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4 Outdoor Lighting Ideas For Entertaining
With the weather warming up, it’s time to get outdoors and enjoy your yard. So many people take their yard for granted. It can be the best place to experience the excitement of Summer. The days of Summer can be too hot to entertain though, making night the perfect...
SPRINGTIME ILLUMINATIONS
Springtime will spring before you know it. It’s the golden season for outdoor living, before the formidable Houston summer heat. Time to survey the patio, ready the grill, and get ready for those laid-back evenings with family and friends. Early springtime is also peak season for outdoor lighting inspection and maintenance calls.
LIGHTING YOUR HOME: A THREE-NOTE CHORD
A lot of the value of long professional experience is in knowing how to best approach the task at hand. So it is on the artistic side of outdoor lighting. Experience teaches us how to think about the nightscape with a method.
OUTDOOR LIGHTING DESIGNERS: NOT TOO BRIGHT?
Brightness not only draws the human eye, it draws the rest of a person, too. In the darkness, we tend to go to where the illumination has drawn our vision.
LANDSCAPE LIGHTING FOR SMALLER HOMES
Turns out, a surprising number of homeowners think landscape lighting is too extravagant for their modest properties. A perk for the owners of estates, mansions, mini-mansions, and grand residences. That is to say, for people with something to show off. A little reflection, however, quickly flips this notion on its head. Landscape lighting is for smaller […]
COLOR IN LANDSCAPE LIGHTING?
The First Law of Residential Landscape Lighting is “less is more”. A design achieves the greatest drama and beauty with as little lighting as possible. How little is “as little as possible”? Generally, just enough to meet safety, security, and functionality needs. An artistically illuminated outdoor kitchen, for example, can’t be too dark to cook […]
DIY OR PROFESSIONAL?
A quick search of the internet turns up a lot of content on do-it-yourself (DIY) outdoor and landscape lighting. As a matter of fact, there are literally thousands of articles, blogs, and guides on the subject. Retailers of outdoor lighting hardware naturally promote the DIY option. The low-voltage LED revolution of the past few years […]
REPAIR OR REPLACE?
New clients are not always starting from a scratch. Quite a few explain they’ve got outdoor lighting systems already in place. They’re not satisfied with the performance of the system, or perhaps with its general condition. Long-time owners of a property realize one day that the place just doesn’t look as great at night as […]
THE WIRE
The goals of outdoor and landscape lighting are to make a property look amazing at night. This is the artistic side of the profession. On the technical side, the proper choices in hardware and configuration must support the designer’s art. This is where hardware priorities come in. Since the components all depend on each other, […]