What people mean by outdoor lighting
Ask ten Greenville homeowners what outdoor lighting means and you will get several answers. Some mean lights on the house. Others mean the yard. Some mean the side yard that never gets any light. They are related jobs with different answers.
The building itself
On the building, a permanent LED system follows the roofline, stays up
https://evercrestlighting.com/permanent-lighting/ all year, and changes color on demand. One install handles the holidays and the everyday.
The ground level
Below the roofline, the work is paths, garden beds, trees and steps. Out back, patio lighting extends the evening. Security lighting is for the corners, which is a different question from making the front look good. Accent lighting picks out the details.
How to decide what you need
If the complaint is that the front of the house goes dark, the roofline is the answer. Trouble walking the property after dark points at path and step lighting. The yearly holiday setup has one obvious fix. Most properties end up with two of the three.
The commercial side
On commercial property, the reasons change. A lit facade makes the building findable at night. Patio lighting decides whether the outdoor seating gets used after six. Parking and walkway lighting comes down to safety, and entry lighting sets the tone for a property before anybody is through the door.
What the first visit involves
The consultation is a walk around the property and a conversation. Expect to be asked how you use the yard and the front of the house after dark. Those answers shape the design more than a style preference does.By the end you should understand where the light goes and what it is doing there. An unexplained plan is not ready to be priced.A few details get you a more useful first conversation. The house height, the shape of the roof, the driveway, and whatever landscaping is out there. Rough answers are fine. It just gets the conversation to something useful faster.
One company, one plan
The cleanest version of this is having one plan for the house and the yard, so the roofline and the walkway are not fighting each other. EverCrest Lighting is an outdoor lighting company in Greenville, South Carolina handling permanent LED lighting, holiday and Christmas lighting, landscape lighting, patio lighting, accent lighting and security lighting, for homes and businesses. They serve Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina, from Greenville out through Greer, Easley, Simpsonville, Spartanburg, Anderson and Clemson. The consultation is free. Call (864) 252-1732 or email
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