Landscape Lighting
With some well-placed landscape lights, you can savor the outdoors day or night just like you are able to enjoy your house around the clock.
After a stressful day, it is good to come home to your haven and be able to relax. Increasingly for many, what rounds this out is making your yard an oasis as well. If you’d like a free consultation about landscape lighting, book an appointment with us here at Ossie Electric.
We’ll determine the needed size of your transformer, based on the wattage draw of fixtures to be deployed and future expandability flexibility. We will review the differences in luminosity, acquisition costs, operating costs, and useful life of LED, incandescent or fluorescent lighting. If your outlets will be near or exposed to water, you’ll need a waterproof junction box and likely GCFI (ground fault circuit interrupter) outlets.
There are many options to weigh when planning your landscape lighting. Perhaps the first consideration is prioritizing the objectives of aesthetics, security, safety, and circulation all within your budget as you envision future social occasions or relaxing activities.
Typical elements to illuminate are:
- Home Facade
- Paths
- Decks or patios
- Trees or gardens
- Steps
- Home Address
- Water fixtures such as fountains, pools, ponds or hot tubs
- Seating or other focal points
- Cooking or BBQ sections
You’ll have to decide if you want your switches to be manual, automated or both. Automated options can be time based, light sensitive, motion sensors, or even remote controlled from another location. Another decision node is whether your lights are mounted to walls, posts, ceilings, trees, or in-ground. You may want to have lights that are adjustable to spotlight different elements in varying ways or seasonal, such as string holiday lights.
There are a half dozen lighting styles
- Garden - typically on posts up to 2 feet for paths or plant beds
- Wash - diffuse light for flat facades
- Bullet - narrow beam to highlight items
- Well - buried in the ground to beam light from the underside
- Downlight - located high and aimed downward to create a moonlit effect
- Flood - wider beam (than bullet) and brighter (than wash) for tall or wide objects
Well planned lighting will enhance your property’s curb appeal. By creating an inviting ambience you’ll extend your useful living space and add radiance to many special occasions. Call us at Ossie Electric to make that dream become a reality.