Southern Ideal Home Show

Posted on March 27, 2019March 27, 2019 by admin in Landscape Lighting

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EXHIBITOR SPOTLIGHT: LITE VISIONS LANDSCAPE LIGHTING INC.

Feb 12, 2019

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 offer a show discount of 5% off any lighting design and installation within 30 days of the home show. 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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Posted on February 24, 2019January 24, 2019 by admin in Landscape Lighting, Outdoor Lighting

Outdoor Lighting, One of the Best Investments You Can Make in Raleigh NC

Posted on February 24, 2019January 24, 2019 by admin in Landscape Lighting, Outdoor Lighting

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

Creating a private escape in your own backyard

Posted on February 23, 2019January 24, 2019 by admin in Landscape Lighting

Beautiful landscaping, a backyard patio area, and a water feature already highlight your backyard space. Perhaps even a walled privacy fence with some beautiful plant material in front of it. Could life be any better?

The answer is yes, with outdoor landscape lighting you cannot only enjoy that area into the evening hours, but with the right lighting, you can create your own personal backyard escape.

Imagine walking down your newly illuminated pathway with a glass of wine enjoying the moonlit effect heading down to the softly lit gazebo to chill out and listen to the crickets and frogs singing beside the now artfully highlighted bridge over your water feature.

You sit back, enjoy your glass of wine and ask yourself why you did not do this eight years ago. Life is good in your new private backyard escape.

Showcase Your Home in Raleigh NC with Landscape Lighting

Posted on February 21, 2019January 24, 2019 by admin in Landscape Lighting, Outdoor Lighting

Showcase Your Home with Landscape Lighting

AOLP September 17, 2018

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!

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.

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.

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

Posted on February 20, 2019February 18, 2020 by admin in Landscape Lighting, Outdoor Lighting, outdoor lighting professionals raleigh

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

Posted on February 19, 2019February 18, 2020 by admin in Landscape Lighting, Outdoor Lighting, outdoor lighting professionals raleigh

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?

Posted on February 18, 2019February 18, 2020 by admin in Landscape Lighting, Outdoor Lighting, outdoor lighting professionals raleigh

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

Posted on February 17, 2019February 18, 2020 by admin in Landscape Lighting, Outdoor Lighting, outdoor lighting professionals 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

Best Landscape Lighting Company Raleigh

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

Posted on February 16, 2019February 18, 2020 by admin in Landscape Lighting, Outdoor Lighting, outdoor lighting professionals raleigh

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