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Outdoor Lighting, One of the Best Investments You Can Make in Raleigh NC
Outdoor Lighting is one of the Best Investments
a Homeowner Can Make
One of the fastest and easiest ways to boost your curb appeal and show off the beauty of your Raleigh NC home is to add outdoor lighting in the areas that will provide maximum impact. By highlighting the best features of your home, not only you can be sure it looks its best, even after night falls; outdoor lighting can also be used to show off the other investments you’ve made to improve your curb appeal.
Taking the time to properly light the exterior of your home can showcase your home and call attention to the features you love most, without making expensive changes to the structure of your home or yard.
Highlighting Your Home
with Outdoor Lighting
Some of the changes you make to the exterior of your home won’t even be visible after dark unless you highlight them with your lighting choices. outdoor lighting is one of the least expensive ways to boost curb appeal and makes a big impact on your home’s exterior. With lighting, you can pick out and highlight your home’s best features – while leaving those you’d prefer not to show off or that are in need of attention in the dark.
Show off Your Landscape Features
with Outdoor Lighting
The landscape, garden, even that beautiful statue or water feature will shine after dark if you highlight them with the right lighting. Exterior lighting enhances all the other improvements you’ve made and improves your home’s appeal, even after dark. By highlighting your improvements with up lighting,tree lighting and other lighting effects, you can be sure you get the most from your curb appeal investment.
Outdoor Lighting Boosts
Safety and Security
An investment in outdoor lighting does more than just make your home look great; by illuminating your lawn and yard you make your home a less appealing target to potential burglars and those possibly wishing to do you harm.
Lighting up the areas around windows and doorways and walkways can and will enhance the look of your home and boost your security as well.
Outdoor lighting is about more than crime prevention; by using lights to illuminate walkways and paths, you make your yard safe and easy to navigate. Your family and guests will appreciate being able to navigate the yard and reach your home without safely in the evenings.
Whether you want to enhance your curb appeal, show off the unique features of your yard and home or improve your home’s safety, outdoor lighting can help. Call Lite Visions today at 919-518-9950 to find out how easy it is to make a lasting impression with the right outdoor lighting. We can help you decide what you need to showcase your home’s best features and to give you peace of mind about the safety and security of your home, too.
Outdoor lighting installed on bridge over water feature and walkway providing safety in the evenings.
Call us Today 919-518-9950 Lite Visions Outdoor Lighting and Landscape Lighting Professionals Raleigh NC
Setting Your Raleigh Business Up To Shine With Outdoor Lighting
When the sun is shining and the day is bright, your commercial landscape is at its visible best. Outdoor Lighting can help you bring that same life to your business at night.
Illuminating the grounds of commercial landscapes, buildings, and unique features, is one of our specialties. Knowing what kind of commercial outdoor lighting is needed and the proper placement/installation is important to accomplish the most effective overall look.
These are some of the reasons you should consider having our outdoor lighting designer assist you in your design for your Raleigh businesses outdoor lighting.
Minimize Energy Use While Maximizing Lighting
According to the U.S Small Business Association, lighting can account for 20-50% of a business’s electricity consumption.
Outdoor lights can use a lot more energy than you probably think. If you are still running conventional incandescent outdoor lighting, you are probably paying far more than you should to light your property.
Today’s Green Friendly Energy Efficient Long Lasting LED lamps are capable of delivering the same amount of illumination while cutting energy use by up to 80%. Outdoor lighting can really bring a business to life once the sun sets.
Make Your Business Look It’s Best
It’s the perfect way to give people a much better impression of your business when they drive by or pull up — and is great for attracting new customers.
Beautiful landscape lighting can turn your premises into a sophisticated calling card, just with a few well placed lights or colored LED lights.
Increase The Safety and Security of Your Property
One of the most immediate benefits of adding landscape lighting to commercial properties is the increase in personal safety for employees, customers, and guests.
A commercial lighting designer in Raleigh will strategically place landscape lighting which can help reduces the likelihood of falls and trips, reducing potential liability for commercial property owners.
Enjoy state of the Art Outdoor Lighting
There is a good chance that you do not know about all the options that are available for your Raleigh business. Luckily, at Lite Visions Outdoor Lighting, we only offer top of the line professional grade lighting fixtures and transformers that are extremely reliable and durable.
Lite Visions Outdoor Lighting ’s professional outdoor lighting designer, has the knowledge and experience to design a system tailored to your specific situation. We can help you determine what type of lighting your business needs, whether that means a few lights or a complete lighting system.
Lite Visions Outdoor Lighting proudly serves commercial properties and businesses in Raleigh and the surrounding area. Let us design the perfect outdoor lighting solution for your business today. Email or give us a call at 919-518-9950 for a free estimate!
Soft accent and security lighting for an outdoor patio in Raleigh NC
Outdoor Patio Lighting Raleigh NC
Photos of the lower patio area with brick columns before outdoor lighting.
Night time demo with only 2 different lighting fixtures to demonstrate how the lighting would work and create 3 distinct lighting effects.
Yes that’s right
3 separate lighting effects, by mounting the lights as high as possible on the columns results in an accent effect on the architecture of the brick column.
You also get a nice soft pool of light on the concrete patio area below the column.
The soft pool of light on the concrete reflects itself back up onto the soffits and ceiling panels above to give you a beautiful soft light effect all over the patio area.
This also created some much need security lighting around the back patio area under the homes lower level.
Now isn’t this a much nicer effect than a security flood light or spotlight blinding you out on the patio?
Call us Today 919-518-9950 Lite Visions Outdoor Lighting and Landscape Lighting Professionals Raleigh NC
Ambiance with soft outdoor lighting in Raleigh
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I come from working in a creative field around lighting design and lighting effects my whole life, I sometimes visualize things other people simply can’t. I feel I have been blessed with this gift.
Years ago when I talked to my mom about a privacy fence in the backyard she just said no way. After it was installed, the first thing her and my sister said was WOW, we never really noticed the plant material in the yard.
Yes, I said, do you know why?
We simply took some material and created a backdrop for the plants that were already in place to make them really POP .
We do the very same thing with outdoor landscape lighting. Why would you have beautiful landscaping or hardscaping that you paid good money for only to have it all disappear in the evening hours? By using several different lighting techniques we create depth and dimension and pull your eye away from looking into your neighbor’s yard.
Have you ever noticed a home with all the lights on inside? If your home has outdoor lighting, peoples eyes are pulled away from the inside lights when they see your home with outdoor lighting.
Let us create some outdoor evening ambiance for you to enjoy tonight in the Raleigh area.
Lite Visions outdoor lighting and landscape light can make your home and yard safe secure and beautiful into the evening hours.
Call us today 919-518-9950
What is Outdoor Security Lighting & Why is it Important in Raleigh NC?
Outdoor Security Lighting Raleigh
Security lighting should provide security by discouraging trespassers. A well-lit home is less likely to be broken into.
Outdoor landscape lighting adds beauty and dimension to a home. Lighting is also an integral part of an effective home security system. Outdoor security lighting discourages would-be intruders from targeting your home by increasing the risk of being caught. The best lighting design allows physical detection and facial recognition minimizes hiding spots and increases your sense of safety.
You don’t have to light your home like a football field to feel safe. Over-illumination with floodlights pointed all over can draw unwanted attention to valuable items in your home or business and can cause light pollution. In this guide, we offer an overview of security lighting and simple tips to help you identify potential safety and security risks, select the best security lights, and determine their placement to ensure your safety and security.
A 2007 Washington Post article found burglars search for homes that appear to be unoccupied. Lighting adds an element of surprise and establishes an occupancy pattern that deters intruders from targeting a home in the first place. Residents that use outdoor lighting as part of their security plan significantly decrease their chances of being burglarized.
The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) further explains that good security lighting anticipates potential threats and predators, and increases the means necessary to commit a crime, discouraging would-be criminals from breaking into a home. This security approach is known as target hardening. In other words, the longer it takes to plan and execute a break in, the less likely criminals are to target that home. According to the IES, home security lighting must have the following aims:
- Provide a clear view of the area; including people and objects such as fences, walls and barriers
- Allow facial recognition at a minimum distance of 30 feet
- Make tasks such as finding your keys, retrieving the mail, or walking the dog easier and safer
- Help people avoid criminal threats and/or defend themselves when a threat is perceived
- Enhance your sense of safety when spending time outdoors
Call us Today 919-518-9950 Lite Visions Outdoor Lighting and Landscape Lighting Professionals Raleigh NC
Backyard Lighting Raleigh
Summer is the perfect time for gathering with friends and family. But once that sun goes down is the party over for you? Landscape lighting is the perfect way to extend your living space show off your home, highlight specific features of your property, expand your entertaining space, and revitalize your yard.
Remember, your home is your investment. By adding Outdoor Lighting to your home, you will increase your property value and appearance.
Let Lite Visions show you what your home could look like with our FREE DEMO. Give us a call 919-518-9950. We will enhance your home’s Appearance, Functionality, and Safety.
Here are some reasons why it’s the perfect time to brighten up your yard with landscape lighting:
1. Appearance
The obvious benefit to lighting up your outdoors is the enhancement of your home’s look. Outdoor lights can make the architectural features of your home stand out, creating an enchanting façade after sundown. You can also customize lighting on commercial properties to create an inviting common area along with curb appeal.
What Some of Our Previous Landscape Lighting Customers Have Said About Us:
RAMAKANTH K ★★★★★
Decided to go to NC home show at State Fair Grounds and met Joe. He is very professional and extremely creative. He set up 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.
HOLLY B ★★★★★
Joe did an amazing job with the landscape 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.
RICK FRENCH ★★★★★
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.
MATT HOLMAN ★★★★★
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 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!
SAFETY AND SECURITY
Lite Visions Landscape Lighting of Raleigh truly cared about my landscape lighting installation and Joe even explained why I should be able to look out and appreciate the lighting as a three-dimensional effect, not only should it be seen from the street. I liked the fact that Joe had worked in the concert industry and was a true lighting designer.
We also feel safer with the dusk to dawn control system. My wife and I both drive in from work now to a secured and nicely lit up home in the evening. I feel Live Visions landscape lighting is the best landscape lighting company in Raleigh NC.
Jay R. Henderson NC
2. Functionality
Landscape lighting also plays a pivotal role in the way you use your outdoor space. If you find yourself moving inside once the sun goes down, you could be missing out. After all, there’s no better time to enjoy the cool evening breeze or simply unwind from the stress of a long day. Landscape lighting gives you the ability to extend your living space and your time outside.
3. Safety & Convenience
Although landscape lighting does beautify your yard and all of its important features, it also promotes safety. Home exteriors are full of potential dangers, like stairs, drop-offs, pools and tripping hazards. Lighting can help to prevent falls or other injuries. Illuminating your driveway, walkways and house number helps visitors to arrive safely and makes your home easy to find.
Enjoy your home and backyard in the evening hours this summer with outdoor landscape lighting
We can also fix or upgrade your older outdated lighting system to energy-saving LED lighting
Give us a Call today to see your Home and Yard in a whole new Light 919-518-9950
Designing a landscape lighting system in Raleigh NC
There are many different factors that come into play when designing a professional outdoor lighting system in the Raleigh NC area.
Are we retrofitting an older system?
Are we working on new construction of a project?
Fixture materials, aluminum, brass or copper, any custom finish on path lights.
Are we installing fixtures with a drop in LED bulb or integrated LED fixtures with a longer warranty.
Access to power for transformers and cable runs to fixtures.
Standard control vs smartphone control.
How many feet of low voltage cable have to be run .
Ease of running cable to fixtures
Ease of access behind plant materials walkways etc.
Location of fixtures,ground mount,gutter mount ,tree mount , mounted to brick or stone.
Are we using custom light diffusing filters, louvers or color filters to replicate a moonlight effect?
Are we installing fixtures with color changing lamps?
No two professional outdoor lighting systems are designed alike.
While your neighbor’s home might have only required 14 lighting fixtures to do the front of their home, your home might require 21 lighting fixtures to do the front of the home and the two trees in the front that you love.
If you are budget conscious, we can always try to work with you and install your outdoor lighting project in different phases.
Call us today for your design consultation
919-581-9950
Set Your Business Apart with Architectural LED Lighting
Make Your Property Safer
You want your commercial or industrial property to be as safe as possible, don’t you? Well, architectural lighting will you keep employees and customers protected. Not only will adding architectural lighting help those who walk in and out of your building feel safe when the sun goes down, but it will also help to illuminate features like stairways or doorways and prevent people from tripping and falling on any obstructions. Plus, if your property is better lit, it will deter thieves from striking and give everyone the impression that you care about safety first.
Separate Your Business from Competitors
When running a business, you want to do whatever you can to set yourself apart from other neighboring businesses. There are many ways to do this, but few of them will prove to be as effective as adding architectural lighting around your building. At night, people will have no choice but to look at your property when you have it lit up. Make your property draw the eye with attractive colored lighting or lights that shine on unique fixtures or structural aspects, showing off your property’s features in the best light possible.
Make Your Landscaping Even More Effective
During the day, everyone can see all of the effort that you’ve made to install landscaping that makes your property look great. But once the sun goes down, how many people are missing out on your landscaping when they drive by your property at night? Architectural lighting allows you to show off your landscaping all day and all night long. Plus, when you use LED lighting, you won’t have to use much energy to get these great effects.
As you can see, there are plenty of benefits that will come along with adding architectural lighting to your commercial or industrial property. Lite Visions Landscape Lighting of Raleigh can help you choose the right architectural lighting based on your specific property and its features. Reach out to us today to speak with a representative about the architectural lighting options we have to offer for your business.
Outdoor Lighting ,Do one thing and do it right
I have been working in the music industry since I was 18 years old, being a Roadie for bands and doing lighting. I have always worked in the lighting industry and coming into the world of architectural and outdoor lighting seemed very natural transition to me.
I, however, have NO desire to be a
landscaper, pond builder, hardscaper, irrigation company or a pool company.
I did not simply buy a lighting franchise.
On the other hand, it seems nowadays everyone thinks they can add landscape lighting as a sideline to their existing business. After attending an hour-long manufacture seminar they now a certified lighting designer. Unfortunately, many of the companies are profit driven and encourage these other industries to install lighting as a profit sideline to their existing business.
I drive thru high-end subdivisions all the time at night after leaving a job location and focusing the client’s lights after dark, I see all kinds of badly done lighting installations that someone paid a lot of money for. From just the other night seeing an entrance to a subdivision that has lights pointing in your eyes as you drive by with no lighting shields to seeing a water feature at a Japanese steakhouse I eat at on a regular basis have a pond company install a bad lighting job.
Being able to simply stick a lighting fixture in the ground by no means makes you a lighting designer
Lighting is an Art and I believe I am painting with light, by knowing the proper use of different types of bulbs, beam spreads, wattages ,color temperatures. There are many many tips and tricks to keep lights your of your eyes.
I might use a combination of lights up in a tree pointing down with a moonlight lens filter along with a combination of path lights to create a unique vision for your walkway.
I might create a backdrop in your backyard to not only visualize your property but to keep your eye from your neighbor’s property
I might use a combination of different light fixtures along a brick or stone wall to create texture, interest, and shadows.
I might place a few lights at angles alongside a privacy fence to create beams of light dancing in between plant material.
No two projects are alike and that is what makes lighting interesting to me, anyone can stick lights in the ground and believe it or not some of those other companies never even come back at night to properly focus the lighting.
At Light Visions Landscape Lighting of Raleigh, We do one thing and do it RIGHT.
We also offer the best warranty and FREE maintenance contract in the Raleigh area
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