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Before anything goes on the house Nothing gets mounted until somebody has looked at your house. Somebody comes out and looks at the roofline, talks through what you are after, and works out where the light should go. The consultation is free and there is no obligation attached to it. Why the design comes first Every house is a little different, which is why a template design usually looks off. The design should read the house, following the roof edge, the gables and the en

Curb appeal gets planned entirely for daylight The front of a home absorbs a lot of budget. Every bit of it only exists while it is light out. After dark all that work stops existing. 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 treating the evening view as something worth planning, which is the part almost everybody skips. The houses that look good at night got that way on pu

What most people install first Almost everybody reaches for the brightest thing available. It feels decisive. It usually 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.Put all of that together and the picture is not what most people install. It is several modest sources rather than one strong one, covering the approaches rather than blasting the yard. It costs about what pe

Outdoor lighting covers more than one job Ask ten Greenville homeowners what outdoor lighting means and you will get several answers. For some it is the roof edge, for others the walkway and the trees, and for some it is the corner nobody can see. They are related jobs with different answers. Roofline and architectural lighting On the building, a permanent LED system follows the roofline, is left in place year round, and changes color on demand. One install takes care of D

Two sides, two purposes Front yard lighting is seen from outside. Out back you are inside the lighting, not looking at it. Everything changes once you are the one sitting under it. Nobody cares how the patio reads from the road. The only test is whether the space gets used.All of which adds up to one point. The front and the back rarely get solved by the same fixtures, and assuming otherwise is how a patio ends up with one bright light on the wall. Two spaces, two briefs, a

Is there a difference between lighting a house and outlining one? It is a fair question what the word adds. The difference is between an outline and a plan. One treats the house as a silhouette. The other treats it as a building with peaks, recesses, columns and texture.You do not have to use these words to know what you are looking at. It does mean expecting one thing: does the plan have reasons in it. If the answer is specific to your house, you are talking to a designer.

Why Upstate homeowners keep asking about it Around Greenville, more rooflines are lit every December, and they are not coming down afterward. What you are looking at is a permanent LED system, put up once and left up. What it means for an Upstate house Christmas gets people to pick up the phone. What makes it worth the money is everything after December. Warm white on the eaves gives the front of the house shape after dark. Then there are team colors, birthdays and whateve

Why it has to be LED Anything mounted permanently on a roof edge has to survive being there. That rules out the bulbs that go in a tub in January. The case for LED is heat, power draw and durability, and all three matter when the thing never comes inside.You do not have to follow the technical side to make a good decision. It is a reason to want a specific answer about the hardware, instead of a general assurance. The people who can walk you through it are usually the ones