Patio and Outdoor Living Lighting: Lighting the Space You Actually Sit In|How Should a Patio Be Lit? Start With How You Use It|Outdoor Living Lighting Done Properly
Why the patio plan is its own thing Front yard lighting is for people looking at the house. Out back you are inside the lighting, not looking at it. Everything changes when you become the audience from within. Nobody is grading the back yard from the street. The only test is whether anybody wants to sit there.All of which is a long way of saying the back yard is its own project. A roofline system handles the street view and almost nothing for where you sit. Two spaces, two
Permanent Outdoor Lighting, What to Ask Before You Install It|Considering Permanent Outdoor Lighting? Here Is How It Works
What permanent outdoor lighting means Permanent outdoor lighting is an LED system mounted along a building's rooflines, eaves and edges and left up all year. It replaces seasonal light strands with hardware meant to stay outside. Because the track is color matched, daylight hides most of it. Where it gets installed on a house The main roofline is the anchor, then gables, dormers, columns and porch edges follow. Businesses use it the same way, around storefronts and entranc
Christmas Light Takedown and Off Season Storage: What Happens in January|What Happens to Holiday Lights in January? Here Is How It Should Work|January, and the Part of Holiday Lighting Nobody Plans For Explained
What gets left out of the conversation Holiday lighting conversations happen in October and November and stop at the install date. Which makes sense, because that is the part you are excited about. Then it is January, and something has to happen. The people who asked the question up front are the ones not on a ladder in the cold.And that is unfortunate, because the second half is the one that costs you if it is not covered. Anybody can hang lights in November. The real ques