About
Lighting By Design is owned and operated by Linda J. Chinn, lighting consultant and designer with 21 years of professional experience in fine residential lighting. Services range from personalized consultation and custom lighting designs to job planning, specification, and supervision. Scope of work includes custom interiors, exteriors, and landscape lighting systems.
Lighting By Design is a professional member of American Lighting Association since 1998.
Career Achievements and projects
- Designed kitchen lighting for 2003 Symphony Designer House (Bocock House)
- Residential landscape lighting pictures of project printed and personally quoted in feature article of Richmond Magazine June, 2000 issue
- Interviewed and quoted in feature article on home lighting in Ohio Magazine June 1999
- Designed lighting display for large local retail lighting distributor
- Designed showroom lighting for following:
- Kitchen Designworks, Richmond, VA
- Cline Contract Sales, Midlothian, VA
- Vailes Brothers Appliance Showroom, Fishersville, VA
- Pictures of our landscape lighting may be seen in the current Hadco Landscape Lighting Specification Guide catalogue pages 103 bottom center and entire page 105. Lighting By Design and Terra Forma Landscape Architects won one of the prizes for the annual Hadco job picture contest.
Training and Education
- Advanced lighting control specialist designation from Lutron for Radio Ra lighting remote control systems - 2002.
- Residential Lighting Design and Plan Layout seminars by the American Lighting Association 1996, 1998
- Lightolier Distributor College, Compton, CA 1988
- Basic Lighting Fundamentals certification from American Lighting Association 1989
- Lighting Manufacturer trainings with Casablanca Fan Co., Kichler, Hadco, and Fredrick Ramond
- B.A. Longwood College, Farmville, VA