Transformers are used when installing low voltage lighting. Its function is to step down your line voltage, which is approx. 120 volts, and reduce it to 12 volts to operate your landscape lights. Transformers are typically the most expensive part of your landscape lighting project and often the least thought about. Properly sizing your transformer […]
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DIY Landscape Lighting
If you want to highlight your home with outdoor lighting but you don’t have it in your budget to hire a professional – don’t worry. We can help you. This post along with many others on this site will help you figure out what to do, what to use, and how to maintain it.
The Outdoor Lighting Expert on 'Landscape Lighting Design'
Help is here for the do- it- your-selfers and researchers wanting to find out more about landscape lighting design. If you know what you want to light but don’t know what to use below is a short and sweet list of which fixtures to use for the most commonly illuminated areas of a home.
The Outdoor Lighting Expert on "Whats up with Up Lights"
What are Up Lights? Well they are just that- landscape lights that point up. OK, that’s a little broad. Up lights is a term used to describe outdoor lighting fixtures that shine light upward away from the fixture itself. The source of the light, in this case the light fixture is never meant to be […]
Outdoor Lighting Fixtures
If you’re thinking about installing low voltage fixtures it helps to know what types of outdoor lighting fixtures are available and how to use them. This post will help you identify which fixtures you need to get the results you want. There are two types of landscape lighting fixtures to chose from, up lights and […]
The Outdoor Lighting Expert on 'landscape lighting maintenance"
Your landscape lights have been installed and life is good – for now. Just like your landscape your outdoor lights need to be maintenanced as well – just not as often of course. The Outdoor lighting Expert represents the outdoor lighting installation division of Dallas Curb Appeal Inc. And with each installation our clients get […]
The Outdoor Lighting expert with more Landscape Lighting tips
Perspective- This refers to the skillful placement of illumination that considers the viewer’s location. Every property has walkways, driveways, and various private areas frequented by the homeowners and their visitors. The landscape lighting designer needs to consider each location and create lighting schemes that present visual interest and serve the lighting needs. This is sometimes […]
The Outdoor lighting Expert on LED Landscape lights
LED landscape lights are becoming more and more popular these days. In my business I have seen a push toward LED landscape lights and away from line or 120 volt lights, mercury vapor fixtures and even standard low voltage landscape lighting. Technically LED and low voltage landscape lights are both low voltage outdoor lighting because […]
The Outdoor Lighting Expert: Aesthetic landscape lighting
The word task in it of itself brings to mind something you don’t want to do Aesthetic Lighting- What does this mean exactly. There are hundreds of fixtures on the market today but I am not only referring to the look of the fixtures but also the overall look of yourB landscape lighting design. Beauty […]
The Outdoor Lighting Expert: Landscape Lighting for safety and security
Landscape Lighting is more than just throwing lights in the ground. Professional landscape lighting designers have to be trained in this field both as an art form and it’s electrical aspects. Unless otherwized educated the typical DIY homeowner may try to design and install their own landscape lighting, but their efforts are thwarted by changing […]