Outdoor Landscape Lighting Installation: How to Plan It Before You Buy It|Thinking About Landscape Lighting and What It Should Cost You in Effort

Start with what you want to see

Landscape lighting lights the yard rather than the building: paths, plantings, trees, steps and the walk up to the front door. Done well, you notice the yard and not the fixtures. Done badly, it looks like an airport runway down the driveway.

The pieces of a plan

Path lighting is usually the starting point, because it is the part that does a job every night. Uplighting on a good tree changes the whole front of a property after dark. Beds, steps, retaining walls and the driveway fill in the rest, and some of that is safety more than style.

The other outdoor lighting people ask about

Homeowners rarely want one category. Out back, the patio only gets used after dark if it has light. Security lighting lights the places that stay dark, which is a different job from making a tree look good. Accent lighting highlights the parts of the house or yard worth a second look.

Where landscape lighting usually goes wrong

The most common mistake is too much of it. Even light across the whole yard kills the contrast that makes it look good. Badly aimed fixtures put light in your guests' eyes rather than onto the surface. The third is forgetting that plants grow, since the bed in front of a fixture fills in.

Commercial grounds lighting

Businesses use the same tools for different reasons. A restaurant patio needs light people want to sit under. A parking area is about people getting to their cars. A neighborhood entrance is about the https://evercrestlighting.com/ first impression of the whole community, which is why entry lighting gets attention in planned developments.

Combining the two

The two solve different problems, and most properties want both. The house has an outline; the yard reads as space. Either one alone leaves half the property flat.Doing them in one plan beats adding one to the other later. If the budget has to be split, ask which half does more for your property, and the answer is not always the house.Unlike a roofline system, ground level fixtures shift. Fixtures get bumped by mowers, beds fill in around them, and aiming drifts. An annual adjustment keeps the plan looking like the plan.

Getting it installed properly

The plan should be made standing in the yard, not picked from a page. EverCrest Lighting does landscape lighting installation along with patio, accent, security and permanent roofline lighting for residential and commercial properties. They are based in Greenville, South Carolina and serve Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina. The consultation is free and the design is drawn for your property. Reach them at (864) 252-1732 or [email protected].

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