Landscape Lighting Installation: What a Good Plan Looks Like|Planning a Landscape Lighting Installation

Landscape lighting is a design problem before it is a shopping problem

Where roofline lighting handles the house, landscape lighting takes care of the yard: the walk, the beds, the trees, the steps. The goal is light you see the effect of, not fixtures you count. Done badly, you get a line of glowing dots along the path and not much else.

What goes in a typical 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 drive round it out, and some of that is safety more than style.

Landscape, patio and security lighting overlap

Homeowners usually want more than one thing. Patio lighting is what turns a patio into somewhere you sit in the evening. Security lighting lights the places that stay dark, which is a different goal from the pretty work. Accent lighting highlights the parts of the house or yard worth a second look.

Where landscape lighting goes wrong

The most common mistake is volume. A yard lit evenly at every point has no depth, and flat is the one thing you were trying to avoid. The second mistake is glare, so the path lights blind you instead of showing the https://blogfreely.net/teigetnhoj/h1-b-custom-exterior-lighting-design-the-difference-you-pay-for-is-your path. The third is forgetting that plants grow, when the shrub in front of the uplight has doubled.

Commercial landscape lighting

Businesses light the grounds for other reasons. Outdoor seating lives or dies on the lighting. A parking area is about people getting to their cars. A neighborhood entrance sets the tone for everything behind it, which is why entrances get lit carefully.

Landscape lighting and roofline lighting together

The two do different jobs and look better together. Roofline light outlines the building, and landscape light gives the ground in front of it depth.A single design keeps the brightness and the color consistent, which is the usual problem when a second company adds to a first company's work. 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, yard lighting moves. Mowers, mulch and seasons nudge fixtures out of position. Once a year it is worth walking the yard and correcting the aim, which is a short job with a visible result.

How to start

A landscape lighting installation should be designed at the property, at night if you can. EverCrest Lighting does landscape lighting installation along with patio, accent, security and permanent roofline lighting for residential and commercial properties. Working out of Greenville, South Carolina, they cover Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina. Consultations are free, and the design gets built around your yard. Call (864) 252-1732 or email [email protected].

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