experience. Thoughtfully designed exterior and interior illumination highlights architectural elements, guides your path, and creates a sense of welcome. Every fixture is strategically placed to enhance both aesthetics and function, blending decorative, task, and ambient lighting into a cohesive whole. The result is a front entrance that is striking, practical, and intuitive, no matter the time of day or season.

Beyond lighting, our work incorporates integrated systems that streamline your daily life. From motorized shades and dimming control to access management and environmental automation, each layer is designed to operate invisibly, enhancing comfort without distraction. Collaborating closely with architects, interior designers, and homeowners, we ensure that each detail contributes to a harmonious and luxurious environment.

True luxury doesn’t shout—it resonates. A front door should set the tone for the home inside: welcoming, precise, and elegant. With Adaptive Design Group, your entrance becomes a memorable experience, the perfect start to a life lived with comfort, practicality, and seamless sophistication.

Contact us today to elevate your home’s first impression with expert Architectural Lighting Design and integrated systems.

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Lighting design for 40 years

Lighting Design for 40 Years

Vision, Artistry, and Technology in Perfect Harmony

Without light, color does not exist. And in the world of architecture, light is the element that brings design to life. For 40 years, Adaptive Design Group has been applying our craft to remarkable residential, commercial, and cultural spaces, turning vision into reality through architectural lighting design. Every project is an opportunity to combine technical precision with artistic sensibility, creating environments that are as functional as they are visually stunning.

Our approach is grounded in both theory and practice. We understand how light interacts with surfaces, textures, and materials—how shadows and highlights shape perception, and how layers of light can define spaces. From architectural lighting that emphasizes structure, to decorative lighting that complements interiors, and integrated control systems that allow seamless automation, each element is carefully orchestrated. The goal is always to enhance the human experience, guiding the eye, evoking emotion, and creating ambiance that feels natural yet extraordinary.

Over four decades, our experience has taught us that great lighting is never accidental. It is a blend of careful planning, precise execution, and collaborative design. Working alongside architects, interior designers, and homeowners, we ensure that every space achieves its fullest potential, whether it’s a modern mountain retreat, a classical coastal estate, or a contemporary urban residence.

Adaptive Design Group’s longevity in the industry is a testament to our commitment to quality, innovation, and artistry. We transform architecture with light, making each space not just seen, but truly felt.

Discover the power of expert architectural lighting design—contact Adaptive Design Group to illuminate your vision.

Wine Country Contemporary homes in California
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Contemporary homes in California Wine Country

Wine Country Contemporary homes in California

Wine Country Contemporary homes in California represent a rare balance of refined architecture and effortless living — where landscape, structure, and light exist in quiet harmony. At Adaptive Design Group, we were honored to be invited into this vision, collaborating with BAR Architects to bring our artistry of lighting design into these exceptional residences.

In these contemporary wine country estates, the architecture speaks through clean lines, natural materials, and a deep connection to the surrounding vineyards and terrain. Lighting, in this context, cannot overpower the space — it must serve it. Every detail must feel intentional and understated, enhancing the experience rather than distracting from it. This is where our work begins.

Glenn Merlin Johnson and the Adaptive Design Group team approach projects like these with a philosophy grounded in subtlety and precision. We observe how sunlight moves across walls, stone, wood, and glass throughout the day. We evaluate how residents will live, gather, entertain, and retreat. Only then do we begin to sculpt light in a way that complements both the architectural vision and the rhythms of life inside the home.

Working alongside BAR Architects, our team developed layered lighting strategies that emphasize architectural form, celebrate texture, and bring warmth to the clean, modern aesthetic. From concealed architectural light sources that wash stone and wood surfaces, to carefully integrated ambient illumination that softens evening transitions, every layer was designed to feel natural, cohesive, and timeless.

These wine country homes are not simply structures — they are sanctuaries. The relationship between interior and exterior living is essential here. Lighting needed to gracefully bridge patios, terraces, and vineyard views with interior spaces, allowing the homes to breathe with the landscape and shift beautifully from day to night.

What makes projects like this truly successful is collaboration. Our role is not to override architecture, but to amplify it. By working in sync with the architects and the full design team, we ensure that lighting feels like it was always meant to be there — invisible in its presence, unforgettable in its effect.

At Adaptive Design Group, we believe that contemporary homes in landscapes as powerful as California’s wine country deserve lighting that matches their quiet sophistication.

If you’re designing a luxury residence and want illumination that honors both structure and setting, we welcome the opportunity to collaborate and bring your vision to light.

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Classic Mountain architecture

Beautiful Inside and Out! Classic Mountain architecture. Happy to team with Shope Reno Wharton Architects on the Park City, Utah Estate. @shoperenowharton Lighting Design, Integrated Dimming and Electrical Engineering by Glenn Merlin Johnson #lightingdesign #lightingcontrol #theartofillumination

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Maine architectural marvel

Classic New England. We added our lighting design and dimming artistry to this Maine architectural marvel. Home owner selected us as part of his design team with John Morris Architect and Ontario Design. Excellent collaboration! @johnmorrisarchitects .. @ontariodesigncompany #theartofillumination #luxuryhomesnewengland #luxuryhomesmaine #customhomes #mainearchitecture

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Art of Illumination exemplified

Art of Illumination exemplified

Desert beauty reveals itself in subtle layers — light, shadow, texture, and silence working together in perfect balance. In environments like these, artistic lighting is never accidental. It is intentional, disciplined, and deeply rooted in understanding how architecture, interiors, and nature coexist.

Every successful space begins with vision. An inspired architect, thoughtful interiors, and an owner who trusts the process create the foundation. From there, it takes an artist and a technologist with light — someone who understands shadow, color temperature, dimming, and the vast landscape of product application — to translate that vision into a living, breathing environment. This is where Adaptive Design Group thrives.

In desert residences, lighting must work differently. Sunlight is powerful and directional. Materials are tactile and honest — stone, plaster, glass, metal. Heat, reflection, and contrast are constant factors. Our role is to balance these elements so the home feels calm by day and welcoming by night. Light is shaped, not sprayed. Shadow is respected, not eliminated. Darkness is preserved so that illumination can feel meaningful.

The Art of Illumination is not about making light visible — it is about making architecture feel alive. When lighting is done correctly, it accentuates and never distracts. It guides the eye without announcing itself. It reveals craftsmanship without overpowering it. It allows art, structure, and materials to speak with clarity and purpose.

This is why collaboration matters. The architect sets the vision. The interior designer refines the experience. The homeowner brings intention. And Adaptive Design Group brings the language of light — interpreting form, texture, and space through carefully layered illumination. Each decision is considered. Each fixture is placed with respect for the architecture. Each lighting scene is programmed to serve real life, not just aesthetics.

Artistic lighting is not achieved by chance or trend. It is built through knowledge, restraint, and decades of experience. It comes from understanding that light is not a decoration — it is an architectural material.

This is the Art of Illumination exemplified. If you are creating a space where light must feel natural, intentional, and deeply connected to the architecture, we invite you to connect with Adaptive Design Group and discover what thoughtful illumination can bring to your project.

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