About Us
Custom Designed Lights by CDS Lighting Studio
Our company has been in business for over 23 years. We’ve captured the southwestern market with our work since 1999 and now we want to show our other design styles. We offer a multitude of designs from a whimsical modern decor to the beachy look along the coastal areas. We would like to help you enhance your home or business with a style that you’ve been looking for. Our lights are unique and handcrafted and are made in the USA. Let us create something spectacular for your desires.
Motto – “The Lights You’ve Been Lookin’ For”. Because since we started offering our lights to the public in 2003, we kept hearing people say, “these are the lights we’ve been looking for”.
At our lighting store we love helping homeowners replace their boring cookie cutter lights, which are probably the same as their neighbors, and personalize their home with a look that is of their own. Customers can select from the lights that we have on our site or may choose their design, the style of the shape they want the design to go on and any one of our colors to have the light finished. Custom Designed Lights started out with southwest style lighting, such as the Kokopelli and petroglyph sun, for the walls, but offers so much more now.
Mike and Lydia Baker
Interesting Facts
Facts and Features About Our Lights.
Ceramic Lighting
At our lighting store we love helping homeowners replace their boring cookie cutter lights, which are probably the same as their neighbors, and personalize their home with a look that is of their own. Customers can select from the lights that we have on our site or may choose their design, the style of the shape they want the design to go on and any one of our colors to have the light finished. Southwest Ceramic Lighting started out with southwest style lighting, such as the Kokopelli and petroglyph sun, for the walls, but offers so much more now.
Dark Sky Lighting
Dark Sky Lighting: All of our wall sconces can be ordered as dark sky compliant. We keep the top solid instead of cutting it out for light going upward. The sconce is finished with your color choice. Many other subdivisions and municipalities are requiring that no light be seen from the front of the light either. In this case, we can add a contrasting day plate of brushed and sealed copper or stainless steel behind the design, so that during the day the design stands out but at night all you have is the light flowing downward. Please call for more details.
ADA Compliant Lights
So what’s it mean for lighting? For lighting design, the ADA sets standards for the clearance of hanging lights and the distance a wall light fixture or sconce can extend from the wall, and the height it can be above the floor surface. Southwest Ceramic Lighting follows the guidelines for ADA installation specify that a wall light be no more than 4-inches from the wall and be mounted between 2-feet 4-inches to 6-feet 8-inches above the finished floor. These standards are of vital importance when designing for public spaces and commercial buildings to ensure that hallways, bathrooms and more can be accessed by everyone. The ADA guideline also have many practical implications for consumers and residential homes. Indeed, any home space can benefit from ADA lighting fixtures.
Our Core Styles
Explore All Our Designs
Lodge & Rustic
Architectual & Modern
Seashore & Beachy
