Category: Outdoor Lighting

Artist Definition

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Artist,Definition :Someone who has creative skills and is able to see and create things others can not even imagine could be there.Weather on a stage setting or on a beautiful property or a homes architectural features. As an artist who patients with illumination,I look at the big picture of creating a painting with light that can be viewed from different angles as well as from inside looking out the window.

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Less lumens is usually more with landscape lighting
Sometimes it’s hard to convince a person more than one light fixture per object might be needed to create the magic. They only know what they have seen prior, weather it was right or wrong.
Imagine telling an artist painting a beautiful photo to use less colors or brushstrokes.
Thankfully most of our clients understand what we do and usually give us free reign to create our art with illumination.
Using more fixtures on a tree or other object gives us the artistic freedom to properly illuminate it from all sides and create a lower lumen level and equally allow it to be viewed 3 dimensional, not just one sided.
The world is not flat and neither should your landscape lighting be flat and one sided.
See our google reviews and photos to see what makes us different, with over 30 years in the concert and theatrical lighting world.
At Lite Visions Landscape Lighting ,We understand lighting design.
One of our landscape lighting friends in the Los Angeles Ca area who does amazing work

less lumens is sometimes more

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Less lumens is more when designing and creating ambiance and atmosphere with landscape lighting.

LED technology and internal control of dimming and lighting output has put a great tool into the hands of lighting designers.

Properly designed and installed outdoor landscape lighting not only increases your safety and security around your property,it also helps your emotional well being by helping you relax and enjoy your outdoor spaces as it creates a welcoming atmosphere.

As a lighting designer sometimes we sometimes must use more fixtures to properly illuminate an object ,think of a painting with many brushstrokes and that is how a good lighting designer accomplishes his task. This performed with very low lumens on the fixtures creates a magical nighttime space for you to relax and enjoy.

While there are other companies who install one fixture here and there with no rhyme or reason except they attended a short lighting seminar to increase profits.Our world is not one dimensional and no ones home or property should be lit up one sided.

Proper outdoor landscape lighting not only affects a person’s senses, but by creating a peaceful relaxing environment by using imagination and vision, helps the person to relax and enjoy their outdoor space into the evening hours.

Add concert quality audio and sit back and imagine the symphony playing in your own space with the relaxing outdoor illumination as you drink a glass of wine and forget about the days problems.

Contact us today to come home to a peaceful and relaxing custom designed outdoor space of your own.

www.litevisions.com Raleigh NC

: From lighting the Stars to Lighting under the stars

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be sure to check out our many 5 star google reviews

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beautiful spanish moss covered trees with soft illumination on the trent river
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One of my lighting mentors who does amazing work

https://winterlinglighting.com/Welcome.html

Retrofitting landscape lighting systems with energy saving LED Lamps.

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There are many old halogen systems that are in need of a landscape lighting led retrofit. A lot of these outdoor lighting systems are in dire need of maintenance from having the wrong color temperature bulbs that either the homeowner or someone else installed to just some of the lights not working at all to the lights are just falling apart or have bad/old wiring to the plant material being 3 times larger and way outgrown the original lighting plan. I see this in the evenings when I ride thru some of the older neighborhoods like Wakefield, Bedford,Weston,Preston when leaving a new outdoor lighting installation and driving the the neighborhoods at night. These things happened over a long time due to either poor maintenance or lack of any maintenance. Maintenance on the outdoor landscape lighting would have included re-positioning lights as plants grew along with cleaning fixtures and checking lights and timers bi annually to keep your outdoor landscape lighting looking like new always. Contact Lite Visions today to get your old outdoor lighting system looking like new once again.

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a great lighting blog by our friends in Utah

https://www.utahlights.com/blog/replace-vs-repair-landscape-lighting

landscape lighting VS magical landscape lighting

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I get a few phone calls weekly that start out like this,I have a 1-3 year old lighting system and it just doesn’t look like some I have seen. Can you stop by and take a look at it. They have just ok landscape lighting VS magical landscape lighting .Whomever installed their lighting gave them a very basic install and probably did not even come back to do a night time lighting focus. I usually set up a time to stop by and see what their outdoor landscape lighting looks like and setup a time to stop back another evening and do a nighttime demonstration of what their outdoor landscape lighting could look like. Coming from my many years of working on concert and theatrical lighting I see things in a very different perspective. I work to create depth,definition as well as layers to give a property a magical nighttime lighting effect. I actually have lighting vendors who have seen my work and send me samples of their products.

Lite Visions is not your typical cookie cutter outdoor landscape lighting designer,if you want your property to look like a resort oasis in the evening hours call us today.

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Lite Visions Landscape Lighting 919-518-9950

a friend of ours Anthony who does amazing landscape lighting in LA

https://www.californiaoutdoorlighting.com/gallery/

CREATING YOUR OWN RESORT OASIS WITH LANDSCAPE LIGHTING

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Create an oasis with outdoor landscape lighting, As a concert lighting designer and lighting technician for over 35 years in the live entertainment industry working with acts from Alan Jackson and Tim McGraw to the Christmas sensation the Trans Siberian Orchestra. I feel I am creating your own resort oasis with landscape lighting when I bring those experiences and effects to my outdoor landscape lighting designs in the Raleigh NC area.

I not only use the best outdoor landscape lighting products available but I design soft, not overpowering outdoor lighting effects. Creating an oasis in your home for you to enjoy into the evening hours. I care about each and every outdoor landscape lighting project as if they were my children and add value to each project with a personal touch .

When Lite Visions Landscape Lighting’s owner Joe decided to go from lighting up the stars to lighting under the stars in Raleigh NC ,he knew lighting would be his only focus. As a former lighting designer and lighting technician for bands since he turned 18,Joe searched out the best professional grade landscape lighting fixtures to install at his clients homes and gardens. I wanted to give my clients the best possible value for their money. Landscape lighting ,when designed properly has the ability to change and enhance your outdoor landscaping completely. Lite Visions landscape lighting is an artistically based design company and we might take more time and perhaps a few visits to make certain to visualize all the options for each clients unique situation. We do this by choosing a few fixtures which we can control the lumen output on as well as the optics for each specific lighting need to turn your home and outdoor area’s into your own personal resort oasis. Contact us today and see why Lite Visions Landscape Lighting in Raleigh outshines the competition.

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Nightscaping class certificate
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Garden light certificate
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Nashville concert lighting company Bandit lites I toured with
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3 doors down tour itinerary book
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computer lighting repair tech certificate
high end computer lighting tech certification
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with some record awards
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https://sterling-lighting.com/

 

Creating a nighttime oasis with landscape lighting

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Lite Visions landscape lighting will help you to create a nighttime oasis with landscape lighting. Many homeowners have spent thousands of dollars to create a beautiful backyard oasis, including architectural features, hardscaping elements,pools,ponds,waterfalls and lots of landscaping from palm trees and grasses to bamboo privacy screens and Japanese maples and zen gardens. The only problem is, after the sun goes down this all disappears into the night.

Professionally designed landscape lighting can not only make your backyard oasis useable well into the evening hours, but will also add safety and security to your little piece of heaven. Lite Visions Landscape Lighting can add professional landscape lighting from creating shadows with downlighting in trees, to tiki torches by the pool. Path lighting can create a well lit path into a dark backyard walkway to create safety. We only install the best landscape lighting fixtures available to the professionals. Call us today to get on our schedule as the nights are getting dark earlier and earlier.

As a former lighting designer and lighting technician for bands since he turned 18, Joe searched out the best professional grade landscape lighting fixtures to install at his clients homes and gardens.

I wanted to give my clients the best possible value for their money. Landscape lighting, when designed properly has the ability to change and enhance your outdoor landscaping completely.

Lite Visions landscape lighting is an artistically based design company and we might take more time and perhaps a few visits to make certain to visualize all the options for each clients unique situation. We do this by choosing a few fixtures which we can control the lumen output on as well as the optics for each specific lighting need to turn your home and outdoor area’s into your own personal resort oasis. Contact us today and see why Lite Visions Landscape Lighting in Raleigh outshines the competition.

 

Lite Visions Landscape Lighting Inc

919-518-9950

BACKYARD PATIO AREA IN RALEIGH NC
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 A great local landscaping company in the Raleigh area https://www.carolinalandscapes.net/about/

VISION IS MORE POWERFUL THEN HISTORY

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A FEW BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPE LIGHTING BACKDROPS

Vision is more powerful than history,In meeting with a client with a beautiful home yesterday I found this out. I receive many calls in relation to taking out old landscape lighting systems.
Potential clients only know what they have seen done when they have an old lighting system that they have looked at daily in the evening for many years. 

My job as a lighting designer is to talk about my unique vision for their project.
After walking the property with my potential client and explaining why having a bunch of pathlight fixtures lighting the edges of their beautiful water feature with several places where water falls was probably not the best way to illuminate it.
I then talked about the kit lights shooting across the pond and replacing them with lights under the falling water stones to highlight each area to create a much different effect on the three falls.
 

We looked at also creating a backdrop behind the water feature, creating reflections in the water feature from the uplit plants and removing even more pathlights along a beautiful stone ledge wall to accent the architectural features properly.
I then asked my potential client to turn around and imagine looking out those large windows of the home at the picture we just talked about creating in the background and how nice it would be in the evenings .
A lighting designers job is to create a 3 dimensional picture for the potential client to enjoy their space in the evening hours.

Lite Visions Landscape Lighting ,Raleigh North Carolina

Imagine your personal resort oasis

 

Association of outdoor lighting professionals member since 2018

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Working with shadows and light to create unique art

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Creating art and shadows and light to create unique art makes a true lighting designer. I work in many subdivisions and drive out in the late evenings after doing a nighttime adjustment of a landscape lighting system I just installed and I see many BAD lighting jobs.

So many people who install outdoor landscape lighting are not lighting designers but instead fixture salespeople who do not understand certain objects should not be lit flat with just one light.Your eyes see things in the daytime with the sun coming thru them and creating shadows on the ground and on your home and other objects.

You see things in 3d,not flat. I understand that and design your lighting system to make things beautiful and to create works of art at night with your lighting and property. Some of the photos below are examples of that. Call us Today to see your home and property in a whole new light.

Lite Visions,we do one thing and do it right. When Lite Visions Landscape Lighting’s owner Joe decided to go from lighting up the stars to lighting under the stars in Raleigh NC ,he knew lighting would be his only focus.

As a former lighting designer and lighting technician for bands since he turned 18, Joe searched out the best professional grade landscape lighting fixtures to install at his clients homes and gardens.

I wanted to give my clients the best possible value for their money. Landscape lighting, when designed properly has the ability to change and enhance your outdoor landscaping completely.

Lite Visions landscape lighting is an artistically based design company and we might take more time and perhaps a few visits to make certain to visualize all the options for each clients unique situation. We do this by choosing a few fixtures which we can control the lumen output on as well as the optics for each specific lighting need to turn your home and outdoor area’s into your own personal resort oasis. Contact us today and see why Lite Visions Landscape Lighting in Raleigh outshines the competition.

www.litevisions.com           Raleigh’s Outdoor Landscape Lighting Experts

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Association of outdoor lighting professionals member  https://aolponline.org/

 

Lite Visions Landscape Lighting,We do one thing and do it Right

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Lite Visions Landscape Lighting, we do one thing and do it right. When Lite Visions Landscape Lighting’s owner Joe decided to go from lighting up the stars to lighting under the stars in Raleigh NC, he knew lighting would be his only focus.

As a former concert and stage lighting designer and lighting technician for bands since he turned 18, Lite Visions Landscape Lighting’s owner Joe searched out the best professional grade landscape lighting fixtures as well as cables and connect methods to install at his client’s homes and gardens. Joe also had many lighting vendors reach out to him due to his concert and stage lighting background and found only a handful of these companies who would stand up to his testing in the field.

I wanted to give my clients the best possible value for their money. Outdoor Landscape lighting, when designed properly has the ability to change and enhance your outdoor landscaping and homes architecture completely in the evening hours. While there are many people who do numerous things and claim they can install landscape lighting, we too often drive thru these areas in the evening and see the many poor lighting installs with no real lighting design involved, many times we are called in a year or so later to FIX others poor lighting installs.

Joe also sided up with a few mentors he found in the landscape lighting industry and chose to pick their brains in landscape lighting, from one mentor who traveled to Italy to work with the Designer Valentino on his estate to another who worked with several celebrity clients to make their property into a beautiful evening showcase. Joe also works with a few manufactures every year on a continuing education in the landscape lighting industry, helping give back to others in lighting industry.

Lite Visions landscape lighting is an artistically based design company, while we might take more time and perhaps a few visits to make certain to visualize all the options for each client’s unique situation. We do this by choosing a few fixtures which we can control the lumen output on as well as the optics for each specific lighting need to turn your home and outdoor areas into your own personal resort oasis. Contact us today and see why Lite Visions Landscape Lighting in Raleigh NC outshines the competition.

Www.litevisions.com

919-518-9950

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There are technicians, and there are artists – and Joe is an artist

From lighting up the stars to lighting under the Stars

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Lite Visions Landscape Lighting is not your average run of the mill lighting designer. Joe has went From lighting up the stars to lighting under the Stars.

Light Visions has over 35 years in the live entertainment industry ,working on many different types of projects from helping to illuminate a symphony to the Christmas sensation the Trans Siberian Orchestra.

We use many of the same theatrical techniques to create a beautiful,yet very softly illuminated scene for your property that creates a beautiful backdrop for you to enjoy in the evening hours. Lite Visions Landscape Lighting takes pride in our custom lighting design work and while we primarily work in the Raleigh NC area,we have illuminated clients homes from the coast to the mountains and even as far away as Las Vegas.

Unfortunately, many people in our industry do simple cookie cutter jobs that a lighting rep showed them how to do.That usually means lighting one thing with one fixture one sided with no knowledge of lamp types ,shielding the light or any real design other than sticking a fixture in the ground.

We are very proud to be chosen by Coastal Source to be an installer for their concert quality outdoor audio systems in 2022.

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Contact Lite Visions Landscape Lighting today to get on our schedule

www.litevisions.com

Lite Visions Landscape Lighting Raleigh North Carolina

From lighting up the stars to lighting under the Stars