Most people work hard and put in long hours on the job, but we often don’t get a chance to see our homes until after dark. Soft lighting in a dark outdoor environment is nothing short of magic. It provides a warm, inviting ambiance that beckons us outdoors. It creates mood, romance, and drama. It adds interest and intrigue to any setting. A growing number of homeowners are capturing this magic in their gardens through “nightscaping,” one of the hottest trends in outdoor home improvement today.
Lighting can be one of the most important aspects of landscape and hardscape design, yet it is often overlooked or underdone. Proper outdoor lighting design allows you to highlight focal points and hide eyesores. It can also be used to enhance safety and security, to accent special trees or plantings, and to create a festive atmosphere for outdoor entertaining.
Landscape lights also serve a number of needs, from letting you walk safely down a flagstone path at night, to giving you a place to spend time with your family after school and work. Outdoor lights even deter burglars and reduce crime.
Landscape lighting is more than just shining some direct light at a walkway or up a tree. Not only are there techniques and methods for creating ambiance with lights, but some homeowners even prefer to accent the architecture of the home rather than the trees or walkways or patio areas. Home lighting gives you the chance to highlight architectural features like pillars or columns, or enjoy the shadow play of lights on the craggy surface of stone veneer.
Give your home beautiful night time curb appeal with an Atlanta outdoor lighting system. Enjoy a beautiful Atlanta outdoor living space in your back yard when you get home from work with a beautiful outdoor lighting system. A well designed outdoor lighting system will bring out the beauty of your home and garden. Our state of the art lights can be outfitted with several different light bulbs to create the special lighting effects that magically highlight the best features of your home and garden. Illuminate the MOST important features of your home and garden to maximize its beauty and your safety! Let burglars choose the dark house next door, ignoring your beautifully lighted home.
Artistic Landscapes has the experience to design and install an outdoor lighting system that can turn your beautifully landscaped home in to a spectacular showplace at night. This is not an exercise in mounting floodlights at key places in your yard. We design a complete system utilizing start of the art long lasting LED lights and create lighting effects that highlight the best features of your home and landscaping. We can feature your colorful annuals, dramatic trees, and interesting architectural elements of your home. Or hire Artistic Landscapes to take it to the next level and have us design and install lighted fountains and waterfalls for the ultimate backyard environment.
At Artistic Landscapes we offer many specialties, but our expertise comes in taking all these different elements and combining them to create total and unique outdoor environments that reflect your lifestyle. We create patios, decks, outdoor kitchens, waterfall, exterior fireplaces and even pools and spas. We are the source in Atlanta to handle all of your landscaping design and installation needs.
The Value of Outdoor Lighting
A beautifully landscaped home can be transformed into a spectacular showplace at night. Artistic Landscapes offers the ability to not only design and install your outdoor lighting system, but to design a landscape which emphasizes dramatic outdoor lighting. Colorful annual beds, dramatic trees, lighted fountains, or an enchanting waterfall can create a visually stunning nightscape. An outdoor lighting system is a smart investment for several reasons:
- Landscape lighting enhances a home’s value and pride of ownership.
- Outdoor lighting can highlight your landscapes finest features and your biggest investment, your home!
- Outdoor lighting increases home security by deterring burglary, vandalism, and other crimes.
- Lighting increases safety and reduces risk around walkways, steps, pools, water gardens, and other landscape features.
About Low Voltage Lighting Systems
Low voltage systems are safe and energy efficient. A home’s 120 volt current is reduced to a safe 12 volts by a transformer. There is no risk of electrical shock to children or animals if the cable is accidentally cut. The lights use less wattage, yet provide comparable light to many 120 volt, higher wattage lamps. A low voltage system costs three times less to operate than a 120 volt lighting system.
