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Landscape Lighting
After the home is built and the yard is landscaped, there is nothing more to consider, right? Wrong! To really set off a home and increase the visual living space, you have to include an outdoor lighting scheme. A beautifully lit exterior doesn’t just play up a home's features – it also adds security and value. It is fairly easy to imagine the difference one feels sitting in a living room at night with black windows, and sitting in a living room with a view of a softly lit yard, with highlighted trees or perhaps a walkway. Being able to see beyond a dark window increases the visual space around you and limits hiding areas for would-be prowlers. In addition to visual space, you have additional living space. Proper lighting extends the hours you can enjoy your garden, porch or patio all year long. Once exposed to high-quality lighting fixtures and their possible effects, you won't want to be without them.
The best way to choose these fixtures is to spend some time in the "landscape lighting laboratory" at Wholesale Electric. This simulated home exterior has a landscaped yard complete with trees and bushes. There are more than 30 individually controlled fixtures allowing for dramatic presentations of such design techniques as down-lighting, moon-lighting, spotlighting, grazing, silhouetting, shadowing, up-lighting and cross-lighting. The lab features the Kichler Lighting line of landscape lighting fixtures, which are constructed to commercial specifications using materials such as cast aluminum, stainless-steel fittings and power-coated finishes for durability against the changing weather, even in our volatile Midwest climate.
