Add some low-voltage landscape lighting to enjoy your home and landscape in the evening hours. Plus, youll never come home to a dark, scary house again.
When using landscape lighting to enhance your gardens, there are three types to choose from:
1. Path lighting, which is used along paths. Less is more. Avoid the airport runway look.
2. Up lighting, which is used as an accent light on homes, trees or architectural features.
3. Down lighting, which is used to add interesting lighting in trees or to light up large areas of the landscape.
Items you will need to buy: lights, landscape lighting wire, a transformer and connectors.
The transformer will need to have enough wattage to power all of the light you are using. Add the total of the lights being used and then buy a transformer that is at least 100 watts bigger/stronger.
Try the new LED low voltage lighting. They last a long time (very few bulb replacements) and are even more economical to operate.
Solar lights require no wiring, but they must be placed in eight hours of full sun, and even then may not be all that bright.
Todd Goulding can be reached at GouldingDesignGroup@gmail.com or 345-0719.
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