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The floodlight instinct Almost everybody starts with a floodlight. The instinct makes sense and does not hold up. A single harsh source creates as much shadow as it removes, and the shadows it makes are darker than the darkness it replaced.Put all of that together and the picture is not what most people install. Lower output, wider coverage, careful aim: that is the whole approach. It costs no more than the floodlight approach in most cases, and the result is genuinely bett

Your building works after hours whether you light it or not People drive past your building after dark every day, and it either registers or it does not. Unlit, it is not part of anyone's evening, and so does the business in it. A lit one stays in the mental map of everybody who drives that road.None of this is decoration spending. A building that reads clearly at night is doing work every evening. It is one of the few exterior expenses that runs every night without further

Before any hardware goes up The first step is a look at the property, not a crew on the roof. That visit covers the roofline, the gables, the porch and anything else worth lighting. The consultation is free and it does not commit you to anything. The design comes before the price Your house is not the same shape as the one down the street, so the plan gets drawn around it. A good design traces the lines the building already has: the roof edge, the peaks, the columns, the e

The idea behind permanent holiday lights Permanent holiday lights stay on the house. That single sentence covers most of why people want them. The hardware is an LED track run along the roofline and eaves, color matched to your trim so it does not stand out during the day. More than Christmas Most people start with Christmas. What they use it for after that is broader. Orange for Halloween. Red and blue for the Fourth. School colors on a Friday night. Pink for a birthday.

First, which part is which The roof edge comes with vocabulary, and the names are worth two minutes. The fascia is the flat board facing you at the edge of the roof. The soffit is the underside, the panel you see when you stand under the overhang and look up. The eave is the whole overhang, where the roof extends past the wall.You will not need this vocabulary often, but it appears in every estimate, and quotes are hard to compare when you are not sure what is being describ

Outdoor lighting covers more than one job Ask ten Greenville homeowners what outdoor lighting means and the answers split. For some it is the roof edge, for others the yard, and for some it is the corner nobody can see. They are related jobs with different answers. The building itself Permanent outdoor lighting puts an LED channel along the roof edge, matched to your trim so daylight hides it, and run from your phone. One install handles the holidays and the everyday. The