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Most of the decision happens before the quote Outdoor lighting gets quoted fast and understood slowly. A package price and a plan drawn for your house can land within a few hundred dollars of each other, and look nothing alike at night. Start with the design The first question is simple: what does the plan for my house look like? A company that designs for the property will be able to tell you why the light goes where it goes. A company that will not is selling you the sam

First, the words The roof edge comes with vocabulary, and knowing them helps you read a quote. Fascia: the vertical face. Soffit: the underside. Eave: the whole projecting edge.You will not need this vocabulary often, but it appears in every estimate, and it is easier to compare two quotes when both are describing the same part of the building. When somebody says the run follows the fascia, you know exactly what they mean. The reason for that spot Permanent lighting runs a

Before any hardware goes up Nothing gets installed until the design is settled. Somebody walks the property, asks how you use the outside of your home, and figures out which lines are worth lighting. The consultation is free and there is no obligation attached to it. Custom design, not a template Your house is not the same shape as the one down the street, so the plan gets drawn for it. A good design traces the lines the building already has: the main roofline, the gables,

The default answer, and its problem Almost everybody starts with a floodlight. The instinct is understandable and mostly wrong. A single harsh source carves the yard into a bright patch and a black rim, and the shadows it makes are darker than the darkness it replaced.Put all of that together and the picture is not what most people install. Lower output, more locations, better placement: that is the whole approach. It costs no more than the floodlight approach in most cases