My nice blog 7931

Landscape lighting starts with the yard, not the catalog Where roofline lighting handles the house, landscape lighting takes care of the yard: the walk, the beds, the trees, the steps. 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 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

Sorting out the terms Three words get used in every quote and almost nobody uses them in normal life. The fascia is the vertical board along the roof edge, the one the gutter hangs on. The soffit is the horizontal surface tucked beneath the overhang. The eave is the part of the roof that hangs out past the house.You will not need this vocabulary often, but it appears in every estimate, and quotes are hard to compare when you are not sure what is being described. So when the

Why the roofline and not somewhere else From the street, a house is mostly a silhouette, and the roof draws it. Nothing else on the house runs that far uninterrupted, and nothing else is backed by open air. Put light on it and the outline comes back, which is the effect people are actually after.Which is why almost every permanent lighting system starts at that line rather than anywhere else on the building. It is the most efficient piece of exterior lighting a house can ha

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: paths, garden beds, trees and stairs. The goal is to see the tree, not the light pointed at it. Done badly, you get a line of glowing dots along the path and not much else. 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

Event lighting is a different product entirely The distinction matters: one is installed, the other is set up. Weddings, parties, celebrations: set up for the date and removed after. That changes the whole approach, because there is no version of this you fix next weekend.Which changes how the whole thing has to be handled. An installation has time to be adjusted. An event is judged once, in one evening. Everything gets settled before the week of, because there is no room t