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Landscape Lighting Birmingham AL

Low Voltage Advantage, Landscape Lighting Design

Beauty, Security, Safety and Added Value

It is impossible to utilize your property to its fullest without Landscape Lighting. A professional Blue Sky Rain outdoor lighting system will not only create a more useful, attractive, valuable and secure property, it will allow you to discover the hidden beauty of your landscape and ultimately realize the full potential of your home.

Basic Black

Start with the basics, like the little black dress, uplight the foundation of your home for the perfect foundation of your Landscape Lighting Design.

Questions like how to increase security, add safety to potentially hazardous areas like steps, stairs or water features, and considerably enhance the beauty of the existing landscape after night falls can all be answered with a Blue Sky Rain professionally designed outdoor lighting system.

Basic Black

Start with the basics, like the little black dress, uplight the foundation of your home for the perfect foundation of your Landscape Lighting Design. Questions like how to increase security, add safety to potentially hazardous areas like steps, stairs or water features, and considerably enhance the beauty of the existing landscape after night falls can all be answered with a Blue Sky Rain professionally designed outdoor lighting system.

Repair, LED Upgrades, Bulb Replacement and New Installations

In Birmingham, AL Contact Blue Sky Rain for all your Landscape Lighting Maintenance, Additions, Upgrades, Enhancements and New Installations. We are perfectionists and you’ll see it in our work.

Instant Upgrade

Professionally designed and installed low-voltage landscape lighting is by far the fastest upgrade to give your home the upscale appeal you desire. The cost of these services can prove to be an obstacle for some. However, minimal operating expenses, longevity of the system and the stunning night scenes created through professional design and installation offset and outweigh these initial investments.

Love Being Home

Landscape Lighting systems extend the usable hours of any home or business. By adding light, activities that may have been curtailed by darkness like outdoor entertaining, dining or just relaxing on the patio can be continued well into the evening. This benefit is of particular importance to those who spend most of the daylight hours away from their home. Those who normally have limited opportunity to sit back and actually experience their home and property can now, with the addition of light, enjoy their entire living space both inside and out, day and night.

Custom Landscape Lighting Design

Professional low voltage outdoor lighting provided by Blue Sky Rain offers extreme flexibility with regard to fixture placement and precise control over the light produced. Characteristics like these afford Blue Sky Rain the opportunity to custom design a lighting system specifically for Your landscape.

Why Choose 12 Volt Lighting?

THE LOW-VOLTAGE ADVANTAGE

12 VOLT VS 120 VOLT

  1. 12-volt is safer than 120-volt. Feel safe knowing that your low-voltage lighting poses no risk of accidental electrical injury.
  2. 12-volt operating expense is approximately one third less than the 120-volt lamps.
  3. 12-volt lamps give beam control rather than the omni-directional flare associated with the 120-volt lamps; therefore, more exact, specialized lighting effects can be incorporated into your low-voltage system design.
  4. There are over one hundred 12-volt lamps available compared to twelve 120-volt lamps. Low-voltage lighting eliminates concerns of a limited selection when making choices.
  5. 12-volt lamps are capable of compact design and yield to more compact fixtures. This promotes one’s focus on the lighting effect rather the light source.
  6. 12-volt lamps produce a better quality of light; more subtle, natural lighting effects.
  7. The diverse varieties of low-voltage fixtures and lamps ensure that you can create the desired lighting effects for any installation.

Why Landscape Lighting?

Landscape Lighting Design

Before you meet with a Blue Sky Rain landscape lighting designer, you have two bits of homework.  First, to think about your landscape lighting design and what specific requests you have with regard to lighting your home or business.  Secondly, determine how much you wish to invest in your system and share that amount in the initial meeting.  Blue Sky Rain Landscape Lighting Designs start at $2,400.  Landscape lighting design is similar to indoor design and the project size can be small or  extremely large.  You will get more for you money if you have a budget in mind and let us know what that is.

Top Ten Questions to explore Landscape Lighting

  1. What items or plants are special and will be the focal point of the lighting design?
  2. What features of the landscape do you wish to enhance? (Plantings, pavings, architectural elements, fences, decks, sculptures, walls, etc.)
  3. What features should be de-emphasized at night? (Tool sheds, dog runs, trash barrels, etc.)?
  4. What outdoor activities will you pursue at night? Where? How much light is required?
  5. What moods do you want lighting to create?
  6. What effect do you want the lighting to have on guests?  What parts of the property do you entertain or receive guests?
  7. What parts of the property could be dangerous at night? (Steps, changes in grades, retaining walls, water elements, paths, low overhangs, and whatever else might present a safety problem.)
  8. How can security be strengthened?  Are there any dark areas such as deep shadows near garages or entries that need special attention?
  9. What sections of the landscape are most visible from inside sitting areas that could be good lighting design target areas? (To give a better view from inside.)
  10. What do you want to invest in the landscape lighting design?