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The case for not doing it yourself The job looks easy from the ground, then it takes a Saturday. Add the second story, gutters you would rather not lean on, and the fact that December in the Upstate can be wet, and a lot of people decide it is worth hiring out. What you should be getting The job breaks into a few pieces, and the last two are the ones people forget to ask about. It starts with a plan: which lines get lit, what color, how it reads from the street. Then insta

The oversight People spend real money on the front of a house: paint, shutters, a new door, beds, mulch, a walkway. Every bit of it is judged in the sun. Then the sun goes down and none of it is visible. For a solid stretch of the year, the evening view is the one most people get.Put together, these are not expensive changes. What it requires is deciding to treat the night view as a real thing, which is the part almost everybody skips. The houses that stand out after dark g

Landscape lighting starts with the yard, not the catalog Landscape lighting puts light on the ground level of a property: paths, plantings, trees, steps and the walk up to the front door. The goal is light you see the effect of, not fixtures you count. Done badly, you get a line of glowing dots along the path and not much else. What usually gets lit Most plans start with the path to the door, which is the piece that earns its cost every single evening. A light aimed up int

The word is free Custom is on every website in this trade. The word has been used until it is empty. The test is not what they say. It is whether anything was drawn before the number appeared.Keep that straight through the whole process. A package is a price with a description attached. A design is a plan for your property that arrives at a price. Both are legitimate ways to sell. Only one of them answers to your building, and you deserve to know which you have. The conten

Your building is doing something at night A commercial building is visible to more people at night than most owners assume. A dark building reads as closed, and in a quieter way it reads as not there. Light keeps a building in circulation.None of this is decoration spending. A building that reads clearly at night is doing work every evening. It is one of the few exterior expenses that runs every night without further input. Storefront and facade lighting Signs work at read

Outdoor lighting covers more than one job "Outdoor lighting" covers a lot of ground. Some mean the roofline. Others mean the yard. Some mean the side yard that never gets any light. They are related jobs with different answers. The building itself Permanent outdoor lighting puts an LED channel along the roof edge, color matched so it disappears in daylight, and controlled from a phone app. That covers Christmas, game days, and every ordinary evening in between. The ground