Lighting blog

Springtime will spring before you know it. It’s the golden season for outdoor living, before the formidable Houston summer heat. Time to survey the patio, ready the grill, and get ready for those laid-back evenings with family and friends. Early springtime is also peak season for outdoor lighting inspection and maintenance calls.

A lot of the value of long professional experience is in knowing how to best approach the task at hand.  So it is on the artistic side of outdoor lighting. Experience teaches us how to think about the nightscape with a method.

Brightness not only draws the human eye, it draws the rest of a person, too. In the darkness, we tend to go to where the illumination has drawn our vision.

Turns out, a surprising number of homeowners think landscape lighting is too extravagant for their modest properties. A perk for the owners of estates, mansions, mini-mansions, and grand residences. That is to say, for people with something to show off.  A little reflection, however,  quickly flips this notion on its head. Landscape lighting is for smaller…