When renovating a home or building, one often-overlooked service offering is landscape lighting. Lighting is a major component that adds tremendous value not only to the installer but to the home as well.
If you’re looking to include landscape lighting into your services offerings, there are three key elements to keep in mind: safety, function and aesthetics.
Provide safety for your customers.
We talk about slips and falls a lot when it comes to snow and uneven surfaces, but we tend to overlook how accidents can happen all year round due to low visibility.
While smaller properties can rely on ambient lighting from the home or streetlights to guide tenants and potential customers, most landscapes will benefit from additional lighting that makes people feel safe.
Adding path lights along driveways or walkways can help your clients avoid stumbling in the dark and potentially getting injured. It’s also important to make sure that sloped areas like hills, stairs and ramps are properly lit. Even if you have a property with primarily flat surfaces, it is important to have proper lighting to guide the paths around the landscape.
Enhance the landscape’s features.
Lighting is great for drawing attention to the most impressive areas of your property, making sure people can see them them day and night.
Using a variety of lighting types can create striking effects on the landscapes. Up lighting, which is simply light that points up from the ground or low surface, can be used to draw attention to walls, trees and garden features.
Down lighting can be used to cast shadows down on walkways to create a moonlight effect or for additional area lighting. Additional upgrades to the functional lighting system include dimming and color options to create a variety of custom scenes in the landscape.
Add greater aesthetics.
After mapping out the functional lighting of the space, you can start to add more lights to create aesthetically pleasing lighting around the yard.
Set up lights in major areas like patios, water features or garden statues. Adding a combination of up/down lighting can create dramatic scenes to increase the impact of an ordinary landscape. Strategically placed lighting features will also make a new landscape project look much more mature and substantial.
When you incorporate lighting that serves all three key areas (safety, function and aesthetics), your customers can spend more time enjoying their new investment with family and friends. Your thoughtful lighting placement will give them a whole new view of their landscape once the sun goes down.
If you’re looking for help with your lighting projects or thinking about adding landscape lighting to your business services, stop by your local Ewing store for more information.
