Permanent Exterior Lighting, What It Is, Where It Goes, and Why People Like It|Thinking About Permanent Outdoor Lighting? Start Here

Start with what it is

Permanent outdoor lighting is an LED system installed along the architecture of a building and left up all year. It replaces the strands you hang and take down with hardware meant to stay outside. The LEDs sit inside a channel that gets color matched to the trim, which is the reason it does not read as decoration during the day.

The usual places it gets mounted

Most designs start at the roofline, and gables, dormers and porch edges get added where they help. On a commercial building the same idea covers storefronts, entries, parking edges and building corners. Good design reads the building's own shape, which is why nothing here is one size fits all.

How you run it

Control is a phone app. Pick a color, set a scene, schedule it to come on at dusk, then leave it alone. The everyday setting ends up being warm white for most people, with color saved for the occasions that call for it. It is one system doing several jobs, which is the real case for it.

Residential and commercial use the same idea differently

On a house, the brief is the front of the home and the walk to the door. On a commercial building, the brief changes: the building has to be visible and legible from the road after sunset. Company colors on a facade do a job a sign cannot, and they change on a schedule.

Questions worth asking

Find out who is coming to the house. Ask for the plan for your house before you talk about price. Ask who you call for support down the road. Those three answers tell you most of what you need better than the bottom line will.

When to say no

Not every house should get this, and an honest company will say it out loud. Short term ownership weakens the case. A dark walkway is solved down at ground level, no https://evercrestlighting.com/permanent-lighting/ matter how good the roofline looks. And if you are not really a holiday lights household, seasonal lights are the better answer. The point of the free consultation is partly to find that out.One more thing worth knowing about permanent systems: the hardware lives outside every day of the year. That puts the fastening, the track and the workmanship among the things worth asking about. A clean install stays clean. A rushed one announces itself in daylight, which is the opposite of the point.

Who tends to be happy with it

The people happiest with it tend to be homeowners done with the December ladder, or the ones who wanted better light around the house anyway. If you are weighing it, start with a design for your specific roofline. EverCrest Lighting installs permanent outdoor lighting for homes and businesses in Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina. Consultations are free. Call (864) 252-1732 or email [email protected].

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