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Bright on a Budget: How to Create a Budget for Your Landscape Lighting Project

As a homeowner you want your house to look great at all times, and a well-thought-out landscape and garden can make your house stand out from others on the block. However, landscaping isn’t just about increasing beauty, it’s an investment in your home!

Believe it or not, professionally designed landscaping can add as much as 12.7 percent to your home’s value. This means you’ll be able to get a higher price should you decide to sell your home in the future.

Though plants are often the first things that come to mind, your landscape lighting is just as important. Here are a few landscape lighting tips to help you plan a budget for the perfect

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Light vs Dark: A Guide to Creating a Balanced Landscape Lighting Design

There’s a high level of pride that comes with having a beautiful yard.
During the day you can enjoy a beautiful lawn, decorative shrubs, a wonderful porch or deck, and all the other fabulous features of your yard. However, once the sun goes down, all that hard work goes to waste.
Having the right landscape lights can make your yard the favorite place to be in the evening. It can also bring out the beauty of your yard that you’d never see in daylight.

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Shine Bright: Seven Ideas to Help You Accent Your Trees with Outdoor Lighting

Do you want to make your garden more stunning? Do you want to add accent lighting to the trees in your front yard? A survey found that 78% of American adults have homes with a lawn or landscaping.

While it functions as a pastime for most, it takes work to make the perfect landscaping work for both day and night. One major factor of good landscaping is getting the right outdoor lights for trees.

To make the landscaping interesting at night you’ll need creativity. In this guide, we’ll show you seven tips on getting creative accents for your trees by using lights. 

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Seven Reasons Why You Need to Switch to LED Lighting

The use of LED lighting has become increasingly popular in recent years, and with good reason. LEDs offer an impressive array of advantages over traditional lighting solutions, including better energy efficiency, improved durability, and a longer lifespan – all at a more affordable price than ever before.

From residential homes to commercial spaces like offices, warehouses and even outdoor areas such as stadiums and parks, the benefits of switching to LED lighting are clear.

Here are seven reasons why you should make the switch today.

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Home Theater Lighting Guide: Lighting Ideas for Your Home Theater

When you’re a movie lover, escape from the chaos of the world is as simple as a trip to the theater. What’s even better is that with today’s technology, it’s shockingly easy and increasingly affordable to have a movie theater experience at home.

Widely available virtual reality technology and luxury home theater seating means that many home theaters are even better than the movie theaters in San Diego. Real cinema buffs know that home theater lighting is what makes or breaks the experience. Without the proper home theater light fixtures, you’ll never achieve the professional movie theater ambiance you aim for.

If you’ve never considered home theater lighting design and don’t know where to start, it’s okay! This list of great home theater lighting ideas will help you out.

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The Best Kids’ Bedroom Lighting Ideas for Your Home

Americans spent about $340 billion total on home remodeling in 2018. If you’re planning on making a few updates to your San Diego area home, you might want to break larger projects into smaller, more affordable ones. For example, you might consider taking on your child’s bedroom this year.

A well-lit bedroom is essential. In addition to offering functionality, the right lighting can make a room feel warm, inviting, and homey.

With these kids’ room lighting ideas, you can brighten your children’s bedroom and liven up their environment.

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The Biggest Benefits of Recessed Lighting

When it comes to upgrading your home’s lighting, you have plenty of options to choose from. However, before you start shopping for new lamps or chandeliers, ask yourself whether your entire San Diego home’s lighting system could use an upgrade.
Recessed lighting is a great way to light your space without worrying about endless lamps or mounted lights.
Is recessed lighting worth the trouble of installing it though? Is the cost too much? Here are the biggest benefits you’ll enjoy when you upgrade to recessed lighting.

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Spruce Up Your Dark Interior

When moving into a new space it can sometimes be a challenge to figure out how to brighten a dark room. This is especially apparent if the room doesn’t have many windows or some access to the sunlight, we enjoy most of the year here in the San Diego area. Luckily there are several home decorating hacks that you can do to brighten up a dark room.
Getting the light level just right in your space may appear challenging, but it can also be a lot of fun. It’s also a skill that anyone who works in interior design needs to have. So, if you’ve got a dark room that could use some sprucing up, here are some cool ways to go about doing it.

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Make Your Dinner Party Memorable with These Dining Room Lighting Tips

Lighting is integral to any dinner party; it helps set the mood and create a positive atmosphere. If you use harsh lighting people will leave your party earlier than you want and they’ll be less inclined to return.
It’s important to plan and think about your lighting needs days or weeks before your party. Here is what to look for in dining room lighting so you can throw a stellar dinner party at your San Diego home.

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Great Workshop/Garage Lighting Ideas

The workshop might be the last place you would think staging and beauty matters. Yet lighting isn’t just for making a home look more open and inviting; it’s also the driving factor behind how well your projects turn out.
Workshop lighting matters as much as lighting the inside of your home, if you want your projects to turn out correctly. Special lighting for auto mechanic projects, to under cabinet lighting on a workbench, the fixtures and brightness affect your pace and productivity.
Here are some ideas for making your San Diego area workshop an ideal space, suited to your individual needs.

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