Professional Landscape Lighting Installation: Where the Light Should Go|Thinking About Landscape Lighting

What landscape lighting is for

Landscape lighting puts light on the ground level of a property: paths, plantings, trees, steps and the walk up to the front door. 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 usually gets lit

Path lighting comes first for most properties, since walking to the door in the dark is the daily problem. A light aimed up into a tree keeps the yard from going flat and black at nine at night. Then there are beds and low plantings, steps and retaining walls where the light is really about not tripping, and the parking area.

Landscape, patio and security lighting overlap

Homeowners rarely want one category. Patio lighting makes the back of the house usable after dinner. Security lighting deals with the corners of the lot, which is a different job from making a tree look good. Accent lighting picks out the details worth picking out.

What to avoid

More light does not mean better. Even light across the whole yard removes the shadow that gives a yard shape. The second mistake is aiming fixtures where people walk, so the path lights blind you instead of showing the path. The third is ignoring how the yard will look in five years, when the shrub in front of the uplight has doubled.

Businesses and communities

On commercial property the brief changes. A restaurant patio needs light people want to sit under. Parking and walkways come down to safety. A neighborhood entrance sets the tone for everything behind it, which is why entrances get lit carefully.

Landscape lighting and roofline lighting in one plan

Roofline lighting handles the building. The yard is a separate job. Most properties want both. The house reads as a shape; the ground has layers. Either one alone leaves half the property flat.Doing them at the same time beats adding one to the other later. If the budget has to be split, a good designer will tell you which half to do first, and it is not always the roofline.Landscape lighting needs a look now and then. Mowers, mulch and seasons all move things slightly. An annual look and re aim keeps the plan looking like https://landenqfvj325.almoheet-travel.com/christmas-lights-that-stay-up-year-round-why-the-ladder-can-stay-in-the-garage the plan.

Where to go from here

The plan comes from walking the property, not chosen off a menu. EverCrest Lighting does landscape lighting installation as well as patio, accent, security and permanent LED roofline lighting for homes and businesses. 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. Reach them at (864) 252-1732 or [email protected].

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