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Find the Right Electrician to Install Your Landscape Lighting in Las Vegas, Nevada

Living in Las Vegas might sometimes infect you with what I like to call the ‘shiny lights bug’. You want your home and its environs to take advantage of lighting to give it more character. Quite frankly, many homeowners like fancy lighting, whether they live in Las Vegas or not. But I like to think the bug is especially strong in Vegas. 

In this case, I’m going to talk about landscape lighting. When it comes to landscape lighting, less is more. You don’t need as much light outdoors as you do indoors. Before you call for landscape lighting installation Las Vegas experts, take a walk through your back and front yards at night. Develop an idea for how you will tailor your outdoor spaces and how lighting will help in that respect. When you’re ready to pick a layout and fixtures, you can use the following tips to learn how to best handle the lighting. Remember, however, that you should always do this in collaboration with an expert, especially if you’re not very sure about what you’re doing. 

Important landscape lighting tips

The way light is perceived during the day is very different from how it is perceived at night. This is important to note, especially when you’re lighting outdoor spaces and paths. There are also certain evergreen principles about lighting, whether it is done indoors or outdoors, that you should have on your fingertips.

To start off, light has both color and intensity, intensity meaning the quantity of light emitted. The color of a light bulb can be found in the packaging of the bulb. It’s usually in Kelvin, or K, and ranges from 1800K to 7500K. 1800K is red while 7500K is blue bordering on white.

Whether you are handling lighting indoors or outdoors, there are 3 kinds of lighting, depending on the function:

• Overall lighting illuminates a whole space or room
• Task lighting is used for a very specific purpose. In the case of landscape lighting, it might be to light a path.
• Accent lighting is meant to draw attention to something. Floodlights and spotlights are a form of accent lighting outdoors.

There are also a variety of bulbs that are better suited for outdoor lighting than others:

• Fluorescent bulbs last long and don’t consume too much energy.
• Incandescent bulbs emit beautiful light but consume plenty of electricity and don’t last very long.
• Halogen bulbs are more efficient incandescent, lasting longer and consuming less energy.
• LED lighting is expensive, but lasts very long and consumes very little energy. LEDs also come in a wide variety of colors.

If your landscape lighting is located near the building, then you can integrate the wiring for the landscape lighting with the building’s own wiring system. Alternatively, you can look into solar landscape lighting as an option.

Common landscape lighting issues

The problems you might face with outdoor landscape lighting might be different from those you might face indoors. Reflection, for example, isn’t as big of a problem outdoors as it is indoors. Most surfaces outside are poor reflectors and dark. On the other hand, shielding and positioning is more important in landscape lighting than indoors since glare is a bigger problem outdoors.

Glare is when a light source is either too bright or too big. Glare can blind you since it reflects right into your eyes. Outdoor landscape lighting therefore needs to have more indirect light, rather than direct. 

Direct outdoor lighting can be in the form of a downlight outside a door, which will mostly brighten the door and not the surroundings. Indirect light tends to reflect on surfaces in the surrounding and creates a soft and gentle ‘wash’.