The categories, sorted out
"Outdoor lighting" means different things to different people. Some mean the roofline. Others mean the yard. Some mean the side yard that never gets any light. They are different problems, and they get solved differently.
Lighting the house
On the building, permanent architectural lighting follows the roofline, is left in place year round, and changes color from an app. One install handles the holidays and the everyday.
Lighting the yard
Landscape lighting takes care of paths, plantings, trees and stairs. Out back, the patio needs its own light or nobody sits there. Security lighting lights the parts of a property that stay
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Choosing between them
If the complaint is "our house disappears at night", start at the roofline. Trouble getting from the car to the door is a landscape lighting problem. If the complaint is about hanging Christmas lights every year, permanent lighting is the answer. Most properties have more than one of these.
Commercial outdoor lighting in the Upstate
On commercial property, the same work answers different questions. Facade and storefront lighting is about being seen from the road. Patio lighting decides whether the outdoor seating gets used after six. Parking and walkway lighting comes down to safety, and the entrance is the first thing anybody sees.
The free consultation
The first visit is a walkthrough, not a pitch on the kitchen table. Expect to be asked how you use the yard and the front of the house after dark. Those answers drive the plan more than a color choice.By the end you should understand where the light goes and what it is doing there. If you cannot, the design was not explained well enough.A few details get you a more useful first conversation. One story or two. Roof pitch, if you know it. How long the driveway runs. What is planted out front. Rough answers are fine. It just shortens the distance between the first call and a real plan.
Putting it together
The cleanest version of this is having one plan for the house and the yard, so the roofline and the walkway are not fighting each other. EverCrest Lighting is a Greenville, South Carolina lighting contractor covering permanent roofline lighting, holiday lighting, landscape and patio lighting, accent lighting and security lighting, for homes and businesses. They serve Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina, from Greenville out through Greer, Easley, Simpsonville, Spartanburg, Anderson and Clemson. The consultation is free. Call (864) 252-1732 or email
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