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What permanent outdoor lighting means Permanent outdoor lighting is a fixed LED system mounted along a building's rooflines, eaves and edges and left in place year round. It replaces the strands you hang and take down with something built to stay. Because the channel is color matched, daylight hides most of it. Where it gets installed on a property Most installs run the roofline, then add gables, dormers and porch lines where the design calls for it. Businesses use it the

It starts with a conversation The first step is a free consultation, not a truck in the driveway. Somebody walks the property, asks how you use the outside of your home, and works out where the light should go. It costs nothing, and nobody expects a decision on the spot. The design comes before the price Your house is not the same shape as the one down the street, so the plan gets drawn for it. A good design traces the lines the building already has: the main roofline, the

Outdoor lighting is really several different jobs Ask ten Greenville homeowners what outdoor lighting means and the answers split. For some it is the house, for others the walkway and the trees, and for plenty of people it is the dark part of the property they never fixed. They are related jobs with different answers. The building itself On the building, permanent architectural lighting traces the roof edge and the gables, stays up all year, and changes color on demand. Th

Why the patio plan is its own thing Front yard lighting is seen from outside. Out back the light is around you, not in front of you. That flips most of the design rules. Nobody is grading the back yard from the street. What matters is whether the space still works after dark.The short version: the patio deserves its own plan. The front and the back rarely get solved by the same fixtures, and assuming otherwise is how a patio ends up with one bright light on the wall. Two sp

The word is free Nobody advertises standard packages. It costs nothing to say and it is not a claim anybody checks. The test is not the word. It is whether anything was drawn before the number appeared.Keep that in mind through the whole process. A package starts with a number and works backward. A design starts with your building and arrives at a number. Both are legitimate ways to sell. Only one of them is designed for you, and you should know which one you are buying. W

Why the roofline and not somewhere else Look at any house after dark and the outline you pick out first is the roof edge. Nothing else on the house runs that far uninterrupted, and nothing else has the sky behind it. Put light on it and the house has an edge again, which is most of what people mean when they say a house looks good lit.Which is why almost every permanent lighting system starts at that line instead of being spread across the walls. It is the highest impact ru

Why December looks the same every year Around Thanksgiving, the tub of holiday lights comes out of the garage. Half the strands are tangled, a whole run stays dark, and somebody is about to climb a ladder in the cold. You put up with it because the house looks good lit, though the setup is nobody's favorite part. Then in January you take it all down again. What permanent Christmas lights are, plainly Permanent Christmas lights take the yearly setup off your calendar. Inste

Why the term tells you nothing Nobody advertises standard packages. The word no longer distinguishes anybody. The test is not the word. It is what you get to look at before the number appeared.Keep that in mind while you are comparing companies. A package is a price with a description attached. A design starts with your building and arrives at a number. Both are legitimate ways to sell. Only one of them answers to your building, and you deserve to know which you have. The