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IYear Round Christmas Lights: How One Install Covers Every DecemberSep 28
IILandscape Lighting Install, What a Good Plan Looks Like|Thinking About Landscape Lighting and What It Should Cost You in EffortSep 26
IIIHiring an Outdoor Lighting Company: What to Ask|What a Good Outdoor Lighting Company Does Differently for Homes and BusinessesSep 24
IVLighting the Roofline: How One Line Changes the Whole House|Why Roofline Lighting Works When It Is Done Properly|Considering Roofline Lighting? Start With the Roof EdgeSep 21

Article I

Year Round Christmas Lights: How One Install Covers Every December

By @zanecxdt413

Why December looks the same every year A week or so after Thanksgiving, the box of Christmas lights comes out of the garage. The strands are tangled, a whole run stays dark, and the ladder is already leaning on the gutter. You put up with it because the house looks good lit, though the setup is nobody's favorite part. Then in January you take it all down again. What permanent Christmas lights really are Permanent Christmas lights is a different approach. Rather than puttin

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Article II

Landscape Lighting Install, What a Good Plan Looks Like|Thinking About Landscape Lighting and What It Should Cost You in Effort

By @zanecxdt413

Landscape lighting is a design problem before it is a shopping problem Where roofline lighting works on the building, landscape lighting handles everything below it: the walk, the beds, the trees, the steps. The goal is light you see the effect of, not fixtures you count. Done badly, it looks like an airport runway down the driveway. The pieces of a plan Most plans start with the walk, which is the piece that earns its cost every single evening. A well placed uplight keeps

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Article III

Hiring an Outdoor Lighting Company: What to Ask|What a Good Outdoor Lighting Company Does Differently for Homes and Businesses

By @zanecxdt413

The part people rush Outdoor lighting gets quoted fast and understood slowly. A package price and a custom design can land within a few hundred dollars of each other, and look nothing alike at night. Ask whether the design comes first The first question is simple: is there a plan drawn for my house? If somebody can point at the gables and tell you why, that is a good sign. A company that cannot is selling you a package. Ask what happens after the install Everything mounte

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Article IV

Lighting the Roofline: How One Line Changes the Whole House|Why Roofline Lighting Works When It Is Done Properly|Considering Roofline Lighting? Start With the Roof Edge

By @zanecxdt413

The roof edge is the line your eye already follows From the street, a house is mostly a silhouette, and the roof draws it. It is the longest continuous line on the building, and it sits against the sky, so it has contrast working for it. Light that line and the building reads as a shape rather than a dark mass.Which is why almost every permanent lighting system starts at that line rather than anywhere else on the building. One continuous line, mounted once, doing the most v

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