Enjoy Your Home After Dark: Landscape Lighting in Charlotte, NC
As summer winds down and the days begin getting shorter, Charlotte homeowners start spending more of their evenings outside after the sun goes down. The right outdoor lighting can completely change how your home looks and how you use your outdoor spaces.
At Southern Lightscapes, we specialize in professional landscape lighting in Charlotte, NC, from custom lighting design and installation to adding onto existing systems, servicing older systems, and installing permanent architectural strip lighting.
If you already have outdoor lighting, now is a great time to improve it. If you’ve been thinking about installing landscape lighting, fall is one of the best times to get started.
1. Add to or Upgrade Your Existing Landscape Lighting for Charlotte, NC
Your landscaping is constantly changing. Trees grow, shrubs fill in, and homeowners add patios, pools, fire pits and other outdoor living spaces. A lighting design that looked great several years ago may not highlight your property the same way today.
Sometimes just a few additional fixtures can make a dramatic difference.
Consider adding lighting to:
- Mature trees and new landscaping
- Dark areas around your home
- Patios, pools and fire pits
- Walkways and steps
- Outdoor kitchens and entertaining areas
- Architectural features on your home
Good landscape lighting isn’t about putting a light on everything. It’s about strategically placing fixtures to create depth, contrast and a natural-looking nighttime environment.
See some of the ways Southern Lightscapes uses landscape lighting to transform outdoor spaces.
2. Service Your Outdoor Lighting Before the Days Get Shorter in Charlotte, NC
If you already have a landscape lighting system, late summer is a perfect time for a system checkup.
Plants can grow over fixtures, lights can get knocked out of position, bulbs and LED components can fail, and timers may need adjustment as sunset gets earlier.
Southern Lightscapes can service your system, reposition fixtures, correct dark areas and recommend additions that can improve the original design.
The goal is simple: when you walk outside at night, your lighting should look just as good as you remember it.
For more ideas on creating a complete nighttime environment, take a look at how we use lighting for patios, landscapes and outdoor living spaces.
Permanent Strip Lighting in Charlotte, NC
Landscape lighting isn’t the only way we can transform the exterior of your home.
Southern Lightscapes also installs permanent strip lighting in Charlotte, NC.
Permanent exterior lighting systems can be discreetly integrated into a home’s roofline and used throughout the year. Instead of hanging and removing lights every Christmas, a professionally installed permanent lighting system stays in place and can be controlled to create different colors and lighting effects.
Use your permanent lighting for:
- Warm white architectural accent lighting
- Christmas
- Halloween
- Panthers games
- Clemson or your favorite college team
- Birthdays and parties
- Fourth of July
- Special events
- Year-round exterior lighting
When the system isn’t being used for colors or holidays, it can provide clean architectural lighting that complements your home.
Modern systems such as ASCEND by Dauer are designed specifically for permanent architectural lighting applications. Homeowners can also see examples of the colors, patterns and year-round possibilities offered by systems such as Gemstone Lights.
The biggest advantage is convenience: your lights are already installed when you need them. No ladders, no hanging Christmas lights every year, and no taking them back down in January.
Get Your Home Ready for Fall
With shorter days approaching, now is a great time to look at your home after dark.
Whether you want to install a new landscape lighting system, add lights to an existing system, schedule service, or install permanent strip lighting, Southern Lightscapes can help you create a lighting design that makes your home and landscape look their best at night.
If you’re looking for landscape lighting in Charlotte, NC, contact Southern Lightscapes today to schedule a consultation.
Let’s make sure your home doesn’t disappear when the sun goes down.