Brass Outdoor Lighting

Outdoor path lighting can be an asset to any home. Properly placed lighting can even add value to a home! So how can you distinguish between what will add value and what will give your path an airport runway effect?

It’s all in the planning, power and placement. Three P’s. Remember them.

Planning For Efficiency is Planning for a Lower Electric Bill:

When planning to incorporate path lights, we think about the usual suspects such as cost, materials and durability. With the rise of the green movement, more and more people have begun to think about efficiency.

How you can get more for your money, with less power is definitely the greener way to go, and with path lighting you have a few options to help you achieve that.

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Power meets Planning:

Low voltage lighting is one very attractive option, especially in comparison to the traditional line voltage lighting because it offers some benefits that the latter doesn’t.

For starters, when appropriately powered, low voltage lighting can supply two and half times more light than traditional incandescent’s (which are nowadays, so antiquated, they’re hardly worth mentioning).

To put it simply, fifty watts of a low volt lamp can outshine the efforts of a hundred-twenty five volt lamp and do it better, saving you more money in the long run.

What’s more, the quality of the light is such that it can be used in both down-lighting and up-lighting.

With this option, whether you want to down-play an unpolished walkway or show off a newly renovated path is entirely up to you.

Another popular and earth friendly option is solar lighting. It’s cost-effective and requires very little maintenance, if you planned for it properly.

What constitutes proper planning for solar lighting?  One thing any potential consumer should consider before going the solar route is the weather.  Really!

While most high quality solar lights will be sensitive enough to charge even in cloudy weather, some regions will be too harsh for even the higher end products to handle.

Know what to expect from your lights before you buy; check with the manufacturer for full details on the range of function for your particular product.

Some will perform better in the summer and shine less intensely in the winter.  In any case, where you place the PV, or photo-voltaic panel, can make a dramatic difference in how efficiently your solar lighting operates.

This panel powers the lights by charging the batteries via solar energy. The average solar light will run for about eight to ten hours every night.

Whatever you choose, consider timers for automated on and off settings. These will also lessen energy consumption, ensuring you have light exactly when you need it and saving power for just that occasion.

Placement, Placement, Placement:

In lighting, placement is as important as location is to real estate.  In fact, if you’re looking to sell or add value to your home, it can be darn near the same thing.  Simple, though perhaps innocent mistakes, like lighting your path in an airport runway fashion, can make a big difference in how your home looks.

A good deal of placement involves paying attention to the nature of the fixture.  Does the light emanate downward lighting only the walkway beneath it? Most path lighting does.

Does the fixture allow some light to shine upwards via sheer or clear glass or plastic?

That considered, spacing in placement can be better strategized.

The runway effect can be remedied or better, avoided altogether, by placing lights on only one side of a walk way or alternating the placement so that lights on either side of a path are not exclusively parallel.

If your fixture produces enough light, you can even outline the shape of your path way in with the lights but place them closer to shrubbery or gravel, leaving a margin of six inches to a couple feet.