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Transform Your Nights (Lighthouse Landscape Lighting®)
Creating immersive landscape lighting experiences that make spaces unforgettable. Lighthouse Outdoor Living® is renowned for its ability to completely transform the outdoor living experience. With a unique blend of landscape lighting, high-fidelity audio, and stunning...
Fairyland Is Just Beyond Your Windowsill (Lighthouse Landscape Lighting®)
Continuing an innovative tradition of landscape lighting with a history that dates back to the 1920s. Lighthouse Landscape Lighting® is not just in the business of illuminating outdoor spaces; they are in the business of transforming ordinary backyards into enchanting...
Choosing the Right Path Lights: Enhancing Outdoor Spaces with Landscape Lighting Design
Path lights play a crucial role in landscape lighting design, offering both functional and aesthetic benefits. These fixtures guide and illuminate pathways, ensuring safe navigation during nighttime hours. Selecting the correct path lights involves considering various...
Outdoor Safety: Lightning Strikes and LED Lights ProtectionLightning and Electrical Surges
Lightning strikes are among nature’s most powerful forces, capable of causing extensive damage to outdoor lighting systems, particularly LED lights. Despite their efficiency and durability, LED lights are vulnerable to electrical surges generated by lightning, which...
Lighting Deck Steps Properly
Safety is always priority #1 for us when designing outdoor landscape lighting systems. Steps leading from a deck to a yard can be some of the most dangerous areas to negotiate in the dark, especially if you are a guest and not as familiar with the property. Some...
Tree Mounted Lights — Top Tips for Preventative Maintenance
Moonlighting is an effect that is achieved by placing lights high in the canopies of trees and pointing them to the ground through branches and leaves to create a dappled, moonlight effect on the ground below. This is a very beautiful lighting technique, but one that...
Lighting Art/Statuary in the Garden Space
When designing an overall lighting plan for a garden space or an outdoor living area, one should always consider pieces of art or garden statuary in their designs. Art pieces are very personal and subjective items that are presented in all shapes, sizes and colors and...
Lighthouse Mini Wash Light – Small Fixture, Big Effects
At Lighthouse Outdoor Lighting, we specify and use a lot of different LEDs and fixture types to fit the task of a diverse range of lighting effect needs. One of our favorite fixtures is the compact mini wash light. This particular fixture has a ton of uses...
Landscape and Architectural Lighting are the Best Deterrent to Home Invasion
Most people invest in outdoor lighting for their home because it makes their home and property beautiful, but did you know one of the primary benefits landscape lighting produces is a home and property that is much more secure? It is a proven statistical fact...
Top 5 Things to Know About Landscape Lighting for Your Business
Do you want more brand recognition, a better customer experience, or an increase in sales? Outdoor lighting for your business has many benefits. It draws people in, keeps them comfortable, and makes them want to come back. When installing landscape lighting for your...