Landscape Lighting
Outdoor Lighting Information Outdoor Lighting Information
If you have invested your energy in creating lovely outdoor spaces such as gardens, arbors, patios or fountains, then you certainly do not want to make the mistake of leaving the job half-done. While many people design exterior spaces or landscape under the assumption of full sunlight, specialty outdoor lighting can add an entirely new dimension to your work. Imagine lustrous gardens that flourish magically beneath the moonlight, ancient trees that glow luridly as you pass them in your midnight stroll, or fountains that bubble with luminous crystalline water, spraying starry droplets into the sky. These are a few fanciful images that can be made into a reality by an artfully designed outdoor lighting system.
If you are looking at a small to medium sized job, or are a novice and want to create a lighting system that you can install yourself, we have a number of low voltage outdoor lighting fixtures available. Our Halogen Accent outdoor lighting kits are designed to illuminate specimen trees, plants in the garden or architectural details of a home or office building. We also have low voltage outdoor lighting kits fitted with incandescent bulbs for projects that require a warm light. For larger jobs, we More >
Residential Landscape Lighting – Lighting Up Your Yard
Residential Landscape Lighting – Lighting Up Your Yard by Albert Lee
Lighting up your lawn is not just as simple as it looks. Well, if your objective is to flood the whole yard with light and just drown everything in one big flash, then by all means just prop a big floodlight in the middle of your lawn and just let it shine.
Of course this time, you would be able to see everything until the corners of your compound, but you wouldn’t be able to appreciate the “curves” and enhance the design of your landscaper. Your lawn would look more of a stadium or a prison because of the high intensity light that falls on every nook of your territory.
If you want to justify the love that your landscaper has dedicated to it, then you might start envisioning it to look like more of a park. Accenting areas with subdued lighting is the way.
The placement of the lights is important. Placing them on the broad side of the landscape curve will drown out the little spaces that it converges with the rest of the land design. A subdued effect is best achieved with the positioning of light behind a More >
