Discover the Brilliance of Lite Visions Outdoor Landscape Lighting Today
Lighting, It affects everything we do in life, from a concert with great lighting to a building bathed in light during the holidays to a neighborhood with a beautifully lit outdoor fountain. Lighting is a huge part of our lives. Good lighting makes us happy when we view it. Lighting also provides security at night.Bad lighting including bright lights on posts at eye level or those awful car lot lights or the neighbors spotlight that blind us affect us in a not so great way. Mood lighting is what Lite Visions specializes in. We create low key, soft light effects that while highlighting certain areas of a homes architecture and yard area while defining your space,Lite Visions outdoor landscape lighting also provides safety, beauty and security. We hope you will love our signature lighting designs and agree that Lite Visions is your first and only choice for your outdoor landscape lighting in the Triangle area.
Perhaps you love a great place to eat and like to eat there in Nashville or Raleigh and the food is the same cookie cutter so to speak.
Now imagine someone started a outdoor lighting company and decided to make money by selling his rights to his outdoor lighting name to people who might have 10k to invest ,but have no ideas of their own about how to best personalize your lighting to be distinctive. These companies usually also manufacture their own CHEAP lighting fixtures and only care about their bottom line and high pressure SELLING.
Light Visions Creates Theatrical Lighting Effects for another happy customer
There are several outdoor lighting franchises some in our area have been sold several times,I even met one former franchise owner who told me of the headaches he encountered in dealing with their corporate owners.
Most of these outdoor lighting franchises have beautiful websites with pictures that do not belong to the LOCAL lighting owners and in no way reflect their work or individuality as a lighting designer.
Lite Visions owner Joe has worked in the concert lighting industry for over 35 years and has an extensive background as a lighting technician and a lighting designer and works closely with his clients to provide a unique and distinctive lighting design to transform their property and provide stunning nighttime lighting effects.
Lite Visions attends continuing education on outdoor low voltage lighting and is fully insured as well as being a member of the Association of outdoor lighting professionals.
Lighting design techniques are developed over years of experience. You cannot learn the lighting business from a book, it takes time as well as many years of experience.
Exceptional! That is the quality and level of our professionally installed outdoor lights! Joe did a phenomenal job! He came out and listened to our needs, provided options, set up demos on two nights to ensure we were pleased then installed our lights. We now have people drive by the house at night to look at our beautiful home! We’ve had people inquire about our lights and have commented on how awesome they are. All I can say is don’t fool yourself with any lighting group. Joe at Lite Visions truly understands how color, intensity, angle and type of lighting creates the ambiance needed for the effect that is needed for an outdoor masterpiece! You will not go wrong with him doing your work of art! Harry and Carla Silver
a month ago-Our home is about 100 yards off the road and our driveway winds through the woods. Joe visited with us about 10 days ago and listened intently to what my wife and I wanted to achieve. From the outset it was obvious that Joe is a lighting artist and we trusted his knowledge and creativity in designing and implementing an intriguing lighting plan.
We are delighted with the results! Joe has taken a personal interest in our project and has been a delight to work with- our project has really enhanced our property and we enjoyed our first “lit up” night yesterday.
Joe is a real pro and we are very pleased to have been introduced to him.
We were working with a designer on renovations and she recommended Joe and Lite Visions and we could not be happier with our resort style outdoor lighting. Joe actually suggested not doing the front of our home and instead spending our money in the back yard that we spend most of our our time in. We are so grateful and love spending time in our backyard now and it also takes your eyes away from the other homes behind us now as Joe said it would. Joe comes from a concert lighting background and his eye for design as well as his attention to detail is amazing,he explained why he does not normally use path lights and prefers to instead create moonlight effects with down lighting in trees. We have already given Joe and Lite Visions name to several of our neighbors and could not be more pleased.
Rick1 reviewa month ago-We recently redid our whole backyard. The final piece was the lighting. We found Joe through an online search, he came out and met with us, heard what we wanted, refined that based on his experience, pulled together a demo for us so we could see what it looked like before we decided, and then, once we gave the go ahead, he did the install. We could not be happier! It looks amazing! On top of doing great work, Joe is also super nice, completely dependable (shows up when he says he will, returns phone calls and texts), listens to what you want (when I didn’t like one of the fixtures he proposed, he found a fixture exactly like what I told him I wanted even though it wasn’t one he normally installed), honest (no surprise charges), fast, and completely committed to giving you a great experience as well as great lighting. We would recommend him to anyone and would definitely use him again if we decide to do more outdoor lighting.
We had 5 estimates and decided on Joe with Lite Visions because of his meticulous presentation to us during our initial meeting. Joe is incredible to work with and has transformed out backyard into a beautiful oasis!! He is a lighting expert and super professional from start to finish! We are now saving up to have him do the front of our home as soon as possible. He is highly recommended!!
Joe from Lite Visions recently came up with a outdoor landscape lighting design for my backyard and pool area at my home in Las Vegas.He installed a new WiFi color changing lighting system and I could not be happier with the results. While there are many outdoor lighting companies out there,Joe is a former concert lighting designer and technician. I could not be happier with my new outdoor lighting design .My backyard is like a tropical oasis in the evenings.
Great experience. Clear pride in his work and followed up to make sure I was happy. Lights look great and are much better quality than the big box store options. Hoping my outdoor light trouble shooting is behind me.
Joe replaced our old lighting and has made a great improvement with good quality fixtures and great detail in fixture placement that made our house look fabulous. Thank you Joe!
Joe made a great transformation to our house. The outdoor lighting he installed looks absolutely wonderful. It was a pleasure working with him. I’d recommend Lite Visions to anyone needing outdoor lighting.
Joe from Lite Visions is passionate about what he does with decades of experience. His patience is probably his other greatest asset. He’ll walk you through recommendations and listen to your ideas. He has a great guarantee, extras, and warm personality. It is clear the cost of his services are secondary to his primary goal of helping you.
Joe was super friendly and amazing to work with. Very professional and the work was done so fast! He came over and did a demonstration to make sure we liked everything and we are in love with our uplighting on the front of our home. We would highly recommend him to anyone!2
Decided to go to NC home show at State Fair Grounds and met Joe. He is very professional and extremely creative. He setup a demo system for one night and it looked stunning. Few of my neighbors were impressed as well. So we decided to get the lights installed. He made our home look great in the evening and we love it.
Joe is extremely knowledgeable and a real lighting professional. He installed lights in our front yard and turned a dull looking yard into something very interesting and appealing. He will create a plan and communicate that plan, and then execute it in a dependable, professional way. We have some other areas we are planning to ask Joe to assess for us, due to such a great experience with him.5
I typically don’t write reviews but I couldn’t be more pleased with the professionalism, design and great work that Joe did for me, hence the exception here. He is a true pro who has provided lighting set-design for many major touring acts and he showed the same level of attention to detail in designing an architectural lighting plan for my home. I can’t recommend Joe and Lite Visions highly enough. His work brought the exterior of my home to life. Really happy I responded to his direct mailer and contacted him.6
Joe does the best Landscape lighting in the area! From his music touring days and professional lighting experience he knows the ins and outs of the lighting systems he is installing. I had several quotes from other companies which were more expensive and not as detail oriented as Joe. Joe knows how to add just the right amount of light for the project and has the artistic eye for the best placement. He is honest and will not try to “sell” you on more fixtures. He did a Demo light set up which was invaluable!!!! (Other companies not wanting to do this because they “know where the lights need to go”) If you are spending the money on landscape lighting it is helpful to be a part of the process and see the placement of the lights. We may extend our lighting system in the future and will not use anyone else other than Joe (owner) of Lite Visions!
Joe did an amazing job with the lansdcape lighting in our backyard. He is an expert at what he does and offered lighting ideas that completely changed the look and feel of our yard.6
At Lite Visions Landscape Lighting we take pride in our unique and distinctive outdoor landscape lighting designs and we were fortunate enough to come across a innovative fellow from Canada who manufactures these great light fixtures that not only project shadows across the yard and walkway.,but they as the first customers who saw them said. WOW, those are a work of art in the daytime.
See your home in a whole new light this evening with professionally designed and installed outdoor landscape lighting.
Professional outdoor landscape lighting is not cheap, and Cheap outdoor landscape lighting is not good.
I work with an interior designer who says “Do it right and you only cry once”. My outdoor lighting designs include seeing the effects not the light source.I work with many different types of fixtures, lamps,color temperatures,filters and shields. Along with Professional lighting that lasts a very long time.
Maintenance is a must,I can’t tell you how many old installs I get called to look at where a fixture or cable has grown into a tree.Old wires and bad connections that do no longer provide proper voltage to the lights. Here are a few Horror story pictures.
old transformer a landscaper tried to fix with ducttape
old cheap lighting we took out and replaced
This fixture is like an aluminum beer can and most split up the middle,this system was supposedly professionally installed and was only 3 years old
cheap light fixture that can’t hardly be relamped
what happens to your wiring if connectors are not properly connected
Cheap path light I took out and redid the entire lighting system
Have you ever driven through a neighborhood at night and looked around at the houses? Some of them are completely dark. Some of them may have on a porch light or even a few solar powered garden lights. But the houses that really stand out are the ones with professional outdoor lighting. You can tell these houses by the way they stand out without looking like a light show. Instead, a house with great outdoor landscape lighting will look natural. Its architectural features and beautiful landscaping will be lit just enough to show off their beauty. Did you ever wonder how that happens? It’s the result of proper planning and professional installation.
Why Spend Money On Landscape Lighting
Some people may wonder why they need outdoor landscape lighting. It may seem that they have all they need with a porch light to signal to people that they are home. But this couldn’t be farther from the truth. Look around at some of the more upscale neighborhoods and what you’ll see if lots of high-quality outdoor lighting. And there’s a reason for that. Outdoor landscape lighting serves many purposes. We’ll present here the BEST reasons to install outdoor landscape lighting right here.
1. Curb Appeal
They say that you only get one chance to make a first impression. At a business meeting that might mean you have to dress right, look good, and speak well. But for your home, we call that first impression curb appeal. The “curb” in curb appeal means that you don’t have much time to make that first lasting impression. Before someone has even stepped onto your property, they have made up their mind about your house. In fact, many homebuyers have already decided on whether they are interested in a house before they walk in the front door.
There are lots of things you can do to increase curb appeal. A nice fresh coat of paint, some landscape design, and even just sparkling clean windows go a long way toward making a good first impression. But all of that becomes irrelevant at night. That is unless you have high-quality outdoor lighting.
The goal of outdoor lighting is to highlight all of the best features of your house and landscape without looking like a light show. To do that, careful planning and professional experience go a long way.Lite Visions landscape lighting comes from many years in the concert and theatrical lighting industry and that makes us one of the most experienced landscape lighting professionals you will ever meet. Our attention to detail and distinctive design approach will leave your house looking like a beautiful resort.
They pride themselves on excellent customer service, quality materials, and top-notch installation.
2. Security
Many homeowners suffer from optimism bias. That’s just a fancy way of saying that they think they are less likely to suffer a negative event compared to others. Of course, that’s not how statistics work. The U.S. Department of Justice reports that 3.7 million household burglaries occur each year. And in case you thought you could be the exception, they also report that 88% of those burglaries are residential, mostly occurring in privately owned, single unit homes. The sad truth is that there is little reason to believe that you are immune to the risk of unwanted visitors to your home.
However, there is a way to significantly decrease your chances of burglary.
Escaping burglars is kind of like the old joke about escaping a bear. You don’t have to run faster than the bear, you just have to run faster than everyone else. Burglars will go after the easiest targets. Making your home even a little more secure will drive unwanted intruders to an easier target.
One way to make your house less desirable as a burglary target is to install some security lighting. One typical type of security lighting is motion-sensor controlled lights in the front and back of your house. For instance, a single bright floodlight by your driveway, attached to a motion sensor, can be a huge deterrent. Any burglar that is suddenly caught in a brightly live driveway will quickly disappear to a darker target. The same is true of lighting up back porches or yards. A single bright floodlight can do the trick. However, floodlights are not the only solution.
Having your house and landscaping tastefully lit throughout the night can make it hard for an intruder to approach your home unnoticed. One of the most common hiding places for a burglar as they approach is in the shadow of trees. If you light up your trees with some subtle uplighting, you will both create a beautiful landscape feature and deprive burglars of a useful hiding spot at the same time. If your home is built near an area of dense brush or trees, this can be especially important.
Most burglaries are actually committed by intruders who enter through a first-floor doorway or window. So lighting up these areas on your home should be a top priority.
3. Making Your Outdoor Spaces Usable at Night
The third reason to install outdoor lighting on your home is to make your outdoor spaces usable at night. If you have a garden patio, grill area, deck, or any other useful space, there’s no reason it should be less useful at night. These days, outdoor living space is one of the most popular additions to a home. Here in Raleigh NC, where the weather is mild much of the year, adding outdoor lighting to these areas can dramatically increase the usable living area of your home.
If you have a deck, walkway, or any type of steps or stairs, it is vital that you light it up. This is as much for safety as recreation.
Pathway lighting is an essential part of any outdoor lighting scheme. Many homeowners install simple solar lights in parallel rows along either side of a pathway. While this may provide some light and help avoid trips and falls, it is far from ideal. Solar lights are rarely bright enough to light a pathway adequately. They are also usually cheap and easily breakable. Finally, installing your lights in parallel rows is aesthetically a poor choice.
Again this is the best reason to hire an outdoor lighting professional who will tastefully use a combination of lights that will create a soft warm glow as well as creating safety along pathways and outdoor areas with out creating an airport runway effect.
Reliable Outdoor and Landscape Lighting
From lighting design to low-voltage installation, professionals such as Lite Visions landscape lighting do it best along with having the best warranties along with service and maintenance.
EXHIBITOR SPOTLIGHT: LITE VISIONS LANDSCAPE LIGHTING INC.
copied from a home show blog we did earlier this season
We’re excited to have Lite Visions Landscape Lighting join us at the Fairgrounds Southern Ideal Home Show. Lite Visions Lighting Designer Joe, went from lighting up the stars to lighting under the stars with his outdoor lighting, architectural lighting and landscape lighting design firm Lite Visions. Lite Visions landscape lighting is located in Raleigh NC and currently services the following areas: Apex, Cary, Chapel Hill, Clayton, Durham, Fuquay Varina, Garner, Goldsboro, Holly Springs, Knightdale, Morrisville, Raleigh, Smithfield, Wake Forest and Zebulon. Lite Visions is not a lighting franchise, which anyone can purchase. Lite Visions is locally owned lighting design and installation company. They pride themselves in delivering the best LED Outdoor Fixture, workmanship and customer service to our clients in Raleigh and the surrounding areas. We do custom outdoor lighting to both residential and commercial properties.
Before seeing the team at booth #2347, get to know more about them in our brief interview below.
Describe your products and services.From Lighting the Stars to Lighting Under The Stars: Lite Visions Owner and Raleigh Native, Joe went from working with Concert acts Whitney Houston, Tim Mcgraw and Alan Jackson to the Christmas Sensation The Trans Siberian Orchestra as a Lighting Technician and Lighting Designer. Joe is now designing and installing unique outdoor and architectural lighting in the NC area. We also update older outdoor lighting systems. Please see our 5 star reviews on google.
What is your best home or garden tip for the season? If you are considering outdoor lighting, please make sure the person you use knows what they are doing. I see jobs where the job looks cheap due to the fact someone put lights under the windows of the home instead of lighting up the architecture of the home. Or they installed a transformer in plain sight of the front of the home. A number of people install lights, that does not mean they are lighting designers. I paint pictures with light.
What are your featured deals this season? I work with companies who offer the best products and warranty available in the professional outdoor lighting industry. I stand behind my installations and get many referrals because of that.
What are your home and garden pet peeves? Seeing a BAD lighting job when I drive out of a neighborhood in the evening knowing some homeowner paid good money for that job and does not know the difference. We are not a lighting franchise that can be sold to anyone wanting to open a franchise business. We do not sell or install inferior products just to make a profit. All of our products have the best professional warranty available to the lighting professional. As a lighting designer. I want to walk into a home and see what the owner’s view is outside to paint a beautiful picture with lighting that they can view. Some installers just put up a few lights that people riding by the home can see, that is not a lighting design. But what their franchise told them to sell as a package. Some companies stick lights in the ground and never come back to see how they look at night.
What is the strangest client request you’ve ever received? To light a big tree in a front yard that I would not have chosen to light, the couples son had recently passed away and he had planted that tree for his mom. When I heard that story I lit that tree for no charge.
What is your favorite part of the home show? Meeting and making friends from all walks of life and hearing the ohhs and ahhs from them the first time we turn their new lighting on. I recently did a lighting design and spent alot of time with the client over several evenings. He was so in awe of what the initial lighting looked like that we installed more lighting and he was like a kid with a new toy. I am passionate about my lighting designs.
Any additional information you’d like people to know? Professional outdoor landscape lighting is not cheap, I work with an interior designer who says “Do it right and you only cry once”. My designs include seeing the effects not the light source.I work with many different types of fixtures, lamps,color temperatures,filters and shields. Maintenance is a must,I can’t tell you how many old installs I get called to look at where a fixture or cable has grown into a tree.
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APRIL 5-7, 2019 NORTH CAROLINA STATE FAIRGROUNDS
creating a nighttime backdrop with professional outdoor lighting
As a professional lighting designer I think of myself as creating a portrait with my outdoor lighting designs using light as my brush and my client’s home and property as my canvas with the end results looking like a beautiful resort with it’s breathtaking views at night after the sun sets.
I recently had a property owner contact me to see if I could work off their landscape architects plans for their landscape lighting. The first thing I noticed was the trees not lit up properly and too many obtrusive path lighting fixtures. We met and walked the property in person and came up with a plan that would be the icing on the cake of their renovations. After getting the landscaping in and their outdoor patio furniture and fire table I was able to see their views from the seating areas and came up with a plan completely different from the landscape architects for their outdoor landscape lighting. This is the view when walking in the backyard gate. These stunning lighting fixtures are works of art as well as throwing off beautiful shadows across and onto the walk in.
In this patio area I felt it was important for the to use the beautiful fence as a backdrop for the outdoor landscape lighting with the new trees and water features throwing soft shadows all along the fence ,but keeping the seating and fire table area out of any direct lighting.
Outdoor landscape lighting design is being able to visualize something that others can’t see.
