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What is Low Voltage Landscape Lighting?

Low Voltage Landscape Lighting is breathtaking in its beauty and provides a safe, secure and welcoming environment. Unlike the glaring high voltage lighting of the past, low voltage lighting provides the opportunity for a skilled contractor to create a work of art. With the proper fixtures and tools, such a craftsman can enhance the beauty and value of your home.

Why Install Low Voltage Landscape Lighting?

• Security — High voltage floodlights leave dark shadows and unseen areas around a property. A better choice is strategically placed low voltage lights that provide low levels of even illumination.
• Safety — Low voltage lighting is the ideal choice for illuminating walkways and entranceways. This ensures that residents and visitors can safely navigate around the property.
• Usability — Illuminating the private areas of a property allows the evening enjoyment of decks, sitting areas, and recreational spaces.
• Beauty — Low voltage lighting accentuates the shapes and textures of a landscape and its structures. Lighting designers not only paint pictures with light, they create dramatic scenes that give the viewer a dynamic experience of the property.
• Economy — Low voltage lighting consumes about 1/3 the electricity compared to high voltage and is far less expensive to install.

Why Light Both Home and Property?

• Cohesion. Clearly, the house is the central feature of the landscape. Other features include plant materials, driveways, pathways, decks, lawns, etc. A good design ties these disparate elements together with skillful illumination establishing a cohesive impression and experience.
• Depth. This principle suffers greatly when only the house is lit – as darkness falls, the landscape retreats from view and the home appears as an island in a sea of blackness. The viewers experience is flattened as the gaze starts and ends on the surface of the structure. Instead of giving the impression of a rich three-dimensional world, there is only a two-dimensional poverty of experience.
• Focal Points. A good lighting designer recognizes that the human visual experience is dynamic. As we gaze upon the world, our eyes rest on first one object, then another, tracing a path defined by what draws our attention. In the case of front yard lighting, we want the final destination of the visual path to be the house, so we carefully plan the design to establish focal points in the landscape that lead to the entrance of the home.

• Quality and Direction. Many designers don’t light the home because it is already lit. There may be an entrance lantern or down-lights under the portico. The quality of such lighting in most cases is glaring and uncontrolled in both direction and intensity – inconsistent with, and distracting from the low voltage lighting in the landscape. The only other lighting is the light coming from windows. This light does not highlight architectural features and is dependent on the homeowners turning on indoor lights. A better approach is the skilled application of architectural lighting from the designer

Our Services:

• Lighting Design – We work closely with our clients to achieve lighting effects that will enhance a property’s surroundings. Outdoor lighting should be both pleasing to the eye and functional. Our experts are there to meet all aspects of a well designed landscape lighting plan.
• Professional Installation – Our team is comprised of highly trained individuals with years of experience in outdoor landscape lighting design and installation. From start to finish we take meticulous care when it comes to our client’s property and surroundings.
• Top of the Line Fixtures and Materials – We are pleased to offer the industry's most technologically superior and extensive collection of products to meet all of your architectural and landscape lighting goals.
• Maintenance Plans: Our comprehensive support services and available annual maintenance plans allow you to enjoy your lighting enhancements year after year without any worries.

Some of the many techniques we use:

• Architectural lighting is used to accentuate diverse textures and features common to stone and brick work. Architectural lighting also applies to fountains, statues or arbors amongst others.
• Silhouetting and backlighting is the use of background lighting to silhouette structural features and landscape material.
• Path lighting and Area Lighting provides safety and security by illuminating walkways and driveways as well as low level areas of a landscape.
• Moon lighting and down-lighting is accomplished by mounting fixtures in tree branches. This method projects long dramatic shadows across the expanse of walkways, turf and other ground surfaces to create a moonlight effect.
• Up-lighting involves casting light upwards to highlight features and textures.
• Underwater Lighting is used in or out of water to dramatically enhance waterfalls, fountains, spillways, and statues.

IlluminFX

In addition to Low Voltage Lighting products we are also proud to offer IlluminFx Fiber Optic Lighting for Pond and water features.  There are many advantages to using Fiber optic lighting in these situations.

• Safety -  No heat, UV or electricity travels through the fibers make it Koi friendly.
• Small Fixtures -  Being only about ½” in diameter, they are easily placed and hidden anywhere in or out of water features.
• Hassle Free  -  One light bulb placed in an easily accessible location illuminates up to 16 light fixtures.  There’s no more a need to enter the water to change a light bulb.
• Color Changing Options -  Each system includes a color changing wheel allowing the user to choose a stationary color or allow the wheel to gently rotate through color changes.

From landscape lighting design, to installation, to maintenance, we take care of it all. Contact us today to start enjoying the many rewards a professionally designed, low voltage lighting system has to offer. Provide safety and security for your family, friends and customers, while adding value and beauty to your property.

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