Adding bistro lighting (string lights, café lights) strands creates an inviting nighttime ambiance that draws you in and lets you enjoy your outdoor space long after the sun sets. Hanging bistro lighting seems like it is an easy DIY project, right? Unfortunately, bistro lighting is not as easy as it looks to do it correctly. At Landscape Lighting Guru, we are often asked to do
LED lamps are considered one of the most important and best inventions in the last 20 years. They have been widely available for 10 years in consumer bulbs. LLG discusses whether LED is living up to the initial high expectations. What is LED? LED stands for light emitting diode. LED lighting products produce light up to 90% more efficiently than incandescent light bulbs. How do
Why winter is a good time to install Outdoor Landscape Lighting Happy New Year! We hope you had a great holiday season and are ready for a great 2022! While San Antonio doesn't usually have severe winter weather, we certainly have our fair share of colder temperatures this time of year. While we stay cozy warm inside, it is easy to forget about the outside.
Looking for a way to give your house some holiday decor without climbing up the ladders and untangling the strands of outdoor lights? If you have an outdoor lighting system for your home, all the hard work has already been done for you. Getting your home ready for Christmas is as easy as changing a light bulb! While we love helping homeowners get ready for
Landscape Lighting Guru answers the most frequently asked questions when it comes to outdoor lighting design and installation. Do you contract out your installers? No – all of our installers work for Landscape Lighting Guru and are considered an important part of the LLG family. We are building a new home – when should we consider landscape lighting into the project? It is best
Our landscape lighting designers take a lot into consideration when creating a lighting plan for your home. They design the space to address the atmosphere surrounding your home and landscape. The suggestions include the accent effect given by properly placed directional LED fixtures at strategic locations creating dramatic light and shadows across your yard and landscape. Our designers consider what makes YOUR home and property unique
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,
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
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
