Coastalmoods Electric
Company Overview
Coastalmoods Electric - Our expertise lies in converting to LED lighting, designing and installing lighting, troubleshooting electrical issues, panel upgrades, designing and installing solar power systems, landscape lighting, and more. For extensive construction projects or renovations, we deliver cost assessments and consultations. Get in touch with us today for more information!
Coastalmoods Electric has been supporting the Orange County and Los Angeles County areas for 32+ years.
We have built various eateries you dine at, the public schools your children attend, the library where you research and university buildings. Our focus is on detached homes, condominiums, apartment buildings, and commercial buildings.
Our Recent Projects:
* Lighting for the Newport Beach lifeguard station
* Ruby's Pier Restaurant
* Tortilla Flats restaurant
* Laguna Beach's White House
* San Juan Capistrano youth center
We provide:
Electrical services ranging from large-scale commercial projects to residential electrical needs. Interested in converting to LED lighting? Want to replace your ceiling fan or want to have a chandelier installed? We manage troubleshooting, panel enhancements, recessed lighting installations or modifications, installing new outlets, dimmers, as well as switches. Entire new construction projects, air conditioner circuits, electric car charger installations. Solar power, telecommunication services, networking, television, audio, surveillance, outdoor.
Ernie is an Electrical Contractor and possesses a C-10 license with a lineage of six generations in the construction industry. His love for lighting started in 1977 when he took a job at his uncle's lighting shop during high school repairing lamps and installing lighting fixtures.
He has been a licensed electrician in California since 1984. LICENSE #485439.
Business Services
- Electric inspection
- Electric installation or replacement
- Electric panel installation
- Electric panel repair
- Electric repair
- Wire installation
- Wire repair
- Electric vehicle charging station installation
- Generator installation
- Generator repair
- Light fixture installation
- Light fixture repair
- Outlet installation
- Outlet repair
- Security monitoring services
- Security system installation
- Security system repair
Business Location & Hours
Mon: | 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
Tue: | 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
Wed: | 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
Thu: | 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
Fri: | 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
Sat: | Closed |
Sun: | Closed |
Recommended Customer Reviews

Made arrangements to have three light fixtures installed. Their technician Dyson showed up right at the specified time and was the most pleasant and courteous service tech that we have ever dealt with. Did the job with great care and thoughtfulness under Covid Times. He did a great job and made sure all mess was cleaned up when finished. Good customer service was great to find. Highly recommend giving them a call. Frank C. Laguna Woods

My husband and I bought a chandelier at The lighting Gallery. The owner Ernie Varkel told me he could easily convert it from indoor to outdoor. Ernie was late for our installation app't by two hours. This was after waiting through the original 4 hour window. When I called to ask about my app't. He was extremely rude. He finally showed up but did not have the dimmer we'd requested. We had to wait over a week to get him back out. Once he finally completed the work and charged us over $375 on top of the $400 lamp it lasted less than a week when it stopped working. Ernie would not return our phone calls so we had to drive to the store to track him down. He was there and said he'd be out to fix it. Never heard from him again and no returned calls. We had to pay another electrician to fix the transformer and he stated it was not installed properly and hadn't been sealed. I highly recommend you visit Lamps Plus where the staff are highly trained, polite and care. I will never do business with Coastal Moods Lighting and Electric again. Ernie Varkle works out of The Lighting Gallery just off the Row. I'll never step foot in there again either.

The guys were on time, very professional and did an incredible job in hanging a large 3 tier chandelier! They had excellent problem solving skills and patience in a challenging install!! I would highly recommend this company to my family and friends!!!! You will be 100% satisfied with them!!!

I haven't been in this store for 7 years but I did buy a great little wall lamp back then. Good customer service with a nice selection of all types of lighting.

Be very careful of this company. They did a commercial job with Edison rebates for my company. The work was good. We paid the invoice balance in full less the rebates that they presented. Later I found out through there sales rep and the owner that they filed our Edison rebates at the last minute and they had a problem with Edison's web site. Very sorry they did not do there paperwork timely and if Edison did have a problem with there website that prevented them from filing on time they should have been able to work this out.
Now since then we have been hassled by email and phone for there incompetence for approx 2 years. FIND A COMPANY THAT KNOWS HOW TO WORK WITH EDISON REBATES. NOT WORTH THE EXPERIANCE WE RECIEVED FROM THIS COMPANY. ""Beware""

Awesome job. Installation crew pays attention to details, resulting into a quality work.

Thank guys for the amazing job you accomplished inside our French bakery in San Juan Capistrano

Coastal Moods installed three chandeliers (19 foot high ceiling). This was not an easy installation, but was completed with ease. Ernie and his crew were very friendly and professional making every effort to satisfy expectations..They also installed a simple powder room fixture.
Unfortunately, the original price quoted on the telephone was not the same as the final invoice.

They started strong but had a tough time finishing the job. Mostly due to change orders.

My walls are plywood instead of drywall and Ari the electrician had a super great ""can do"" attitude. He made some very helpful recommendations for my kitchen remodel and charged a fair price. I plan to have them back for a couple more small projects.