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Bring your landscape to life at night while improving the safety and security of your home! Outdoor lighting is the most often overlooked element of a landscape. Lighting systems are economical, safe, and provide the following benefits to homeowners: Increase security by discouraging potential intruders and elimating shadows. Provide safe access to stairs, paths, driveways and entry areas. General illumination to showcase architectural and landscape features. Extend a feeling of warmth and welcome. We will design and install your outdoor lighting system to accentuate the landscape and architectural style of your home, while increasing your home's safety, security, and value. We will design a lighting system to illuminate the most advantageous and desired features of your home for maximum effect. There are many techniques for creating outdoor lighting. These techniques, often used in combination, include uplighting, downlighting, pathlighting, and backlighting. Uplighting uses a low location to cast light upward and emphasize a particular feature in the yard, such as a gazebo or ornamental tree. Light may be cast in either a broad spread to create a magical, mysterious air or a more concentrated beam to create a dramatic effect. The light creates enough illumination in the area for increased safety and security. Downlighting simulates natural illumation from the sun or moon. By using a location above eye level on an object, such as the canopy of a mature tree or gazebo, it casts interesting shadows down onto the surrounding areas. At the same time, it creates general illumination in the area for increased safety and security. Different fixtures and lamps may be chosen for varied brightness and illumination. Pathlighting illuminates down and outward to provide a soft, subtle light for your stairs, paths, driveway and entry areas. Backlighting involves casting light to create long shadows on the lawn or wall, give a feeling of depth to the landscape, or reveal an interestingly textured surface, such as a brick or stone wall. Position a light on the wall behind a plant to make the plant appear as a stark silhouette. Contact us today for your complimentary consultation!