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Showcase Your Home in Raleigh NC with Landscape Lighting

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Showcase Your Home with Landscape Lighting

  

By: Jason Sponzilli, CLVLT
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Strategically placing landscape lighting throughout your property is an essential part of showcasing your home. Illuminating your exterior allows neighbors and guests to share in the design and style you have created in your outdoor space. Whether inserting lights by a green screen of evergreens or highlighting one particularly beautiful tree in your yard, creating a lighting design that complements your home and suits your lifestyle provides a welcoming and safe entrance for family and guests.

Adding exterior lighting to your landscape design increases the amount of useable space that you and your family can share. Imagine doubling the size of your livable space by utilizing your outdoor areas well into the evening hours!

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Introducing low-voltage, energy efficient lights to your backyard and patio can create a variety of settings throughout your landscape. Visualize a family-friendly patio with a wood burning stove, pizza oven, putting green, water feature, and comfortable lounge seating. Or envision a backyard oasis that spotlights your spectacular pool, pergola, fire pit, lush plantings, and intimate spa. Appropriate lighting enables you and your family to use your sport court for practice or recreation long after the sun goes down. Illuminating your backyard, walkways or paths, side yards, and driveway spaces creates more versatile outdoor spaces and leaves a lasting impression.

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Properly positioned lighting not only highlights the features of a home, it offers a higher level of safety for the people you care about most. Icy sidewalks and driveways are dangerous but proper lighting can make them safer to negotiate during the winter months. Pesky deer and rodents can be deterred by placing motion sensors on some of your landscape lighting to give the illusion that they may be spotted. Dark pathways in side and backyards can also be lit for safe use.

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A good landscaper uses many techniques such as silhouetting, shadowing, up lighting, and cross lighting — even moon lighting and more. A good design can highlight features you want to highlight and hide features you don’t. Allow the beauty of your home to shine anytime and be the envy of your neighborhood. The secret is in the design.

Soft accent and security lighting for an outdoor patio in Raleigh NC

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Outdoor Patio Lighting Raleigh NC

Photos of the lower patio area with brick columns before outdoor lighting.

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Night time demo with only 2 different lighting fixtures to demonstrate how the lighting would work and create 3 distinct lighting effects.

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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?

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Call us Today 919-518-9950 Lite Visions Outdoor Lighting and Landscape Lighting Professionals Raleigh NC

Good Vs Bad Outdoor Lighting Design

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Today’s blog is going to talk about things we have seen driving in the evening from installing a lighting installation.

Here is the first example below of good and bad lighting placements, the fixture in the grass will be beaten up by lawn maintenance and equipment and will not last very long in that area. Path lights should be installed in a mulched bed or walkway to not only use them properly for their effect but also to protect them from landscapers and equipment. Also notice you do not see the lamp source only a soft pool of lighting with good lighting. You should never see the bulb or glare in a lighting fixture if the lighting is properly designed with the correct fixtures.

  • Bad Design Fixture In Grass
  • Good Design Fixture Protected
  • Good Design and Path Lights provide safety light

DO NOT place lights under windows ever,this not only looks bad but will also cause lighting to spill into windows and cause a glare so you can’t see out of your windows. A lighting designer would never install lights under a window. As a lighting designer we use several filters and know the difference in lamp color temperatures.

  • Waste of money lighting under windows
  • Notice architecture softly lit with no glare from windows. pathway also lit softly

Transformer placement, shiny aluminum transformers should be hidden behind plant materials or placed alongside other mechanical equipment,Transformers should never be seen in plain sight in front of a home or building.

  • Ugly transformer job
    and even lit up at night

  • Transformer well hidden out of sight behind plant materials
  • Do you see the transformer ?

Call or contact us today if you want your outdoor lighting design done right the first time.

919-518-9950

a few outdoor lighting photos from Cary NC

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Architectural columns with outdoor lighting in Prestonwood Country Club  Cary NC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A pathway lit up with moonlighting in trees as well as a few path lights,outdoor lighting Cary.

 

 

outdoor  lighting going into a beautiful stone set of steps in Cary

 

Front of a home lit with outdoor lighting in Cary.

 

Rear of a home in Cary with outdoor lighting.

Call us Today 919-518-9950 Lite Visions Outdoor Lighting and Landscape Lighting Professionals Raleigh NC

working with a lighting designer and planning to enjoy your home and lifestyle after the sun goes down

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As an outdoor landscape lighting designer in Raleigh NC, we work with Triangle area homeowners to determine how you enjoy your outdoor space, particular features or a structure that you would like to highlight. What you like most about your homes architecture, specific trees or plant you like. A walkway or path you would enjoy or use more if it was illuminated. A  favorite pond or water feature. Features you love most in your outdoor kitchen or along your hardscaping.

 

 

Accent outdoor lighting  gently grazing the surface of the stone, stucco, and brick will add depth and dimension your home’s architecture as well as showing the features

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Adding outdoor lighting to such things as an arbor, fence a statue or structure and trees will give you a dramatic and attention-getting visual lighting effect, creating a lighting scene with a backdrop as well as mimicking moonlights natural effects.

 

 

Water feature outdoor lighting.

Illuminating a water feature, pond or pool combines 2 effects, you might have some trees or plantings near the water that will look interesting with up lighting. You also get stunning mirrored images on the water’s surface, creating dreamlike effects rippling across the water’s surface.

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Add outdoor lighting and illuminate a bridge over a water feature to highlight it’s features and create safety

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Adding path or walkway outdoor lighting will create a sense of security along stone pathways and lawn walkways as well as adding a hint of intrigue to plant beds and boulders along the way.

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Adding down lighting with lights placed up in trees shining thru the trees creates stunning shadows on the ground below mimicking moonlighting effects.

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Patio and deck outdoor lighting will feature and accentuate all of the architecture, beauty and detail of your deck, patio, outdoor kitchen, hand railings, steps and more while creating safety.

 

Hardscape outdoor lighting brings out your stone features along with your outdoor kitchen, retaining walls, steps and more.

 

Call us Today 919-518-9950 Lite Visions Outdoor Lighting and Landscape Lighting Professionals Raleigh NC

 

Lite Visions Landscape Lighting at the Raleigh Fairgrounds Home Show

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Nice blog about Lite Visions Landscape Lighting on The Raleigh Fairgrounds Fall Homeshow page

 

EXHIBITOR SPOTLIGHT: LIGHT VISIONS LANDSCAPE LIGHTING

Aug 22, 2018

We’re excited to have Light Visions Landscape Lighting joint us at the Fairgrounds Southern Ideal Home Show. Lite Visions is not a outdoor lighting franchise, but a locally owned outdoor lighting design and installation company. They pride themselves on delivering the best LED Outdoor Fixture, workmanship and customer service to our clients in Raleigh and the surrounding areas. They do custom outdoor lighting to both residential and commercial properties.

Before you see the Light Visions team at booth #2129 get a sneak peek at what they’ll be bringing to the show by reading our brief interview below.

Describe your products and services.
Outdoor Landscape and Architectural Lighting Design and Installation done right by someone who worked in the concert and live music industry for over 30 years as a lighting technician and lighting designer.

What are your best home or garden tips for this season?
As a lighting designer, I work with homeowners in and around the Raleigh NC area to determine how you enjoy your outdoor space, particular features or a structure that you would like to highlight with outdoor lighting. What you like most about your homes architecture, specific trees or plant you like. A walkway or path you would enjoy or use more if it was illuminated. A favorite pond or water feature. Features you love most in your outdoor kitchen or along your hardscaping that would look great with outdoor lighting.

What are your featured items this season?
I am installing a new series of lighting this season designed by an architectural company. The lights are groundbreaking in the fact that not only can you adjust the beam spread and angle, but you can also adjust the wattage output and color temperature of the lights to the right temperature no matter what type of surface you are lighting. These fixtures give off a very soft subtle lighting effect. Too many outdoor lighting companies tend to over light a home. As always I am offering a discount to anyone who signs up for a lighting quote at my booth during the show. My company is different I am different in the fact that I am the lighting designer and installer.

What are your home or garden pet peeves?
People who only light items one sided and have no design knowledge or thoughts of the customer seeing this flat lighting effect when they pull up to their home, but not being able to see it from the home itself. Example a beautiful Crepe Myrtle or Riverbirch tree light from the front with only one light. A tree should always be lit up 3 dimensional to bring out it’s structure and beauty.

What is the strangest client request you’ve ever received?
I get people who don’t understand what I do and sometimes I will get requests to install floodlights over a garage.

What is your favorite part about the home show?
I love meeting people and talking to new potential customers, it seems alot of people are building outdoor kitchens. I try to give alot of advice to people remodeling or building as I want to make sure they are prepared as they deal with the builders, electricians stone contractors etc. to make adding their outdoor lighting as easy as possible for them. I am working right now on a project at Hyco lake near Roxboro on a amazing outdoor kitchen for a customer I met at the last home show.

Any additional company info you’d like to include?
I feel I bring something different to outdoor lighting as I come from a concert lighting background, from working with local bands such as the Embers right out of school to local recording acts Glassmoon and Nantucket to working huge arena concerts such as Kool and The Gang, Joan Jett, Alan Jackson, Tim Mcgraw, Dan Fogelburg, 3 Doors Down, Whitney Houston to the Christmas sensation Trans Siberian Orchestra. I still do a few concerts now and then and also work at the Memorial Auditorium venues when I can.

I do maintenance on older existing systems as well as LED retrofits. I am a member of the Association of Outdoor Lighting Professionals a small group of professionals who are some of the best in the business.

The Fairgrounds Southern Ideal Home Show will be taking over the North Carolina State Fairgrounds September 21-23, 2018. With hundred of home improvement experts to speak with, like the team at Light Visions Landscape Lighting, this is a must attend event. What are you waiting for? Get your tickets now!

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Lite Visions Landscape Lighting Google Reviews

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Lite Visions – Landscape Lighting Raleigh
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Thomas Jones

Thomas Jones
1 review
a month ago
I am so pleased with my new lighting, installed last week by Joe after laying out the demo and design.
The fixtures are beautiful, high quality, and the outdoor lights look amazing at …More

Pat Sullivan

Pat Sullivan
1 review
3 months ago
Love our new outdoor landscape lighting, Joe and Lite Visions are the best you will ever find. I have never dealt with a more precise person. Joe went out of his way to do a full night lighting demonstration for us and explain everything …More
Response from the owner3 months ago

Thanks Pat for allowing me do your lighting,I enjoyed meeting and speaking with you and your wife at the home show and can’t wait to do the back water feature.

Kathy Blair

Kathy Blair
2 reviews
3 months ago
‭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 …More
Response from the owner3 months ago

Thanks Kathy , I am looking forward to adding some lighting at your home soon.

Rick French

Rick French
1 review
3 months ago
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 …More
Response from the owner3 months ago

Thanks Rick, I feel so fortunate to have been able to light your home’s beautiful architectural features that remind me of something that might have been seen in Greece or Italy.

Matthew Holman

Matthew Holman
3 reviews
3 months ago
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
Response from the owner3 months ago

Thanks Matt, for the kind words and for allowing me to light up your beautiful home. It is always a pleasure to work with customers who truly appreciate what I do. I try to treat people like I would want to be treated and the look on your face when we first looked at the patio lights made it all worthwhile.

Ramakanth Kodumagulla

Ramakanth Kodumagulla
2 reviews
4 months ago
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.
Response from the owner4 months ago

Thanks Rama,it was very nice meeting you and your wife and getting the chance to light your beautiful home. I am looking forward to being a part of the new outdoor patio installation later this year.

Phil Walters

Phil Walters
1 review
4 months ago
Lite visions landscape lighting of Raleigh just finished a beautiful lighting job at my residence in Raleigh. I got Joe’s info from a neighbor whose house he had just lit and I am loving our new outdoor lighting. I was impressed with Joe’s …More

Cary Golfer

Cary Golfer
1 review
2 months ago
A neighbor had recommended Joe and Lite Visions Landscape Lighting in Raleigh to us. Joe spoke with me on the phone,came by one afternoon looked around the property,he then came back and absolutely convinced me he was the only person for …More

Holly Bishop

Holly Bishop
3 reviews
3 months ago
Joe did an amazing job with the lanscape 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.
Response from the owner3 months ago

Thanks Holly, I appreciate the fact that you and Matt saw my night demo and liked it so much you decided to have me do your backyard lighting. People like you guys who appreciate my creativity make it all worthwhile. Thanks

Bob Johnson

Bob Johnson
1 review
5 months ago
Lite Visions Landscape Lighting of Raleigh recently did our homes outdoor lighting and we could not be more pleased with the outcome. Joe is a true lighting designer and a lighting artist and made our home and landscaping look great in the …More

Robert Hammond

Robert Hammond
4 reviews
3 months ago
If you want landscape lighting you can be the envy of your neighbors call Joe, he will make it happen. I don’t think there is anything he can’t do with accent and lighting, very professional.
Call Lite Visions today for your outdoor lighting project needs 919-518-9950

 Raleigh Fall Ideal Home Show Outdoor Lighting

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Make sure to stop by Lite Visions Landscape Lighting’s booth# 2129 at the Raleigh Fall Ideal Home Show

Sep 21-23, 2018 – North Carolina State Fairgrounds
Stop by and fill out a contact form for a show discount on your outdoor lighting installation

WiFi Control Modules To Control Indoor or outdoor lighting Raleigh

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We are now using and installing wifi sockets for some outdoor lighting installations that plug into any outlet.

 

These small modules are easy to setup and program right into your homes wifi signal, you can easily program indoor lamps to come on when your outdoor lights come on.

Imagine pulling up to your dark home and being able to turn lights on by simply touching the app on your phone.

Most any item that plugs into an outlet can be controlled with these small modules.

Use your smart phone and turn on your lamps when you leave work late or to simply turn on lights so the animals won’t be left at home in the dark if you are running late.

The app has several different ways to program your lights on a schedule or simply turn them on and off right from your phone.

One customer has 2 window unit air conditioners programmed to come on in the afternoons to help keep his home cool with his central units.

Turn your lamps On or Off with one touch on your phone app, when going to bed or in the middle of the night.

Never touch a lamp twist button again.

Call or contact us thru the website to find out more about these modules and how they simplify your life

   919-518-9950

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