Outdoor Lighting Perspectives

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Dress Your Home Up in Beautiful Columbia Outdoor Lighting for the Coming Darker Months

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It’s back to school season, and if you’re like us you’re ready for a change of pace. At Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Columbia, we love helping our clients give their favorite outdoor spaces a makeover just in time for changing weather. Take advantage of the season, and dress up your home for the cooler weather with custom outdoor lighting design ideas.

downlighting Columbia SCWhen working with deck and patio lighting, sometimes you need one bigger, fuller outdoor lighting fixture to cover all the bases, like a flood light. However, sometimes you’ll prefer a softer, more subtle ambient light – in that case it’s a good idea to try something fun like string lighting or festival lighting. Additionally, there may be certain aspects of your yard that you want to make sure to bring out with deck and patio lighting. For these, we highly recommend installing a few simple accent lights around the seating area. A trained expert at Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Columbia can help you pick out the perfect combinations of fixtures and bulbs to blanket your deck and patio with a gorgeous Columbia outdoor lighting design with more depth and layering than you might otherwise have in your home.

SA-019-300x200Another fun area to upgrade in your home with professional Columbia outdoor lighting is the fire pit. Take your bonfires and after-dark get-togethers to the next level by crafting a one-of-a-kind atmosphere around the fire pit with just a few outdoor lighting fixtures. String lighting around the area is a smart option that instantly sets a fun party mood but also effectively illuminates the area for your guests. Moonlighting may be necessary if you have a particularly large seating area around the pit in order to ensure your guests’ safety around the fire. An Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Columbia professional can easily help you evaluate your unique home and fire pit area to determine which outdoor lighting fixtures are best suited to bring your perfect party spot to life.

outdoor lighting perspectives of ColumbiaTo find out how quickly Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Columbia can bring beautiful illumination to your home and outdoor living areas, call us today at (803) 935-4611, email us at columbiasc@outdoorlights.com, fill out the form to the upper right or visit our website for even more information. We look forward to hearing from you soon!

South Carolina Gamecock Football Season is Almost Upon Us. Make Sure Your Post Game Parties Can Last Outdoors Once the Sun Has Gone Down.

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outdoor lighting Columbia SCAs football season gets closer, anticipation for the first Gamecock’s game is growing. At Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Columbia, we know the level of celebration that goes into a post game victory party. With early evening kickoff times lined up, you’re going to want to make sure your outdoor lighting is adequate for your cookouts and post game parties. Not only will you add safety and aesthetic value to your home, but your home will be the talk of everyone at the party.

When it comes to Columbia patio lighting, we make sure to implement a design that will highlight your deck or patio’s perimeter. In doing so, you will have a boundary of light that bounces off the surrounding plants and even the trees. By adding illumination to carefully thought out areas, you’ll also eliminate any areas that would become potential tripping hazards come sundown.

hospitality lighting Columbia SCColumbia cafe lighting will help to add a festive, inviting ambiance to your post game parties. Cafe lighting helps to add a mingling area to your deck or patio that would dissipate rapidly once it gets dark outside. Along with increased ambiance and a festive atmosphere, cafe lighting will add visibility to all the areas that need illumination, including, your guests, your food, your grill, and even your backyard.

 
landscape lighting Columbia SCAs we enter college football season, don’t let your post game parties die out come nightfall. To find out how Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Columbia can help keep your post game party going as long into the night as you would like, call us today at (803) 935-4611, email us at columbiasc@outdoorlights.com, fill out the form to the upper right, or visit our website. We look forward to hearing from you soon!

Outdoor Lighting Can Substantially Increase Your Home’s Perceived Value

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outdoor lighting Columbia SCDid you know that by simply adding outdoor lighting to your home you can increase its perceived value by nearly 20%? In a time when many new home buyers are shopping at night, you’ve really got to stand out. It seems that people forget that a lot of potential home buyers do view homes after dark; outdoor lighting can make a huge impact.

In order to obtain the most effective bang for your buck, it’s extremely important to rely upon a professional outdoor lighting company. At Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Columbia we know that the key to curb appeal starts with an excellent outdoor lighting system design. It’s very important to take into account which areas of your home are the most important to focus upon.

Columbia SC outdoor lightingHere are some helpful tidbits we normally recommend:

• Reduce the wattage in your fixtures.

Your outdoor lighting system doesn’t need to be visible from outer space. Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Columbia offers a variety of LED fixtures that provide for energy savings and fantastic results. Even if you have a current halogen system, we are capable of retrofitting it to an LED system.

• Your front walkway is not always the most important area of your home.

Time and time again we see houses where they simply went to one of the “big box” stores for a set of solar powered fixtures to light their walkway. Those lights will work for a year or two, maybe. More importantly, they don’t illuminate the home adequately. Take the whole home’s illumination into account.

outdoor lighting Columbia SC• Lights that are too bright can make anything look bad.

How many times, especially around the holidays, have you seen multiple spotlights pointed directly at the front of a house? The light is often so intense it nearly looks like a spaceship. This type of lighting doesn’t allow for the multitude of shadows and silhouettes that can be obtained through a professionally designed and installed outdoor lighting system.

 
 
Through our free nighttime demonstration, we can show you which areas of your home need more lighting than others. We will set up temporary lights that will allow you to see immediately how your home will look with an outdoor lighting system. We will place the lighting fixtures in different areas to show you which areas of your home could and should be used as focal points and take your input into account. When looking to increase your home’s curb appeal through investing in an outdoor lighting system, it’s best to leave the heavy lifting to the professionals.

landscape lighting Columbia SCTo see how Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Columbia can provide more curb appeal and added perceived value to your home, call us today for a free nighttime demonstration at (803) 935-4611, email us at columbiasc@outdoorlights.com, fill out the form to the upper right, or visit our website. We look forward to hearing from you soon!

Columbia SC Outdoor LED Lighting Can Illuminate Your Home’s Landscape Longer and Save You Money

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outdoor LED lighting Columbia SCImagine having an outdoor lighting system that lasts 50,000 hours or more. Hypothetically, if you ran your outdoor LED lighting system 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, it would last approximately 5.7 years. Obviously your lighting system won’t be put through a regimen that strenuous. Not only is the extremely long life of an LED light bulb impressive, so are the savings on the energy costs. Wouldn’t it be nice to save money by not having to change bulbs and be able to reduce the amount of energy needed to illuminate your home’s facade or landscape?

outdoor LED lighting Columbia SCOutdoor LED lighting sometimes received a less than favorable reputation in its infancy. It could have been described as extremely bright, not suitable for illuminating a home’s facade, or appear bluish in color. LED technology has made such great strides that the display of the LED illumination be configured specifically to your liking. In fact, LEDs are capable of displaying the same color range as the traditional halogen lighting system and last nearly ten times longer.

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In regards to residential outdoor lighting, LEDs are the most energy-efficient and are capable of cutting down lighting energy costs by approximately 80%. This is achieved by using a lower wattage system than traditional halogens. With outdoor LED lighting you’re going to save money and illuminate your home and landscape with the same warm, soft glow as with halogen lighting.

outdoor LED lighting Columbia SCRetrofitting from a halogen outdoor lighting system to LED bulbs on existing lighting systems is becoming increasingly popular. In the early days of outdoor LED lighting, outdoor lighting systems had to be installed specifically for LED fixtures. This is no longer the case. Now, as LED technology has made amazing leaps, an existing halogen outdoor lighting system can easily be retrofitted to LED with new, longer lasting, and energy-saving bulbs by Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Columbia.

outdoor LED lighting systemIf you are interested in adding LED lighting to your property, or want to know how to retrofit your existing halogen lighting system to LEDs, please call us at (803) 935-4611, email us at olpcolumbia@outdoorlights.com, fill out the form to the upper right, or visit our website. We very much look forward to hearing from you!

Skeptical of the appearance of LED outdoor lighting for your Columbia SC home?

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Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Columbia wants you to see firsthand the hue of LED outdoor lighting.

When LED technology was first made available, blue or overly bright lighting hues were often used to describe their lighting effect. LED technology has improved and is ready for prime time. When you convert your Halogen lighting or add new LED outdoor lighting to your home, you can be assured that it will embody that same warm, amber colored appearance we have come to know and love from traditional halogen outdoor lighting.
 
 
 
 
 

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Through our expertise, your LED outdoor lighting will shine at the perfect color.

In order to ensure our LED outdoor lighting creates the desired warm and romantic outdoor lighting effect, we utilize several techniques. With LED lighting you’ll hear the terms “warm white” or “cool white”. The reason for this is temperature level is directly correlated with hue. We are able to control the temperature levels of our LED lighting fixtures and, therefore, can control the lumens (level of brightness) and color. Additionally, through the use of filters atop the LED fixtures we can even further enhance the lighting’s effect and display. Simply put, we can configure the color hue of an LED fixture to your desired color hue. The days of LED having a blue or bright white hue are long gone.

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As mentioned in our previous article, our nighttime demonstrations are a critical part of your buying process. You are able to see firsthand exactly how your lighting will look when it’s installed. We can demonstrate with both LED and the traditional halogen lighting so you can see for yourself that they are nearly impossible to tell apart.

Kenny-KaufmanIn order to see how LED outdoor lighting looks on your home, sign up for a free nighttime demonstration by calling us today at (803) 935-4611, emailing us at columbiasc@outdoorlights.com, filling out the form to the upper right, or by visiting our website.