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Residential Outdoor Lighting
As a homeowner you are most likely busy away from home during the day. As a consequence, the primary hours you are able to enjoy your home is in the evenings and on weekends.
One way to maximize the enjoyment of your hours at home is to transform the dark areas of your property into a light fantasy with outdoor lighting, allowing the beauty of your garden to show. With the right design, landscape lighting can add ambiance to your landscape by painting beauty on your landscape, pathways, pools, and fountains.
A well placed landscape design should add beauty and safety as well, by lighting pathways and any hazardous areas.
Considerations for outdoor lighting is the shape, size, type and wattage of the lights, mounting them to protect your trees and plants and promote further growth, and concealment of any wiring and junction boxes.
What you can expect from your outdoor lighting designer:
- A meeting to discuss the master plan for your property.
- A site plan is then developed illustrating your structures, flower beds, trees, and any electrical requirements you may have.
- Your designer will then draw up a formal plan, showing the placement of your lighting fixtures.
- A proposal will be presented for your approval, broken down into phases of the design.
- The landscape lighting installation then commences.
Commercial Outdoor Lighting – More than Utility
The standard reason for commercial outdoor lighting is to strategically place lighting for the safety of the occupants of your building when they are leaving the premises after dark.
While the main purpose of commercial outdoor lighting is for illumination, commercial outdoor light fixtures can be functional and decorative at the same time. This is achieved through strategic placement of suitable commercial outdoor light around the premises of your commercial structure.
For example, you could try placing the lighting on the ground and direct it upwards to illuminate the building and surrounding areas. Trees and statues can be illuminated in a similar way, which creates more aesthetic appeal while serving the primary safety purposes. You can include all of these features in your design.
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Whether you are going to install residential or commercial outdoor lighting, with the proper design and installation the results should add an enormous amount of ambiance to your property you can enjoy.
If you are considering any kind of landscape improvement, and you are in the Sarasota or surrounding area, please visit us at:
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