The excellent blog 1247

The roof edge is the line your eye already follows From the street, what you actually see at night is an outline, and the roof edge draws that outline. It is the longest continuous line on the building, and it sits against the sky, so it has contrast working for it. Light that line and the building reads as a shape rather than a dark mass.That is the reason permanent systems live at the roof edge, and why one line up there outperforms a dozen fixtures at ground level. One c

The roof edge is the line your eye already follows Look at any house after dark and the shape you recognize is the roofline. It is the one line that runs the whole width of the house, and it sits against the sky, so it has contrast working for it. Put light on it and the outline comes back, which is the effect people are actually after.That is the reason permanent systems live at the roof edge, and the reason a single run there does more than fixtures scattered around the y

It starts with a conversation The first step is a free consultation, not a truck in the driveway. Somebody comes out and looks at the roofline, asks how you use the outside of your home, and figures out which lines are worth lighting. The consultation is free and it does not commit you to anything. The design comes before the price Your house has its own lines, so the plan gets drawn for it. The design should work with the house, following the roof edge, the gables and 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 roof edge, for others the yard, and for plenty of people it is the dark part of the property they never fixed. They are related jobs with different answers. Lighting the house Permanent outdoor lighting runs a slim LED track along the roofline and eaves, matched to your trim so daylight hides it, and run from your phone. One

Why the patio plan is its own thing Front yard lighting is for people looking at the house. The patio is for people sitting in it. That flips the priorities. Nobody cares how the patio reads from the road. What matters is whether people stay out there past nine.All of which adds up to one point. A roofline system does a great deal for the front of a house and almost nothing for where you sit. Two spaces, two separate sets of requirements to satisfy. What actually drives pe

Curb appeal gets planned entirely for daylight People spend serious effort on the exterior: paint, shutters, a new door, beds, mulch, a walkway. All of it is designed for daylight. After dark all that work stops existing. Half the hours people drive past your house are after sunset for a good part of the year, and most of them see nothing.None of that is complicated: a roof edge, an entry, one feature, and one consistent white. The uncommon part is thinking about it before

Accent lighting is a choice about what to leave dark The difference between accent lighting and general lighting is intent. It is not coverage. One feature, chosen on purpose, while everything around it stays dark. The dark part is not an oversight. It is doing the work.The concept takes one sentence and a lot of discipline. Choose a small number of things and light nothing else. Every plan drifts toward more, and the pressure comes from both directions. What tends to earn

The reason homeowners call The job looks easy from the ground, then it eats a whole weekend. Add the steep pitch, gutters you would rather not lean on, and the fact that December in the Upstate can be wet, and a lot of people decide it is worth hiring out. What a real installation service includes A proper Christmas light installation is more than a crew showing up with your old strands. It starts with a plan: what gets outlined, which trees get wrapped, how it looks from