Professional Landscape Lighting Installation, How to Plan It Before You Buy It|Planning a Landscape Lighting Installation: Start With the Yard You Have

Landscape lighting starts with the yard, not the catalog

Where roofline lighting handles the house, landscape lighting takes care of the yard: paths, https://hectorxrze841.publishlane.com/posts/lighting-for-events-and-parties-what-temporary-displays-involve-planning-event-lighting-here-is-the-process-outdoor-party-lighting-that-works-without-last-minute-panic garden beds, trees and stairs. The goal is to see the tree, not the light pointed at it. Done badly, it looks like an airport runway down the driveway.

The pieces of a plan

Path lighting is usually the starting point, since walking to the door in the dark is the daily problem. Uplighting on a good tree does more for a yard at night than almost anything else. Beds, stairs, retaining walls and the drive fill in the rest, and some of that is safety more than style.

Landscape, patio and security lighting overlap

The request almost never stays in one lane. Out back, patio lighting is the difference between a patio you use and one you look at. Security lighting covers the dark corners, the side yard, the area behind the garage. Accent lighting picks out the details worth picking out.

Where landscape lighting usually goes wrong

More light is not better. A yard lit evenly at every point has no depth, which is exactly the look people are trying to get away from. The second mistake is aiming fixtures where people walk, so every guest gets a light in the eye on the way to the door. The third is ignoring how the yard will look in five years, since the bed in front of a fixture fills in.

Commercial landscape lighting

Businesses light the grounds for other reasons. Outdoor seating lives or dies on the lighting. Parking and walkways are a footing and visibility question. A neighborhood entrance sets the tone for everything behind it, which is why entrances get lit carefully.

Combining the two

The two do different jobs and look better together. The house reads as a shape; the ground has layers. One without the other looks unfinished.A single design keeps the brightness and the color consistent, which is what happens when two companies work the same property in different years. If the budget has to be split, ask which half does more for your property, and the answer is not always the house.Landscape lighting needs a look now and then. Fixtures shift over time, plantings grow up in front of them, and the aim wanders. An annual look and re aim keeps it looking the way it was designed.

Getting it planned properly

The plan should be made standing in the yard, not picked from a page. EverCrest Lighting installs landscape lighting along with patio, accent, security and permanent roofline lighting for homes and businesses. Working out of Greenville, South Carolina, they cover Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina. The consultation is free and the design is drawn for your property. Call (864) 252-1732 or email [email protected].

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