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Increasing Curb Appeal & Value

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As Austin continues to grow, the demand for homes for sale is high. According to the Statesman, experts expect another strong year for Austin housing market. If you are looking to sell your home, how can you set your property apart from the next?

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Outdoor lighting can enhance the curb appeal and even possibly increase the value of your home or property. According to the National Association of Home Builders, over 40% of home buyers they surveyed listed outdoor lighting features as “essential”. Lighting is a key part of a building’s appearance. During daylight hours everyone gets the full effect, but once the sun starts to set, all the details and aspects of the property that made it so appealing disappear into the darkness. LED landscape lighting can transform the look of your property at night. Outdoor lighting will highlight structural features like pathways, fire pits, water features, fencing and more. If you have outdoor patios, decks or other outdoor living spaces, those will also be included in the overall lighting design.

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When you drive through a neighborhood at night, chances are the homes that stand out most are those where lighting plays an important role. Adding light to any outdoor space enhances its beauty. This applies especially to the landscape of your house. By highlighting your lawn, the walkway, and any other aesthetics, you make your house more pleasing to the eye, and in the process, increase its market value. Professionally installed, subtle lighting can even make the space appear larger. 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 wishing to do you harm. Lighting up the areas around windows and doorways can enhance the look of your home and boost your security as well.

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Simply put, shedding some light on the exterior features of your house and property adds to the beauty a potential buyer experiences. Let Texas Outdoor Lighting send one of our award winning designers out to your property to increase your curb appeal!

Making the Switch from Halogen to LED

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We have seen a lot of changes and progress within the lighting industry over the past decade. As with everything these days, newer technology and efficiency is developed and becomes available over time. An outdoor lighting system installed many years ago may be becoming old or even obsolete compared to today’s standards.

Halogen bulbs used to dominate the lighting industry. It was not until a few years ago that LED began to take over and become the industry standard. Now, it has become the choice of many outdoor lighting designers.

A few of the advantages of using LED vs Halogen are:

  • Longer Lifetime
  • More Durable
  • Low Energy Consumption
  • Easy to replace
  • They do not attract insects because LED lights emit very little heat and UV light
  • Much more cost effective

In these photos, you can see the before and after of a parking garage that Texas Outdoor Lighting converted from Halogen to LED.

Before Photo of a parking garage using halogen lights in Horseshoe Bay TexasAfter Photo of a parking garage switching to LED lights in Horseshoe Bay Texas

If we haven’t convinced you yet of all the benefits of making the switch to LED, read this article from the Washington Post. Many manufacturers have stopped carrying Halogen light bulbs making it harder and more expensive to replace your bulbs.

Texas Outdoor Lighting offers free consultations to see if we can convert your current lighting system to LED, or one of our designers can work with you to design your dream lighting system. Give us a call today to schedule! (512) 504-3030

Garage Lighting: Curb Appeal and Safety

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The garage can play an important role in increasing your home’s curb appeal.  Unfortunately, it can also be an easy target for thieves.  A comprehensive landscape lighting design can enhance the beauty of your garage and boost curb appeal while deterring potential intruders.

The garage may not seem like a high priority when creating a landscape lighting design.  You’ll want to consider, however, whether your garage is the focal point of your home’s curbside view and if it has interesting architectural features. 

Up and down lighting can both help showcase stonework, brick, architecture and the garage doors themselves.  While up lighting garage doors is easiest when the landscape lighting company collaborates with the builder before the concrete is poured, Texas Outdoor Lighting can core into already established driveways to get the same great lighting effect.

A combination of different lighting techniques such as up lighting, down lighting, column lighting, dormer lighting, soffit lighting, and nearby tree lighting can help illuminate the unique aspects of the garage doors while keeping your property safe.  Our award-winning lighting designers can help you develop a comprehensive landscape lighting plan to keep your safety, security and the beauty of your home in mind so contact us now for a free consultation.

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hardscape Outdoor Lighting

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Do you want outdoor lighting on your established home but are concerned it can’t happen due to your hardscaping?  Here at Texas Outdoor Lighting, our installation manager and technicians have professional experience installing lighting systems in hardscaping.  Installing outdoor lighting in hardscaping takes precision and that is what we focus on every day here at Texas Outdoor Lighting.

Hardscape outdoor lighting will add dramatic lighting effects to retaining walls and other masonry around your property.  We can install lights under the top lip of concrete, stone or masonry walls to light the walkways along entrances, around pools and to your outdoor living areas.

 Frequently, we add lighting in hardscaping to light the front facade of homes and garage doors for safety and security.  

 

 

The lights we use in hardscaping have a simple elegance and smooth flowing edges designed to complement stonework, concrete, masonry and other architectural elements.

 

Contact Texas Outdoor Lighting today and ask how we can use our innovative techniques to add outdoor lighting in your hardscaping areas.

In the meantime, browse our gallery for more lighting ideas.