The Lighting Loft is a lighting showroom in Winston-Salem, NC that runs whole-home lighting packages for custom and spec home builders across the Piedmont Triad, and delivers larger jobs across North Carolina. We handle the take off, the selections, the allowance, the warehousing, and the labeled delivery, so lighting is the one part of the build you never have to chase.
Every photo on this page features lighting we sold, in homes right here in the area.
Lighting pictured: sold by The Lighting Loft, in a home here in the area.
Lighting is easy to treat as the boring line item, the thing you just need to get up before the final walkthrough. But it is the first thing a buyer reacts to, in the listing photos and the moment they step inside. Done well, it makes every finish look better than it cost: the kitchen reads bright and calm, the millwork shows, the photos pop, and buyers walk in already impressed. For a builder, that is value you did not have to frame or tile to get.
Done badly, it works against the whole house. A pendant that is too small over a big island, a cool white bulb next to a warm one, a foyer fixture hung at the wrong height. Buyers cannot always name what is off, but they feel it, and it shows up in the offers and the days on market.
Professional lighting design is scale, placement, color temperature, and layers. It is what turns a finished house into one that photographs, shows, and sells, and it comes with every builder job we run.
One process, four steps, and none of them on your plate. This is how lighting runs when the showroom does the carrying.
Our favorite way to start is on site after rough-in and before drywall. We walk every room with the plans and handle the take off ourselves, so sizing and placement are right. On a tight turnaround or a job farther out, send us the electrical plans and we will build the fixture schedule from those. We just like to see the space when we can.
On custom builds we sit down with your homeowner, with you in the room or not, your call, and guide them to fixtures that fit the house and the budget. The style conversations happen here instead of on your phone at the jobsite. On spec builds we build the package with you, around the look you are going for and the number you need to hit.
Every selection is logged against the allowance as it happens, so your client always knows where they stand before they commit. When selections are done you get a room-by-room selection sheet and fixture schedule for your file, with the numbers already settled. Overages only ever happen as an informed decision made in the showroom.
We hold every fixture for as long as the job needs. When you call for them, whole-house orders ride to the jobsite free across the Triad, every box labeled by room, so your electrician knows exactly what hangs where. Bigger jobs travel farther.
If anything goes wrong on the job, a fixture shows up with broken glass, a part is missing, something fails after it is hung, let us know. We work to get it fixed for you in a timely manner, and we deal with the manufacturer so you do not have to. One call, and it is handled.
Real builder pricing across 25+ premium brands, and not just the chandeliers. Door chimes, flood lights, undercabinet lighting, garage wraps, ceiling fans, bath bars: the entire schedule under one roof and on one invoice. The one thing we leave to your electrical supplier is recessed cans.
No off-the-shelf bundles. We build each spec package around the look you are going for and the number you need to hit, because what you are selling is the sale. Lighting is the first thing a buyer notices in the photos and at the walkthrough. It flatters the house, it flatters your brand, and it helps the property move. Best look for the best price, every time.
Every product we sell is warrantied against defects for a year. Broken glass in the box, a missing part, a wrong finish, a fixture that flickers: call us, not the manufacturer. We chase the replacement so you do not have to.
When a fixture goes on backorder, you hear it from us right away, with an ETA and a substitution that keeps the look and the price. Your install date holds.
Whole-house and multi-room orders ride to the jobsite free across the Triad. Bigger jobs travel farther. Smaller orders, just ask and we will work it out.
The Lighting Loft is a division of Plyler Supply, supplying Winston-Salem's trades since 1991, so we will be here for your next build too. Set up a builder account and keep the paperwork easy: account holders earn a 2% discount when invoices are paid within the pay period.
Most of our builders build within an hour of the showroom, from downtown Winston-Salem out through Clemmons, Lewisville, and Bermuda Run, and over to Greensboro and High Point. Larger jobs travel farther. We have delivered whole-house packages across North Carolina, and we are happy to talk about yours wherever it is.
Building somewhere we have not listed? Send us the plans and we will tell you exactly how we can help.
Tell us what you are building and we will take it from there. Fill out the form and it lands directly with our builder team, or call the showroom during shop hours. Most builders hear back the same business day.
Pick "Send a client for selections" below. We schedule the appointment, keep you in the loop, and track every selection against the allowance so you never get surprised.
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