Installing low-voltage landscape lighting is a project you can tackle in a weekend with the proper planning and preparation. Make your home the envy of your neighbors while making your home safe and inviting-day and night. This book will teach you how to select the right equipment, lay out your landscape lighting plan and install it all yourself using basic tools.
The Landscape Lighting Guide is here to help almost anyone become successful in the trade of low voltage LED landscape lighting. This is a simple-to-understand guide that takes the potential outdoor lighting entrepreneur through the basic steps necessary to start a business. This short and sweet guide will take you from choosing the company name to completing installation of a quality outdoor lighting system. It won't bog down with a lot of technical jargon, or boring information that you'll learn through experience anyway. It's quick and easy. Down and dirty. To the point. No college education needed to understand this guide. Lights? Camera? ACTION!
DESIGN LIKE A PRO! Save thousands of dollars by not hiring a company to install a landscape lighting system. This step by step guide was created by a professional with 38 years experience installing lighting in 100's of homes and businesses. Feel confident in selecting fixtures and installing one of the most impactful additions to your property! We will cover in this manual: The concepts of lighting and their effects on perception and mood. Teach you a professional's approach to assessing your property and designing an impressive lighting system from multiple perspectives. Selecting the right fixtures to optimize the look of your home or business. Crucial installation steps to installing a quality system that is worry free. How to care and maintain your lights for optimum performance. Yes, anyone can do this with no prior experience at all! A low voltage system equipped with LED lighting, it's safe and energy efficient. What are you waiting for, let's get busy!
Following on from the critically acclaimed The Landscape Lighting Book, this is the lighting design companion every professional and student in landscape architecture needs. Written by an award-winning internationally renowned landscape lighting designer, with over 40 years’ experience in professional practice, The Art of Landscape Lighting takes the reader step-by-step through Janet Lennox Moyer’s design process. Personal and accessible in tone, the book covers tools, equipment, techniques, effects, installation, design composition and challenges using built case studies spanning the author’s career. Each project takes you through the process of how to plan compositions; selecting what should be lit and what should remain unlit; how to prioritize the importance of multiple elements; balancing brightness relationships; providing visual transportation across scenes; lighting the same space in different ways and, importantly, guidance on when designs are complete. Lavishly designed and illustrated with 450 full colour photographs, showcasing projects from start to finish, it additionally includes new landscape lighting equipment and techniques developed by Moyer throughout her career. This includes shore scraping, rainwall lighting, approaches for lighting water features and sculptures, and the 3-prong stake. Aimed at practicing professionals and students in landscape architecture, this book is the must-have inspirational resource that provides you with everything you need to design and implement landscape lighting across multiple scales.
This New York Times bestselling book is filled with hundreds of fun, deceptively simple, budget-friendly ideas for sprucing up your home. With two home renovations under their (tool) belts and millions of hits per month on their blog YoungHouseLove.com, Sherry and John Petersik are home-improvement enthusiasts primed to pass on a slew of projects, tricks, and techniques to do-it-yourselfers of all levels. Packed with 243 tips and ideas—both classic and unexpected—and more than 400 photographs and illustrations, this is a book that readers will return to again and again for the creative projects and easy-to-follow instructions in the relatable voice the Petersiks are known for. Learn to trick out a thrift-store mirror, spice up plain old roller shades, "hack" your Ikea table to create three distinct looks, and so much more.
A national authority on this emerging field offers a comprehensive guide to the art and science of designing, erecting and maintaining an outdoor lighting system. Presents in-depth coverage on how to plan, design and build a project; reviews all technical components and materials; discusses specific issues of landscape design setting and its elements--plants, sculptures and structures, water features, etc. Packed with hundreds of detailed photos, sketches, plans and drawings.
Outdoor lighting is one of the easiest and most cost effective ways to add beauty and security to your home. Here is the complete guide to designing and installing a stunning lighting system that will make your home shine at night. Topics include: * Understanding Low Voltage and Solar Lighting * How to Design and Install Low Voltage Lighting Like a Professional * Pros and Cons of Different Types of Lights * Lighting Effects and Design Concepts * LEDs and the Future of Lighting If you like DIY projects that enhance the value of your home and enable enjoyment of your yard at all hours this is the book for you!
Redesign Your Yard: The Enchantment of Low-Voltage Landscape Lighting This book will teach you the art and science of changing your outside environments. This in-depth manual delves deeply into the field of low voltage landscape lighting, providing a plethora of information and helpful guidance to assist you in designing breathtaking, energy-efficient outdoor spaces. This book covers it all, from showcasing architectural elements and creating peaceful outdoor retreats to increasing curb appeal with dramatic entrances. You will get knowledge about picking the appropriate fixtures, going with energy-efficient solutions, and integrating smart lighting systems, in addition to learning crucial techniques like uplighting, downlighting, and path lighting. This book, which is written with clarity and skill, is intended for homeowners, landscape designers, and anybody else who is passionate about turning their outside spaces into comfortable and useful places. Every chapter has been painstakingly designed to give you clear explanations, creative design concepts, and easy-to-follow directions so you can create, install, and operate your own low voltage landscape lighting system.
"The basic function of lighting is to extend the hours in the day. Recent developments in lighting technology have encouraged us to look at how light sources are used as an integral part of the overall design, first in our homes and now in our gardens." --p. 6.
