Our Work


Custom homes across North Idaho — kitchens, great rooms, wine cellars, smart home controls, and the panel work behind all of it. These are our own photos from our own jobs.

Kitchens & living spaces

Where the lighting has to be right

Islands, pendants, under-cabinet runs, and the layout work that decides where every can and box lands before the drywall goes up. More on how we plan a room: lighting design.

Large custom kitchen in Coeur d'Alene with a row of glass pendant lights over the island, dark cabinets and exposed timber beams

Glass pendant run over a custom island

Kitchen with a cluster of pendant lights and a large round ceiling fixture over blue barstools, set under timber beams

Pendant cluster and feature fixture under beams

Modern open-plan kitchen and living area in North Idaho with tall windows and pendant lighting over the island

Open-plan kitchen and living, North Idaho

Minimal white contemporary kitchen with a waterfall island and integrated lighting

Integrated lighting, waterfall island

Wet bar with wood cabinets and under-cabinet lighting

Wet bar with under-cabinet lighting

Great rooms & ceilings

Tall ceilings, no room for error

Beam and barrel ceilings get laid out before anything is cut. Once the timber is up, the holes are permanent — so we plan them with the builder, not after him.

Radial timber-beam ceiling with recessed lights set between the beams

Recessed cans in a radial beam ceiling

Great room with an arched barrel timber ceiling lit from above

Arched barrel timber ceiling, lit

Lodge great room in Coeur d'Alene with a stone fireplace and mounted elk, lit by overhead fixtures

Lodge great room, Coeur d’Alene

Crystal chandelier hung above a linear gas fireplace

Chandelier over a linear fireplace

Wine cellars

Display lighting that shows the bottles

Racking and stonework light differently than a room does. The fixtures go where the glass is, and the switching keeps it that simple.

Arched stone wine cellar entry with a lit bottle display

Arched stone entry, lit bottle display

Glass-walled wine cellar with lit display racking

Glass-walled cellar with lit racking

Baths & closets

The rooms people notice every morning

Vanity lighting, fixture placement, and rail lighting that makes a closet usable instead of just bright.

Modern bathroom with a freestanding tub, vanity lighting and a window looking out to the mountains

Vanity lighting with a mountain view

Bathroom with stone walls and pendant lights hung over a vessel sink

Pendants over a vessel sink

Large walk-in closet with lit hanging rails

Lit hanging rails in a walk-in closet

Smart home & controls

Controls the homeowner can actually run

Lutron dimming and smart home control, set up and labeled so the house makes sense to the people living in it. See smart home and lighting control.

Wall-mounted smart home control touchscreen installed in a finished wall

Wall-mounted smart home control

Close-up of a Lutron dimmer and switch installed on a textured wall

Lutron dimmer and switch

On the job

Rough-in, panels, and trucks on site

The finished photos start here — new construction wiring, panel and meter work, and our trucks parked where the work is. See panel upgrades and commercial electrical.

Exterior of a house under construction with two Northwest Wattage vans parked out front during electrical rough-in

New construction rough-in

Northwest Wattage electrician in hi-vis installing a meter and panel pedestal in the snow

Meter and panel pedestal, winter install

Two branded white Northwest Wattage service trucks parked at a job site in the pines near Coeur d'Alene

Service trucks on site

What customers say

Rated 5.0 on Google

The work above is the half you can see. Here is what the homeowners said about the rest of it.

Rated 5 out of 5.

“Northwest Wattage helped bring my home up to code prior to selling and did a fantastic job adding electrical/ lighting to our home garage! No BS, fair pricing and good communication.”

Holly Smith Google

Rated 5 out of 5.

“Before & After: From a 1970s electrical panel to a modern, code-compliant system. Professional installation, permits handled, on time, on budget, and a clean job site.”

Shari Rose Google

Rated 5 out of 5.

“These guys do it right!... Steered me in the right direction and saved me money. Thank you!”

Mark Marshall Google

Ready when you are

Have a project like these?

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