Fall is the Right Time for Outdoor Lighting!

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Even if we hate to admit it, summer is officially over! That means you have to pack up the grill, pull the plug on the outdoor lighting and completely forget about your landscape until next spring, right? Wrong! When the weather gets cooler and the days get shorter, people tend to focus on indoors, but this is the best time of year to enjoy your outdoor lighting and get the best use out of it!

Fall is an ideal time to have your landscape lighting done. In the summer, the days are so long that we only really get to enjoy our lights for a short time each night. We are lucky in the fall: the turning of the season, the cooling air, colored leaves and shortening days all mean its time to throw on a sweater and step out onto the patio to enjoy the season!

 

This patio outdoor lighting is amazing

There is never a bad time for outdoor lighting. But there is a best time for outdoor lighting, and that’s now. Longer nights mean more time for your landscape lighting features to do what they do best — illuminate your beautiful home and landscape.

Decorative lighting

While it can still be quite warm in fall, evenings can get chilly. Create a warm, welcoming environment in your outdoor entertaining areas by adding uplights, downlights or sconces that provide just the right amount of light to warm up the space. Another great option of lighting to make your outdoor living space POP with all your fall entertaining is to add some café lights! Work with one of our amazing outdoor lighting designers to use landscape lighting to help create the perfect space for fall entertaining.

These cafe lights outdoor patio lighting pool lighting

 

Want to extend the life of your landscape this fall? Get your outdoor lighting design process started by contacting us directly for a free estimate! (512) 504-3030

Lake House outdoor lighting on Lake LBJ at Log Country Cove

Resort Lighting

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Texas Outdoor Lighting can help you with all of your resort lighting needs. Our highly-efficient LED lighting installations can reduce energy consumption by up to 75%. Whether it be a retro-fit of an outdated system or a new-build plan, Texas Outdoor Lighting offers expert consultation with our design team, the latest technologies and premium fixtures.

Texas Outdoor Lighting can help you create a welcoming experience for every guest. Outdoor, landscape, and accent lighting can make your hotel be noticed and help attract potential customers.

  • New Installation
  • Retrofitting and Maintenance of Existing Systems
  • Exterior Outdoor Lighting on New Construction, Remodels, and Established Buildings
  • Outdoor Lounge Areas, Pools
  • Boat Dock Lighting
  • Parking Garages

Outdoor Lighting at the Horseshoe Bay Resort Yacht Club in Horseshoe Bay Texas

Benefits and Importance of Resort Outdoor Lighting

A great exterior lighting system can add ambiance to a property, but outdoor lighting systems are also important to provide adequate lighting in your parking areas, driveways & pathways, and entrances to make your guest feel secure. A few benefits to having exterior security lighting are:

  • Deter intruders and unwanted animals
  • Prevent accidents, lighting makes it less likely to trip and fall on pathways
  • Increase your curb appeal, lights placed on the ground to shine up at a resort can create an elegant and eye-catching look

Outdoor Lighting at the Horseshoe Bay Resort Yacht Club in Horseshoe Bay Texas

Having your lighting systems retrofitted to LED can be such a huge cost savings. Because LED bulbs last so much longer, properties buy and change fewer bulbs overall. On top of those cost-savings are reductions in energy bills. An LED bulb uses only two-thirds the energy that an incandescent bulb uses, which amounts to a fair amount of energy savings—whether a small or large-scale property. 

Check out our newly added Resort Lighting Gallery to see what Texas Outdoor Lighting can do for your property!

 

Outdoor Lighting: Landscape Renovation Trend

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More homeowners than ever are investing in eco-friendly outdoor projects whether its updating irrigation systems, emphasizing composting or creating an outdoor garden.  John Wyer, an award-winning garden designer, gave predictions on outdoor trends for 2018 and stated that outdoor living spaces with integrated lighting will be a must have feature for residential outdoor living spaces in 2018. 

According to Renee Changnon, the assistant editor for Hardware Retailing magazine, outdoor LED lighting is trending into the realm of a more eco-friendly space as well.  In fact, Changnon states that 9 out of 10 respondents of her study reported substantial renovations or complete outdoor living overhauls and a huge 98.3% were looking to improve the lighting in their outdoor spaces. 

A separate Houzz Landscaping and Garden Trends Study revealed that a majority of homeowners are upgrading their outdoor spaces, with 64% specifically addressing their backyard living areas.  The top three uses of outdoor spaces are relaxing, gardening, and entertaining with outdoor living and beauty as the most valued aspects of outdoor design.  A properly installed and maintained, high quality outdoor LED lighting system can assist in enhancing all of these aspects of outdoor living.

Texas Outdoor Lighting uses top of the line fixtures and LED bulbs.  We also have a full time maintenance staff to take care of all of your lighting maintenance needs.  Visit our website to see more examples of how we can help to transform your outdoor living areas from dark to functional and beautiful.

 

 

 

 

 

The Best Time to Start Planning for Spring Outdoor Lighting

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With only a few more weeks left of winter, spring is just around the corner.  This is the perfect time to start thinking about sprucing up your outdoor living areas.  Today, we are featuring some of our favorite outdoor retreat lighting projects as inspiration to those of you who are considering utilizing outdoor lighting to take full advantage of those areas.  Please keep scrolling to see all of these fun projects.  We hope you enjoy them as much as we do.

Some outdoor projects may involve several contractors and the collaboration between these companies help achieve a flawless installation and meet completion goals. Also, working together helps ensure the installation of materials is efficient and cost-effective.  

Oftentimes, Texas Outdoor Lighting is called in after the garden, landscaping, and hardscaping plans are finished. We are happy to accommodate our clients’ needs regardless of where they are at in the renovation process. Keep in mind, however, it is less expensive and more cost-efficient for our clients when we can get involved before renovations begin.

We understand that most people prefer to tackle one project at a time, but some pre-planning now will help avoid higher costs later on.

If you already have exterior lighting and plan to make some major changes to your landscape or outdoor space, contact us.  From relocating fixtures for a tree removal to adding more lights to maximize your outdoor living space.  We’re here to help.  We’d be happy to provide you with any advice, suggestions, and discuss your outdoor landscape lighting design.