Pathway lighting is one of the first types of exterior lighting homeowners will attempt to install themselves. Drive into any neighborhood and you are bound to see several homes with a row of cheap, solar-powered stake lights along a walkway. Their intentions are great – they want to guide their guests with a safe way up the driveway or walkway to the front door. Unfortunately,
Happy Summer! Are you ready to create some memories with your family and friends this summer? Setting up for home with great entertaining spaces is a must for planned parties and impromptu get-togethers. Regardless of your stage in life, having a pleasant and welcoming outdoor space is important especially with beautiful summers in San Antonio! It is time to make your backyard both FUN and
When hiring a Landscape Lighting contractor, you probably will have a lot of questions. However, there is one question that is seldom asked but can make one of the biggest differences in how long your new system will last. Sometimes it is the little things that make all the difference and in this case, it really is. So, what is the question? How do you
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again! This motto applies to a lot of things in life including Landscape Lighting! Maybe you bought some bistro lights for your patio but they don’t hang quite the way you imagined. Maybe you had your landscaping done and your landscaper added some light fixtures in the beds but it isn’t giving you the look you were
While google maps usually do a great job of getting you where you want to go, it still can leave you guessing at exactly which home you are supposed to find. How many times have you had to search to find the house number when looking for someone’s home? While your address is one of the most important features of our homes, it is often
We recently completed a project on a beautiful home in the Dominion neighborhood. The client was looking to add outdoor lighting to both their front and back yards and we are just in love with the results. We had the opportunity to use mixed tone LED lighting which is where warm LED lighting is used for some of the elements and cool LED lighting is
With the warmer weather soon to draw us outdoors again, now is the time to make sure your outdoor space is ready. Your spring maintenance checklist should begin with checking the timer on your outdoor lighting system. With daylight savings time starting this week, the mornings are darker and the evenings are lighter so you want to adjust your outdoor lighting to reflect that change.
As the city of San Antonio continues to recover from the many issues created by the cold and snow last week, we know that the state of your outdoor lighting is not on the top of the priority list. However, once homeowners have taken care of the big things, there are a few maintenance items to check on to ensure your outdoor lighting system is
Creating a smart home is a trend that here to stay and the costs have come down as more products have come to market. Even if you haven't set out to create a smart home, many products you buy now come with the capabilities to be controlled by an app on your phone. Thinking of creating a smart home? The first decision to make is
Outdoor spaces have become even more important this past year with people spending a lot more time in their own backyards. This is a great article on the outdoor trends in design for 2021. ? "One of the best ways to decompress when the world is in disarray is with soothing lighting both inside and out" https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/these-outdoor-design-trends-will-dominate-in-2021
