Outdoor Lighting, The extra Edge

Outdoor lighting is designed to bring professional interior design touches to the exterior of your home with its high quality fit and finish; from the front of your home to the backyard, outdoor lights and outdoor light fixtures come in a wide variety of sizes and styles ensuring there is something for everyone's home.

Why Outdoor Lighting?

The main purpose of outdoor lighting is to increase the efficiency of human activities during the night time when there is little to no natural light available. Outdoor lighting enables better work efficiency concerning production, transportation, construction and city beautification amongst many other things.

Outdoor lighting offers safety by lighting up areas where people walk, will ensure the safety in these areas as adding lighting around walkways and stairs prevents unwanted and harmful falls. Positioning lighting around the pool, patio, deck and seating area will provide plenty of lighting to ensure safety. Outdoor lighting is also installed to the surrounding of a home or environmental space to highlight any area of your home or space. By using decorative landscape lighting around various spots, this will transform these areas into the focal points of your outdoor space. The decorative lighting can be positioned around plants, waterfalls, and statues, basically anything you would like to showcase. Landscape lighting adds warmth and appeal to a home. It will show that you care about the appearance of your home and property while also increasing your home’s value.

The most important function outdoor lighting provides is its comfort to your outdoor space. Homeowners can add lighting around the patio and deck and enjoy this space when the sun goes down. It will bring a sense of warmth, along with an inviting and pleasant environment as homeowners can relax and enjoy the night in a lit area.

Outdoor Security Light

In the field of physical security, outdoor lighting is often used as a preventive and corrective measure against intrusions or other criminal activity on a physical piece of property. Outdoor lighting may be installed to aid in the detection and determent of intruders, or in some cases simply to increase the feeling of safety. Lighting is integral to crime prevention through environmental designs.

Outdoor lighting has many purposes and benefits for its homeowners. Its constant provision of safety to your family, friends and all guests will ensure that no one will be hurt while walking on your property. Outdoor lighting will also keep your property safe as it can scare away possible criminals from any activity on your property. There is so much that landscape lighting can provide as its essential purpose in one’s home is unlimited! If one’s outdoor space is dark, then now is the time to think about adding landscape lighting to your property.

Request Motion Detection Outdoor Light

Motion detectors are small electronic eyes that detect infrared waves, they are heat waves that radiate from moving objects. When the detector senses an object moving across its field of view especially warmer objects such as people, animals and cars it electronically turns on the lights.

Motion detector lighting will illuminate when anything or person activates them. If someone walks through your yard, your lights will come on. This will give you added security for your home. The motion detector lights only turn on when they are activated and can be placed around your home, deterring possible criminals from coming on your property.

For best effectiveness, one should position motion detector sensors to cover the walks leading to your front and back doors and the driveway; that way the lights will come on when you come home at night. You can also use them to light up decks, patios and any potentially hazardous locations such as around stairways and swimming pools.

If improved security is a priority in your home, position the motion detector lights to cover all the approaches to your house, including fence gates, the patio door, the darker areas of your yard, and around trees and bushes. Good lighting can’t guarantee security, of course, but it’s one of the best low-cost ways to get unwanted intruders to back away.

Ideally, it’s best to mount motion detector lights 6 to 10 ft. above the ground and position them so that most movement will occur across the sensitivity zone rather than directly toward the detector. Obviously one can’t always do that if you use existing light locations. One solution is to buy a remote motion sensor unit that one can easily mount some distance away from the light itself. The wires connecting motion detectors to the light are low-voltage and not dangerous, so you don’t have to enclose them in metal or plastic conduit.

What to Consider Before Buying Outdoor Lights

Most outdoor lighting ensembles today are low voltage, and with good reason. Unlike 120-volt systems, it is safer to work with and less costly to install. Though low-voltage lights receive one-tenth the power, thanks to a step-down transformer, there's no limit to the effects they can achieve, from ethereal moonlight beamed down from a tree canopy to a subtle glow that washes over a low garden wall. More than just picking the right hardware, a pleasing outdoor lighting scheme is also about artistry.

Both LED and metal halide fixtures contain large amounts of blue light in their spectrum; blue light brightens the night sky more than any other colour of light, so therefore it is important to minimize the amount emitted. Exposure to blue light at night has also been shown to harm human health and endanger wildlife.

When looking for the ideal light type that would fit your outdoor lighting décor for your home or office space, you can look towards lighting with lower colour temperatures which have very limited blue spectrum light and is usually referred to as warm.

Higher colour temperature sources of light are rich in blue lighting and should be avoided for any form of outdoor lighting fixture. It is also recommended that only warm light sources be used for outdoor lighting; this includes LPS, HPS and low-colour-temperature LEDs. In some areas, the white light of even a low-colour-temperature LED can be a threat to the local night time environment; in cases such as these, LPS or narrow-spectrum LEDs are preferred choices.