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Every quote calls itself custom Custom appears on almost every outdoor lighting quote in existence. The word has been used until it is empty. What is worth checking is whether there is an actual design behind it, because a design is a document and a package is a price.That is the whole distinction, and it is worth holding onto while you compare quotes. A package is a price with a description attached. A design starts with your building and arrives at a number. Both can be p

Landscape lighting is a design problem before it is a shopping problem Where roofline lighting handles the house, landscape lighting handles everything below it: the walk, the beds, the trees, the steps. The goal is light you see the effect https://emiliodcru884.moderncairn.com/posts/soffit-lighting-what-goes-under-the-roof-edge-why-permanent-lights-mount-at-the-eave-the-roof-edge-explained-a-homeowner-s-glossary of, not fixtures you count. Done badly, it looks like an ai

Half the day is missing from the plan People spend real money on the front of a house: landscaping, paint, hardware, plantings. All of it assumes the sun is up. Then the sun goes down and the whole thing disappears. Half the hours anybody sees the front of your home are after sunset for a good part of the year, and most of them see nothing.None of that requires much: a roof edge, an entry, one feature, and one consistent white. The uncommon part is planning for it at all, r

A definition worth having Permanent outdoor lighting is an LED system installed along the architecture of a building and left in place year round. It replaces seasonal light strands with hardware meant to stay outside. The LEDs sit inside a channel that gets color matched to the trim, so the daytime look of the house does not change much. Where it gets installed on a property Most installs run the roofline, then pick up gables, dormers, porch edges and columns as the desig

Every quote calls itself custom Nobody advertises standard packages. It costs nothing to say so it has stopped carrying information. The test is not what they say. 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 from the property. Both are legitimate ways to sell. Only one of them answers to your building, and you deserve to know which you have. W

Most of the decision is made before anybody quotes you Outdoor lighting gets quoted fast and understood slowly. One company is pricing a standard package, another is quoting a design for your actual roofline, and the prices look similar until the lights are on. Is there a real design? The first question is simple: is there a plan drawn for my house? A company that designs for the property will be able to tell you why the light goes where it goes. A company that cannot is s

What the word architectural is doing here The word sounds like an upgrade charge, but it points at something real. Outlining a building follows its perimeter. Architectural lighting responds to the structure. One treats the house as a shape. The other treats it as a set of surfaces, angles and depths.None of that means you need to know the terms. It does mean asking one question: can whoever is quoting you explain what they are lighting and why. If the answer is specific to

Sorting out the terms Three words come up constantly and most homeowners have never needed them before. The fascia is the vertical board along the roof edge, the one the gutter hangs on. The soffit is the horizontal surface tucked beneath the overhang. The eave is the part of the roof that hangs out past the house.Knowing the words will not be on a test, but it makes the quote readable. When somebody says the channel mounts under the soffit, you now know what part of the ho