Memorial Day – the day we all remember the sacrifices made to keep our country free, a day to gather with friends and family and be grateful for all we have, the first sure sign of summer. If your family was like mine, you probably spent most of the weekend and Monday outdoors. The weather was beautiful, and the temperature wasn’t too overpowering. It was a perfect weekend for games, food, and relaxation. As the sun began to set, did you find yourself wishing you could see your family a little better? If your home does not have Columbia outdoor lighting installed, you may have found yourself listening to their voices more than looking at their faces.
Like your indoor spaces, your outdoor spaces need lighting if you plan to use them at night. Outdoor lighting provides a safe environment in which your family can relax and play while creating an atmosphere that cannot be captured any other way. Dock lighting can add safety and beauty to your waterfront home. If your Columbia residence is a waterfront property, you may have already installed this type of outdoor lighting. Now consider using outdoor lighting to bring all of your outdoor living spaces together. Outdoor lighting can connect your dock to your pool area, which in turn will connect to your patio, garden, and your residence.
Columbia outdoor lighting provides safe, visually striking outdoor living areas. With your paths, steps, and pool or deck edges clearly illuminated, your family will be able to avoid trips and falls that could ruin a perfect evening. Just as lighting enhances mood and look indoors, it will outdoors too. Outdoor lighting designed and installed by Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Columbia can be used to evoke any mood you want – serene, enchanting, exciting, or dramatic. Using a variety of lighting techniques, fixtures placements, and bulb intensities, we can craft a lighting design that enhances your property’s very best features.
So be sure that your next weekend outdoors isn’t impacted by the disappearance of the sun, and take advantage of some of the best outdoor hours of the day. Call Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Columbia today at 803-935-4611, email us at columbiasc@outdoorlights.com, fill out our form to the upper right or visit our website for more information. We look forward to hearing from you soon!
Kenny Kaufman, Owner
Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Columbia
803-935-4611
It’s almost that time of year when your pool will be getting more use from parties and family time. Why not take the steps NOW to enhance your pool and surrounding areas with outdoor lighting from 
Low-voltage lighting is essential around water and can illuminate areas that can become a hazard to swimmers. In addition to the walkways, steps and other areas leading up to the pool can benefit from outdoor lighting as well, helping guests and children navigate an unfamiliar backyard. Outdoor lighting can also highlight focal areas such as trees or special plantings, architectural features near the pool area or just adding ambiance to the overall pool area. You can even extend the pool area’s perimeter with subtle illumination in which family and guests can mingle.
Are your home’s floodlights leaving you with an intense, over-bearing illumination yet providing you with minimal visibility coverage? Wouldn’t you like to get cohesive coverage through a soothing wash of light to keep areas of your property evenly lit? Moonlighting not only provides a more subtle source of illumination, but the fixtures are mounted high up within the trees and are nearly invisible. Not only does this technique deliver generous light, your yard will be awash in the subtle glow mixing with silhouettes created by leaves blowing in the wind.
Moonlighting, also known as downlighting, is the perfect replacement for harsh flood lights that don’t illuminate nearly enough of your yard. Lighting that is too bright can make anything appear stark, bland and just ugly. With different tree locations and thoughtful placement of our moonlighting fixtures, all the areas of your yard that turn pitch black come nightfall will be provided a beautiful “moonlight-like” glow.
In addition to the added illumination to areas of your yard and the beauty that comes from our top-of-the-line fixtures, energy savings are definitely a major benefit. Whereas most mercury vapor lights and house floodlights run on 120 volts, our fixtures are capable of providing the same amount of illumination with only 12 volts. Your energy savings would be incredible. Combine energy savings with added beauty and illumination to your backyard and you have a win-win.
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As a homeowner, you likely have many upkeep tasks that you perform regularly or have performed a few times over the years. By performing these tasks, you more than likely know exactly how much each task is going to cost you due to the regularity in which you perform these tasks. Outdoor lighting, if done right, only needs to be installed one time. So, more than likely, you don’t have a frame of reference for what to budget for your outdoor lighting system.
The first thing you should take into account is the area or areas you want to see illuminated. There have been several occasions where customers know they eventually want to light both their front yard and their back yard but know they want to start with just one area. At the same time, we’ve had customers add outdoor lighting in phases. While you may not have a frame of reference for what professional outdoor lighting will cost, we are more than happy to provide this information if you are in the early budget planning stages or even if you’re thinking about adding lighting next year. You will not find any hard sell tactics with us. We want to provide the best lighting designs and installations to homeowners based on their needs, timing, and budget.
If you have an established budget, we will work within your budget. We understand some people don’t feel comfortable sharing their budget with contractors out of fear they’ll get an inflated price only intended to spend the entire budget. Our pricing is quite simple. The pricing depends on exactly how many lighting fixtures we install. The whole process is taken into account; the design, fixtures, installation and guarantee are all calculated into the per fixture price. By performing a nighttime demonstration, it will be fairly easy for you to see exactly how many fixtures you are looking to have installed. Essentially, by getting to see how your home looks with an outdoor lighting system before it’s ever installed you’re getting to see the price as well.
To make your property party-ready for Labor Day, we will discuss with you where your guests like to linger, sit and dine. Then, we can leave those areas awash in warm light so they become a relaxing, inviting area after nightfall. At 
If you’re counting the days until the Labor Day weekend, you only have a little less than three weeks to wait. If you’re already thinking about the much deserved and anticipated long weekend, call 
String party lighting has never been more practical. Soon the sun will begin to fade and the nights will become increasingly longer, so why not light up your favorite outdoor spots and take in the cool, beautiful Columbia nights in style? Plan your installation just in time to host an all-day Labor Day grill out by the pool regardless of when the sun goes down. When your home and back yard are lit up with string party lighting, you can play on your own time in a glowing oasis of light.
In addition to creating a festive, inviting atmosphere, string party lighting can help add the very much needed element of safety. Areas that were once a tripping hazard during the nighttime hours, such as steps, pathways, stairways and even the pool can be fully illuminated. Installing a well-designed combination of string party lights in these areas is an easy solution to help prevent injuries and other accidents. Best of all, you can opt for either a permanent string party lighting system, or you can go with the battery powered string party lighting system.