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What the word actually means The difference between accent lighting and general lighting is intent. It is selective by definition. One feature, chosen on purpose, with the surroundings left dark. The dark part is not a gap in the plan. It is the other half of the effect.That is really the whole idea, and it is not complicated. Choose a small number of things and let the rest of the property stay dark. The pull is always toward adding, and holding it is the entire skill. Go

Is there a difference between architectural lighting and holiday lights? The word sounds like marketing, but it points at something real. The difference is between drawing around a house and lighting its parts. One treats the house as a silhouette. The other treats it as a set of surfaces, angles and depths.None of that means you need to know the terms. It does mean asking one question: does the plan have reasons in it. If the answer describes your building, you are talking

Why the term tells you nothing Custom is on every website in this trade. It costs nothing to say and it is not a claim anybody checks. The test is not the word. It is whether anything was drawn before you were asked to decide.That is the whole distinction, and it survives every sales conversation. A package is a price with a description attached. A design begins at your house. Both can be perfectly honest pieces of business. Only one of them answers to your building, and yo

The floodlight instinct The standard response to feeling exposed at night is a floodlight bolted to the corner of the house. It feels like the right answer. It mostly is not. A single harsh source carves the yard into a bright patch and a black rim, and the shadows it makes are darker than the darkness it replaced.Taken together, it points somewhere other than brightness. It is several modest sources rather than one strong one, aimed at the places that need it. It costs no

Step one is a free consultation The first step is a look at the property, not a truck in the driveway. Somebody walks the property, asks how you use the outside of your home, and works out where the light should go. The consultation is free and there is no obligation attached to it. The design comes before the price Your house has its own lines, so the plan gets drawn around it. A good design traces the lines the building already has: the main roofline, the gables, the dor

Why this keeps coming up around Greenville Around Greenville, the December rooflines have been changing, and they are not coming down afterward. What you are looking at is a fixed LED track, put up once and left up. What it does the rest of the year Holiday color is what starts the conversation. What keeps people happy with it is everything after December. Warm white on the eaves gives the front of the house shape after dark. Then there are game days, birthdays, the Fourth

The roof edge is the strongest line on the building From the street, what you actually see at night is an outline, and the roof edge draws that outline. Nothing else on the house gives you that much unbroken length, and nothing else is backed by open air. Put light on it and the outline comes back, which is the effect people are actually after.That is the reason the roofline gets the hardware, and the reason a single run there does more than fixtures scattered around the ya

The categories, sorted out "Outdoor lighting" means different things to different people. Some mean lights on the house. Others mean the yard. A few mean the dark corner behind the garage. They are related jobs with different answers. Lighting the house Permanent outdoor lighting runs a slim LED track along the roofline and eaves, matched to your trim so daylight hides it, and controlled from a phone app. One install handles the holidays and the everyday. The ground level