The categories, sorted out
Ask ten people around Greenville what outdoor lighting means and you will get several answers. For some it is the roof edge, for others the yard, and for plenty of people it is the dark part of the property they never fixed. They are related jobs with different answers.
Roofline and architectural lighting
Permanent outdoor lighting runs a slim LED track along the roofline and eaves, matched to your trim so daylight hides it, and controlled from a phone app. That covers Christmas, game days, and every ordinary evening in between.
The ground level
Below the roofline, landscape lighting does the walk, the beds and the trees. Patio lighting is what gets the patio used after
https://evercrestlighting.com/about/ dark. Security lighting is for the corners, which is a separate job from the curb appeal work. Accent lighting picks out the details.
How to decide what you need
A house that has no shape at night wants roofline lighting first. If the complaint is "we cannot see the walk", start with landscape lighting. The yearly holiday setup is what permanent lighting exists to solve. Most properties have more than one of these.
For businesses
Businesses use the same lighting for different reasons. A lit facade makes the building findable at night. Patio lighting decides whether the outdoor seating gets used after six. Parking and walkway lighting is a safety matter, and entry lighting sets the tone for a property before anybody is through the door.
The free consultation
The first visit is a look at the property, not a pitch on the kitchen table. The useful questions are practical: which doors you use after dark, where you entertain, what you cannot see. The way you use the property is what the design should follow.You should come out of it able to explain the plan to somebody else. If you cannot, the design was not explained well enough.When you call, a short description of the property speeds things up. One story or two. Roof pitch, if you know it. How far the house sits off the road. What is planted out front. None of it has to be exact. It just shortens the distance between the first call and a real plan.
One company, one plan
The simplest version of this is having one plan for the house and the yard, so the roofline and the walkway are not fighting each other. EverCrest Lighting is an outdoor lighting company in Greenville, South Carolina covering permanent roofline lighting, holiday lighting, landscape and patio lighting, accent lighting and security lighting, residential and commercial. Service runs across Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina, including Greenville, Greer, Simpsonville, Taylors, Easley, Mauldin, Travelers Rest, Spartanburg and Anderson. The consultation is free. Reach them at (864) 252-1732 or
[email protected].