Landscape Lighting Install, What Gets Lit and Why|Thinking About Landscape Lighting

Start with what you want to see

Landscape lighting lights the yard rather than the building: walkways, beds, trees, steps, driveways, the path from the car to the door. Done well, you notice the yard and not the fixtures. Done badly, you get a line of glowing dots along the path and not much else.

What usually gets lit

Most plans start with the walk, because that is the part you use whether or not anybody is looking. A well placed uplight gives the yard depth after sunset. Beds, steps, retaining walls and the driveway round it out, and the step lighting is safety more than looks.

Landscape, patio and security lighting overlap

Homeowners rarely want one category. Patio lighting makes the back of the house usable after dinner. Security lighting handles the parts of the property nobody can see from the street. Accent lighting highlights the parts of the house or yard worth a second look.

What to avoid

The most common mistake is too much of it. Even light everywhere kills the contrast that makes it look good. The second mistake is glare, 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.

The commercial side

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 is about the first impression of the whole community, which is why entrances get lit carefully.

Landscape lighting and roofline lighting in one plan

Roofline lighting works on the house. The yard is a separate job. Most properties want both. The house reads as a shape; https://collinxcaq169.capitaljays.com/posts/custom-lighting-design-the-difference-you-pay-for-is-your-lighting-quote-actually-a-design-why-custom-design-matters-in-outdoor-lighting-more-than-the-hardware-does the yard reads as space. Either one alone leaves half the property flat.A single design avoids a mismatched result, which is the usual problem when a second company adds to a first company's work. 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. Fixtures get bumped by mowers, plantings grow up in front of them, and aiming drifts. Once a year it is worth walking the yard and correcting the aim, which is a short job with a visible result.

Where to go from here

The plan comes from walking the property, not chosen off a menu. EverCrest Lighting installs landscape lighting along with patio, accent, security and permanent roofline lighting for homes and businesses. They are based in Greenville, South Carolina and serve 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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