Outdoor Landscape Lighting Installation, A Practical Guide for Homeowners|Planning a Landscape Lighting Installation and What It Should Cost You in Effort

What landscape lighting is for

Where roofline lighting handles the house, landscape lighting handles everything below it: paths, garden beds, trees and stairs. 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 goes in a typical plan

Most plans start with the path to the door, which is the piece that earns its cost every single evening. A well placed uplight keeps the yard from going flat and black at nine at night. Beds, steps, walls and the drive fill in the rest, and some of that is safety more than style.

Landscape, patio and security lighting are related jobs

The request is rarely just one type of lighting. Patio lighting is what turns a patio into somewhere you sit in the evening. Security lighting deals with the corners of the lot, which is a different job from making a tree look good. Accent lighting handles the detail.

Where landscape lighting goes wrong

More light is not better. Even light across the whole yard removes the shadow that gives a yard shape. The second mistake is glare, so every guest gets a light in the eye on the way to the door. The third is forgetting that plants https://evercrestlighting.com/about/ grow, when the shrub in front of the uplight has doubled.

The commercial side

On commercial property the brief changes. Outdoor seating lives or dies on the lighting. Parking and walkways are a footing and visibility question. 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 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 is easier than doing them a year apart. If the budget has to be split, a good designer will tell you which half to do first, and the answer is not always the house.Landscape lighting is not entirely hands off. Fixtures shift over time, plantings grow up in front of them, and aiming drifts. Once a year it is worth walking the yard and correcting the aim, which takes very little time and makes an obvious difference.

Where to go from here

A landscape lighting installation is worth planning on site, preferably with somebody who has seen it after dark. 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. Consultations are free, and the design gets built around your yard. Reach them at (864) 252-1732 or [email protected].

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