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,
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
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
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
One of the things the Guru is great at is fixing other contractors’ mistakes. We remove broken landscape lighting systems on a regular basis and replace them with new quality lighting systems that will last a lifetime. Just when we think we have seen it all, we stumble on another situation that boggles the mind. A poorly installed lighting system not only often needs to
