When Is The Right Time To Service Your Landscape Lighting System?
When is the Right Time to Service Your Landscape Lighting System? The importance of outdoor lighting maintenance cannot be overstated. To ensure functionality, as well as safety, of your lighting system, proper and regular servicing is required. In other words, once you have made a significant investment in your outdoor lighting, do not just forget […]
Why Is Hiring A Certified Lighting Technician So Important?
Many homeowners fail to realize the importance of hiring a certified lighting technician and why they are so pivotal to the proper functioning of their outdoor lighting system. They often look for every possible means to save money even if it means doing the job themselves, without adequate knowledge and skills to properly design and install these lighting systems. […]
What Constitutes A Landscape Lighting Professional?
Qualities of An Outdoor Lighting Expert! What makes an outdoor lighting expert? We often receive requests from homeowners to repair or re-install their outdoor lighting system after hiring the services of a supposed ‘lighting professional’. They contact us due to frustration after their ‘lighting professional’ stopped returning calls, or simply closed up shop. Consequently, the homeowners end up paying […]
How To Properly Attach & Maintain Light Fixtures And Wires
Attaching a lighting wire or a fixture to a tree with a staple gun or wrapping the wire around the tree represents both the fastest and the most foolish way to attach a wire to a tree. It also highlights why you should use a certified landscape lighting professional to do the job—expertise, tools and skills that the rest […]
Outdoor Lighting Controls
The landscape lighting industry is undergoing what could be described as a mini-revolution. In the past, controlling an outdoor lighting system was limited as the controller only provided automatic on or off depending on the time of the day (known as the astronomical time switch) or the amount of daylight (photosensor). Typically, fixtures had no individual control, as they […]
Benefits Of Zone Controlled Lighting
How Can I Control My Landscape Lighting System? Outdoor lighting can greatly enhance the safety, security and aesthetic appeal of your home. There are several options available when it comes to controlling landscape lighting, but one of the most recent ones is called the zone controlled system. Generally, a landscape lighting system is controlled at a macro level […]
Security Lighting Doesn’t Have To Be Ugly
The importance of security lighting cannot be overstated as it goes a long way in ensuring your home and family’s safety through crime prevention. However, too much and you’ll create ugly glare inside and out (and start looking for the warden!). Too little, and your neighbors might start describing your house as “the creepy one”. […]
Say Hello To 2023. New Year. New Purpose.
READ ALL ABOUT IT: IN GOOD COMPANY Southern Lights, was featured with about a dozen other professionals in Landscape Architecture Magazine for our work on the Bourbon Bowl in downtown Greensboro. Since 1910, the magazine has featured the best of the best projects and we are honored to have our hometown work featured. Our founder/owner, […]
Introducing A Brand New Product. The Coolest Thing You CAN’T See!
CHECK OUT THE COOLEST THING YOU CAN’T SEE Invisible speakers offer the same great sound you have come to expect from a Southern Lights audio system. In addition, these in-home speakers are designed to disappear! Place your new high-performance speakers in walls or ceilings (behind sheetrock, wall paper, and paint). Obstacles like room configuration, furniture, […]
Proper Use of the Path Light
As we draw closer to the winter months when the days get shorter and darkness sets in before dinner, walking to your front door or getting around the yard can be more difficult. It highlights the need to enhance safety, curb appeal and convenience with walkway and path illumiation. However, the proper utilization of a path light […]
