Spruce up your outdoor spaces with landscape lighting

Are you looking for ways to spruce up your outdoor spaces? Have you considered landscape lighting ? Landscape lighting can take your yard from drab to fab with the right design and installation. In this blog, we’ll talk about the basics of landscape lighting design, the benefits, and some design tips and successful projects.

What is landscape lighting?

Landscape lighting is exactly what it sounds like – it’s lighting designed to highlight your outdoor spaces and provide a warm, inviting atmosphere. It is a carefully crafted art form that requires a good eye and a knack for design. Landscape lighting involves strategically positioning lights and fixtures to create an aesthetically pleasing look that highlights the best features of your outdoor spaces.

The most common type of landscape lighting is low-voltage lighting.

Low-voltage lighting is powered by a transformer that converts the electricity from your home’s power outlet into the low voltage needed for the lights.

LED lighting is also becoming increasingly popular for landscape lighting design as it is more energy-efficient and long-lasting than traditional bulbs. LED bulbs also produce less heat, making them safer for outdoor use. Led also lasts 20 times longer than halogen light sources.

Benefits of landscape lighting

There are several benefits to installing landscape lighting in your outdoor spaces. Here are just a few of them:

  • It adds beauty and charm to your outdoor spaces. The right lighting can make your yard look even more beautiful and inviting.
  • It increases safety. By strategically positioning lights in your outdoor spaces, you can make them safer and easier to navigate at night.
  • It adds value to your home. A well-lit outdoor space can be a major selling point for potential home buyers, increasing the value of your property.
  • It can be a great way to show off your landscaping. With the right lighting design, you can highlight your favorite plants and trees and create a stunning effect.

Examples of successful landscape lighting design projects

Now that you know the basics of landscape lighting design, let’s take a look at some successful projects.

  • One successful project is the lighting design at this home and back yard. The lighting was designed to highlight the beauty of the garden, while at the same time creating a safe and inviting atmosphere.
    The lights were strategically placed to draw attention to the different features of the homes beautiful architectural elements as well as the landscape plantings around the residence.Alt"good lighting design of outdoor spaces in raleigh nc"
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Wow! Just wow!

Wow! Just wow! I cannot say enough good things about Joe and Lite Visions! He installed our new front yard landscape lighting which needed replacing after the original became tired and worn. It is now fabulous! Joe’s artistic vision, service and the quality of the lights he uses are unsurpassed. His company is unique in that he offers so much more than “standard” landscape lighting. No cheap lights. No dotted “runway” looks. No hot spots. Joe knows his lighting and it shows. He took the time to show us a demo which was extremely helpful. We knew exactly what we were getting and how it would look at night! Installation was seamless and professional. We are looking forward to having him redo our back yard now too! Thanks Joe!

 

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Artist Definition

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

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

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Retrofitting landscape lighting systems with energy saving LED Lamps.

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

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landscape lighting VS magical landscape lighting

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.

Lite Visions Landscape Lighting 919-518-9950

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

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Creating a nighttime oasis with landscape lighting

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

 A great local landscaping company in the Raleigh area https://www.carolinalandscapes.net/about/

VISION IS MORE POWERFUL THEN HISTORY

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

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Working with shadows and light to create unique art

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

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

 

Concert lighting and landscape lighting become one to create a unique atmosphere

What do concert and stage lighting have in common with outdoor landscape lighting?

Perhaps not much unless you happen to live in the Raleigh NC area.

Concert lighting and landscape lighting become one to create a unique atmosphere for your home and property with Joe , Lighting Designer and lighting technician as well as a Raleigh native and owner of Lite visions Landscape Lighting comes from a background of many years in the live music and entertainment industry. 

From starting out working with local beach music favorites the Embers to working with such arena acts as Alan Jackson, and Whitney Houston to the Christmas sensation Trans Siberian Orchestra.

Joe had experience as both a lighting technician understanding how things work and troubleshooting things to lighting design and creating scenes and understanding lighting fixtures and lumen output.

Good Landscape Lighting requires many of those same techniques as concert lighting and using those Joe will create a work of art while painting your landscape with illumination. 

Lite visions prides ourself in being different and artistic in our designs and you will rarely see path-lights as part of our lighting designs unless required for walkways not near and trees or plants.

If you want the Best outdoor illumination in the Raleigh NC area, don’t hesitate to contact Lite Visions landscape lighting.

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Vision: it’s not what you look at that matters, but what you imagine can be there.

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