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Landscape
Lighting
Double Your Enjoyment With Landscape Lighting
Too often homeowners miss receiving the full enjoyment
of their landscaping after dark. Just because the sun
has gone down is no reason to end the pleasantness of a
cool evening breeze and the beauty you have worked to
create with your landscaping efforts.
Landscape lighting can help you get the most out of the
investment you have made in your yard. In fact, with as
busy as many homeowners are during the day, this may be
the only chance they get to enjoy their landscape
investment other than on weekends. Outdoor landscape
lighting transforms darkened grounds into a welcome
fantasyland of light, shadow and color.
Rather than a bright blinding spotlight affect,
landscapes emerge under subtle lighting to create
wonderful shapes and colors with a soothing and
romantic ambiance.
Whether glowing from within or
outlined against the night sky, landscape lighting can
paint the beauty of natural and cultivated forms, water
features and pathways with subtle shades of shadow and
light. Underwater landscape lighting fixtures provide
an understated reflective lighting effect in pools,
fountains and around the perimeter of ponds
Not only will the homeowner find their lifestyle
enhanced by the outdoor living space they have created
but visitors will appreciate not only the beauty but the
added safety when walkways and hazards are thoughtfully
lit to create a welcoming atmosphere.
But to achieve this beauty, created at the flick of a
switch or timer, it takes more than a few spot lights in
trees. You will need to spend some time experimenting
with portable lights and finding the subtle shades that
are possible.
Landscape lighting can certainly be added after the
fact, but it is best if planned along with the landscape
itself. Most systems are low voltage and will require a
transformer that can be plugged into a regular
electrical receptacle so you will also want to plan on
having a power source available.
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