Basic questions about landscape lighting

Landscape lighting questions
There’s nothing like coming home after dark to a house that’s lit up over its whole grounds by landscape lighting, make it a friendly little island of illumination in the night. Also, it helps your teenage learning-to-drive son or daughter figure out where the driveway is. If you have the kind of yard or garden that’s worth showing off, it’s also worth a little landscape lighting.

There are a number of questions you’ll want to consider when planning your landscape lighting. These include:
• How much landscape are we talking about lighting?
• Do you want to illuminate a path through a large, well-landscaped yard?
• Is there one specific place in the yard that you really want to stand out at night, or would you rather have a gentle ambient glow over the whole area?
• Are you worried about attracting moths too close to your house?

Landscape lighting tips
Once you have a good idea of what you want and what you’re trying to avoid, you can start planning your landscape lighting. One of the key goals here is to make the most efficient and effective use of light. The goal isn’t to light up the sky or the whole neighborhood, or to have light shining into your rooms or (especially) into other people’s eyes. Glare, the bane of drivers at night, is no better in your yard — it reduces the visibility of everything other than the light source itself. The goal is to put just enough light in just the right places. Landscape lighting experts can tell you the right wattage and help you aim the lights for just the right effect.

For practical purposes, the best places to light are generally entrances, driveways, paths and steps. After this comes outdoor features that might be used at night, such as a deck or gazebo. But all sorts of visually captivating things can be done with landscape lighting. If you aim a wide beam of light at a wall at just the right angle, for example, you can show off its texture. If you have a stone wall, or something with an equally textured surface, this can display it to good effect. Ask your lighting contractor for more advice.

Landscape lighting services in Fort Mill
Pyramid Electric Service are electrical contractors 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.