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Sep 30,2023

Hiring a Landscaper vs. Outdoor Lighting Designer

The beauty of your outdoor space is something to be cherished and enhanced. Whether you're looking to illuminate your garden, highlight architectural features, or create a welcoming ambiance, outdoor lighting…

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Sep 24,2023

What is Smart Outdoor Lighting?

In recent years, outdoor lighting has evolved beyond the simple illumination of pathways and gardens. With advancements in technology, a new era of outdoor lighting has emerged, known as…

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Sep 17,2023

Does Landscape Lighting Increase Home Value

The value that landscape lighting adds to a home can vary depending on several factors, including the quality of the lighting installation, the overall aesthetics, safety, and the location…

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Sep 09,2023

Do Outdoor Lights Use a Lot of Electricity?

Outdoor lighting improves visibility and reduces the risk of accidents, enhances the beauty of the landscape and architecture, and extends the usability of outdoor spaces. Thoughtfully designed outdoor lighting can…

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Mar 09,2022

How to Uplight Trees: A Complete Guide

While many homeowners tend to focus their energy on renovating the interior of their homes, updating your landscaping is a great way to improve your curbside appeal and…

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Mar 09,2022

How to Create the Perfect Tree Uplighting for Your Property

Although adding lighting features to your landscaping appears to be a straightforward task, trust us when we say there is more than what meets the eye. The exterior…

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Mar 09,2022

Landscape Lighting Tree Ideas to Transform Your Property

When it comes to enhancing the exterior of your property, plants are a common focal point when strategically designing your landscaping. And while homeowners can generally get away…

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Feb 03,2022

What You Need to Know About Uplighting vs Downlighting for Your Exterior House

Believe it or not, the exterior of your home is just as important as the interior. Why? Simply put, your curb side appeal can say a lot about…

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Feb 03,2022

A Complete Guide to Exterior Downlighting

  Crafting an exterior ambiance for your home not only helps enhance your curbside appeal, but it also aids in translating your design aesthetic seamlessly into the interior…

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Feb 03,2022

How to Strategize Walking Path Lighting For your Home

When it comes to exterior lighting for your home, a lot of homeowners tend to shy away from strategically installing walking path lighting around their property.…

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Jan 10,2022

Walkway Lighting Ideas for You

We all want to make your home space as welcoming and pleasant as possible. Some people might add personal touches to their interior decorations, renovate certain rooms in…

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Jan 10,2022

How to Add Landscape Lighting to Existing

As a homeowner, you probably spend a lot of time and resources updating the look of your house. Many people renovate areas of their house over the…

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Jan 10,2022

How to Light Up the Front of Your House

As homeowners, you spend a lot of time upgrading the interior and exterior of your house to make it look more appealing for yourselves and for your…

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Jan 10,2022

Front of House Lighting Positions

The front of your home sets the tone for your entire property, and outdoor lighting has the power to make a huge impact. Whether you opt for…

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Jan 10,2022

Outdoor Lighting Ideas for Front of House

Outdoor lighting has the power to transform the outside of your home. For both homeowners and visitors, it’s impossible to deny the many benefits that installing outdoor…

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Nov 24,2021

Benefits of Landscape lightning

  Where do people spend most of their time? Their houses, which is why there's no better investment than home renovations. In our opinion, one of the most worthwhile home…

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May 13,2021

How to care for your Astronomical Timer

Having trouble with you Intermatic DT620 Astronomical Timer?   This page will help you with Intermatic DT620 programming and battery replacement.   Intermatic DT620 Astronomical Timer Click here to see…

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May 01,2014

Five approaches to landscape lighting design

Most outdoor lighting systems call for a range of fixtures and styles. It is important to recognize which application will be appropriate for your specific area. Do your best to…

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Nov 10,2014

How to Plan Landscape Lighting

Most homeowners have what it takes to install basic landscape lighting. The job is simple enough; place some fixtures, run some wires, hang a transformer and connect everything. But you…

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Aug 01,2014

Nine landscape lighting tips and steps to install like the pros

 One landscape lighting tip is to bury your wire at least 6".Anyone can purchase a landscape lighting system from a big box store and install it in a weekend.…

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Jul 01,2014

The biggest mistakes in outdoor lighting installation

There are many ways to mess up an outdoor lighting installation. Most pros warranty their work. They also know the installation pitfalls and realize the value of doing the job…

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Aug 06,2019

How to Make Your House Look More Upscale With Outdoor Lighting

When driving through upscale neighborhoods, you will see houses that are beautifully lit up, with the most striking features accentuated. They do not just limit themselves…

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Apr 12,2019

3 Must-Have Decorative Items for Christmas

When Christmas comes around the corner, every home transforms into an aesthetically appealing delight. People start planning for the holiday weeks before the actual day. With…

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Sep 22,2018

Christmas Lighting and Decoration Installation Service FAQ

We receive many questions this time of year so we decided to create a Christmas Lighting and Decoration Installation Service FAQ to help you be more informed. The lights are…

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Aug 28,2018

landscape lighting troubleshooting

Most homeowners are not skilled at outdoor landscape light troubleshooting but this article can help with the basics. While this article will not address every option, it will help…

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Dec 01,2017

Outdoor LED Landscape Light Color Explained

When we inform customers that we exclusively use LED bulbs in our fixtures one of the first questions we are asked is, " What color are these lights?" Click to…

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Sep 09,2017

Installing Pole Lights

We recently reconditioned some old pole lights and installed them at a nearby church. In the process, we converted them to LED and connected them to a new outdoor landscape…

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May 16,2015

Homeowner's Guide to Professional Landscape Light Maintenance

If you want to maintain your system like a pro here is your homeowner's guide to professional landscape light maintenance. These steps are copied almost verbatim from our technician-training manual.…

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Jan 14,2016

Landscape Lighting Dangers

Homeowners rarely think about the potential landscape lighting dangers because things rarely go wrong. But when they do the results can be catastrophic. Here's a story about a homeowner…

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Mar 02,2015

Abulous Outdoor Lighting

If you are looking for landscape lighting we are your number one choice. Please give us a call or write and we'll schedule a visit at a time that…

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Jan 15,2015

America's 3 Most Popular Outdoor Lighting Techniques

Landscape lighting designers typically work from the same book. As diverse as houses in America are, there are three primary types/styles of landscape lighting. We'll shine some light…

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Dec 08,2014

How to calculate the cost of landscape lighting

Our customers frequently ask us how much their power bill will increase after their new system is installed. Nowadays we're only installing LED systems so our response is, "You will not…

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Nov 22,2014

Choosing beam angle

When you set out to purchase fixtures you may be presented with options for bulbs or fixtures with various beam angles. To  choose the correct beam angle you must consider the…

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Nov 19,2014

How to Install Down Lighting

It is fairly easy to install lights on the ground around your house but placing moonlighting 30' up a tree is a different story.  In this article we show the homeowner…

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Oct 15,2014

The Best Argument for Outdoor Lighting

By far the number one reason we're asked to install outdoor lighting is to enhance the beauty of property at night. Every system we've installed has enhanced the beauty…

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Sep 01,2014

Why outdoor lighting maintenance is important

Well maintained outdoor lighting systems last much longer than those that are not maintained.  Outdoor lighting maintenance should be performed on a regular basis.  Set a calendar and check the…

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Nov 05,2014

What is an LED bulb?

LED stands for Light-Emitting Diode.   It is assembled into a lamp (sometimes called a light bulb) for use in lighting fixtures. Two close-up views of a 3-watt LED…

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Apr 01,2014

Keep the peace - Avoid light trespass and keep the neighbors happy

On occasion we’ll see a landscape lighting installation that is beautiful and does a great job of showing off the home and landscape. But the installers overlooked (or didn’t…

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Oct 01,2014

What is voltage loss and how to avoid it

When you are low voltage outdoor lighting troubleshooting, voltage drop is a key element to check. Of course there are obvious items to check such as bad connections. But when…

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Nov 04,2014

Why do the pros use multi tap transformers?

To address the question right off the bat, the answer is voltage loss.  There are a number of causes of voltage loss but no matter what the cause it has…

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Jun 01,2014

7 Reasons why you should choose LED over traditional bulbs

In the past we would never consider LED (Light Emitting Diode) as an option for landscape lighting.  Only halogen bulbs provided the professional look that…

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