Category: Outdoor Lighting

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Stay Secure: How to Make Your Home Safer with Outdoor Security Lighting

Each year, more than 3.7 million homes are broken into across the country. For each break-in, homeowners have to file insurance claims to help pay for the damage.  While your homeowners’ insurance policy will help cover the cost of repairs or replacement items, it’s far better to prevent the break-in in the first place.

Sure, an alarm system is a great place to start, but that’s not always enough. The easiest way to secure your San Diego home is to improve its outdoor security lighting. Not sure where to start?

Let’s take a look at a few simple ways to boost your home security efforts.

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Seven Outdoor Lighting Tips for Halloween in La Costa, CA

Seven Outdoor Lighting Tips for Halloween in La Costa, CA

Halloween is the second most popular holiday celebrated across the country, with children dressed up in costumes going door-to-door to collect as much candy as they can, it makes total sense. With so many potential visitors, you might be thinking of ways you can spruce up your exterior.

The best home improvement projects are the ones that give you a lot of bang for your buck, especially when it comes to holiday decorating that won’t always be up. Exterior lighting is the way to go when giving your home a spooky upgrade for the season.

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Using Shadows to Create Dramatic Landscape Lighting Effects

Backyard lighting is more than just functional, it can be an art form.

Sure, outdoor lighting has its practical uses, such as lighting gathering spaces and illuminating walkways, but it can achieve those things and more with a little ingenuity.

By creatively placing lighting around your San Diego property, you can create dramatic lighting effects that will impress your guests and highlight features of your yard. With the right techniques, you’ll create an outdoor space that you’ll want to spend more time in when the sun goes down.

Here are some landscape lighting ideas to enhance your property.

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Outdoor Lighting Project in La Jolla, CA

Working in the lighting design field, it is the top priority to make sure that the client gets exactly what he/she wanted… and then some.
With the La Jolla project, we were hired by the property manager (Pim Handgraaf from Handgraaf Estates) and he explained us that the principal was looking to completely overhaul all outdoor lighting fixtures. Since the completion of the house 15 years ago, most of the light fixtures were falling from trees, broken or so heavily oxidized due to the proximity to the ocean, that they barely functioned. Meaning there was a lot of work to be done.

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Bistro Lights and Pergolas: Patio String Light Ideas to Brighten Up Your Backyard

From festive cocktail parties to your kid’s first T-ball game win, the backyard is a place to make memories. Do you want those photos to have a lackluster mud pit as their backdrop or a magazine-ready outdoor living space?
Some simple and inexpensive touches can make your backyard the oasis it was always meant to be. By putting together some wood and great lighting, you’ll have a family space that is as impressive as the rest of your home.
Here we give you our ideas on sprucing up your yard and making it fun with patio string light ideas to set the scene.

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