Landscape Lighting
If you have ever been a nightclub or theater during the day it would surprise you. The image of the previous night’s performance, with the special-effects lighting, would be lost as cleaning crews moved about the flat-black ceilings and cluttered piping on suspended catwalks. It is an illusion, as is a Hollywood movie set.
Landscaping can also be treated in the same way. Because even the most modest of yards can look like a dreamland if the proper lighting is considered. Plain bushes and trees can come to life with colored lighting shining through the branches or up the trunks. it just takes some planning and imagination.
Until just a couple of years ago lighting was expensive. Even putting out Christmas lights for three weeks upped the power bill by up to 25% of the year’s budget. Therefore, having outdoor lighting, even for a short time, was an added strain on the light bill. Now, low voltage systems make consistent night lighting and affordable practice.
LED (light emitting diode) fixtures are beginning to revolutionize lighting in that they use up to 75% less power than the equal candle power of incandescent and halogen lighting. In addition, these lights last 40,000 hours or 20 years worth of lighting and are powered by DC current from an adapter so the danger of electrocution is non-existent.
Solar landscaping lights are also becoming popular because, for good reason, there is no power outlay. Right now they are somewhat limited in what is available but in a few years most of the outdoor lighting will be solar.
To place lighting there are many options. Putting the fixtures at the bottoms of tree trunks is popular as is shining them up the walls of the home. However there are lights that illuminate paths to like step light and path lights that are made to fit in brick walls. Intermittent LEDs shining on walls or shrubs mimic fireflies or fairies.
Water feature lights are also becoming popular. Completely submersible these lights produce a glow from under running streams, in fountains and shining on pools. In addition to lighting up the bottoms of ponds they can come in the shapes of fish.
Creative lighting is now in the hands of everyont. Your imagination is the only limit.
Landscaping can also be treated in the same way. Because even the most modest of yards can look like a dreamland if the proper lighting is considered. Plain bushes and trees can come to life with colored lighting shining through the branches or up the trunks. it just takes some planning and imagination.
Until just a couple of years ago lighting was expensive. Even putting out Christmas lights for three weeks upped the power bill by up to 25% of the year’s budget. Therefore, having outdoor lighting, even for a short time, was an added strain on the light bill. Now, low voltage systems make consistent night lighting and affordable practice.
LED (light emitting diode) fixtures are beginning to revolutionize lighting in that they use up to 75% less power than the equal candle power of incandescent and halogen lighting. In addition, these lights last 40,000 hours or 20 years worth of lighting and are powered by DC current from an adapter so the danger of electrocution is non-existent.
Solar landscaping lights are also becoming popular because, for good reason, there is no power outlay. Right now they are somewhat limited in what is available but in a few years most of the outdoor lighting will be solar.
To place lighting there are many options. Putting the fixtures at the bottoms of tree trunks is popular as is shining them up the walls of the home. However there are lights that illuminate paths to like step light and path lights that are made to fit in brick walls. Intermittent LEDs shining on walls or shrubs mimic fireflies or fairies.
Water feature lights are also becoming popular. Completely submersible these lights produce a glow from under running streams, in fountains and shining on pools. In addition to lighting up the bottoms of ponds they can come in the shapes of fish.
Creative lighting is now in the hands of everyont. Your imagination is the only limit.
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