Outdoor lighting covers more than one job
"Outdoor lighting" covers a lot of ground. For some it is the roof edge, for others the walkway and the trees, and for plenty of people it is the dark part of the property they never fixed. They are different problems, and they get solved differently.
Roofline and architectural lighting
Permanent outdoor lighting puts an LED channel along the roof edge, color matched so it disappears in daylight, and controlled from a phone app. That covers holiday color in December and everyday warm white the rest of the year.
Lighting the yard
Below the roofline, landscape lighting does the walk, the beds and the trees. Patio lighting is what gets the patio used after dark. Security lighting is for the corners, which is a separate job from the curb appeal work. Accent lighting picks out the details.
Choosing between the options
If the complaint is "our house disappears at night", start at the roofline. If the complaint is about the path to the door, start with landscape lighting. If the complaint is "December is a whole weekend of work", permanent lighting is the answer. Most properties end up with two of the three.
The commercial side
Businesses use the same lighting for different reasons. Facade and storefront lighting is about being seen from the road. Patio lighting
https://telegra.ph/Commercial-Outdoor-Lighting-What-the-Building-Is-Doing-After-ClosingWhat-Commercial-Outdoor-Lighting-Is-Really-For-After-the-Sun-09-10 is what makes outdoor seating work at night. Parking and walkway lighting is a safety matter, and the entrance is the first thing anybody sees.
What the first visit involves
The first visit is a walkthrough, not a sales presentation. Expect to be asked how you use the yard and the front of the house after dark. The way you use the property is the thing the plan gets built around.You should come out of it able to explain the plan to somebody else. If you cannot, the design was not explained well enough.A few details get you a more useful first conversation. The house height, the shape of the roof, the driveway, and what is growing in the yard. None of it has to be exact. It just gets the conversation to something useful faster.
Doing it properly
The simplest version of this is one company looking at the whole property, so the roofline and the walkway are not fighting each other. EverCrest Lighting is an outdoor lighting company in Greenville, South Carolina handling permanent LED lighting, holiday and Christmas lighting, landscape lighting, patio lighting, accent lighting and security lighting, residential and commercial. Service runs across Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina, from Greenville out through Greer, Easley, Simpsonville, Spartanburg, Anderson and Clemson. The consultation is free. Reach them at (864) 252-1732 or
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