Landscape lighting- and the correct usage

Landscape lighting should be used not to light up your whole yard, but to illuminate the most-used parts and make them both safer and more attractive. Paths to and from your house should be clearly lit, of course. Another part of your yard you should light up — especially in the summer, a time of outdoor parties and get-togethers when the evenings are likely to be more comfortable than the afternoons — is your outdoor deck. There are electriciansin the Fort Mill, SC area who can show you how to light this feature to best effect.

Lighting to show off your deck

The key with this sort of lighting is to make a little light go a long way. The light should in no place be bright enough to ruin your night vision, but you should be able to see what you are eating and drinking, as well as the faces of the people you are talking with. Your landscape lighting contractor will know how to set up your lights in such a way that as little light as possible will be wasted by radiating it directly into the sky.In order to achieve this, many decks have lights built into the posts, risers or handrail that point straight down, illuminating the floor of the deck and making its edges stand out clearly against the darkness.

If your deck includes tall enough structures, you can run string lights in the air over the deck. This will provide a nice, even illumination over your deck and furniture, with no glare anywhere but everything clearly visible after dark — exactly what you want from deck lighting. This is a very popular lighting design approach, but you will want to have the work done by an expert in landscape lighting, so as to be sure the work will be waterproof and weatherproof.

A particularly useful safety feature is recessed lights built into the steps. These can be quite small, because their purpose is not so much to illuminate the deck as to show exactly where the steps are. Think of them like the reflectors in the middle of a road. They also add a touch of glamour.

Landscape lighting and other lighting design services in Fort Mill, SC

Pyramid Electric Service are, among much else, landscape lighting licensed in North and South Carolina and serving the greater Charlotte area, including Charlotte, Rock Hill, Fort Mill, Indian Land, Marvin, Weddington, Matthews and Waxhaw. We offer a range of interior and exterior lighting services. Expertise.com rated us one of the top 25 electrical contractors in the Charlotte area. Call the electricians you can trust. We have been serving York, Lancaster, Mecklenburg and Union Counties since 1963.