APPROACH
The goals that you have for your setting, and the feeling you wish to evoke guide the LANDLUX customized landscape lighting solution. Subtle illumination is the outcome of our focus on the effect and not the lighting source.
Our horticultural approach to Outdoor Lighting is unique. What does that mean?
- We have knowledge and understanding of the landscape.
- We know which trees and plantings serve best as focal points for lighting.
- We balance aesthetics and functionality, making the landscape not only beautiful, but importantly safe and accessible for use at night.
Professional collaboration is integral to our process. This includes the clients/end users and the talented landscape lighting designers, landscape architects, architects, and builders that engage LANDLUX as their project partner.
From concept to the specification of high quality fixtures, and the full landscape lighting plan, LANDLUX creates customized outdoor lighting solutions that incorporate the desired vision and feel for each setting, the selection of visually compelling focal points, and path, landscape, and waterside lighting.
Our landscape lighting projects are designed to achieve subtlety in the illumination of the nighttime landscape. The lighting elevates each landscape and in collaboration with our professional partners considers each fixture finish, location, and lamp type, including color temperature, beam spreads, glare control and wattage/lumen output.
Shane O’Keeffe, LANDLUX Founder & President, is a Certified Outdoor Lighting Designer (COLD). Shane is one of fewer than 70 Certified Outdoor Lighting Designers in the U.S.
Landscape lighting installation is “where the rubber meets the road.” The installation process incorporates design and expertise with professional, high touch, exceptional service. LANDLUX installations are meticulous and known for an emphasis on design, quality, safety, longevity of systems, and respect for plantings and hardscape.
Installation services include:
- High quality, elegant fixtures that are built to last
- Watertight connections and fittings designed for outdoor use
- Low Voltage/LED System Installation
- Management of the Installation of Line Voltage Systems
- Upgrades to existing landscape lighting and/or new installations on established landscapes with minimal disturbance
- Knowledge and compliance with local ordinances regarding Outdoor Lighting
LANDLUX landscape lighting provides additional security for your property. LED/Low Voltage solutions and highly efficient technology offer both savings and smart controls.
Ongoing maintenance ensures that the landscape lighting solution will last for years to come. LANDLUX provides the full range of Landscape Lighting Maintenance services. We view every property at night to make required adjustments after services are performed.
Maintenance services include:
- Inspect Operations of Transformers, Cables, and Fixtures
- Clean all Fixture Lenses
- Adjust and Refocus Fixtures
- Adjust Tree Mounted Fixtures and Cables to accommodate tree growth
- Inspect all Inground Fixtures
- After Dark Adjustment
Many landscape lighting firms do not provide after dark adjustments to your outdoor lighting. At LANDLUX, we view every property at night after services are performed. After all, that is our product… lighting after dark… and we want to be sure that it meets our own high standards, as well as yours.
Also known as beam pattern or beam angle, beam spread is a measurement of the width of the beam, or the spread of light from the reflectorized source. The beam spread can be adjusted from a narrow spot (NSP) to a wide flood (WFL) and widths in between.
Color temperature refers to the warmth (red/yellow) or coolness (blue) of the light from a specific light source. Measured on the Kelvin (K) scale, light measuring 3,500K or less have a warm red-orange-yellow appearance and enhance the appearance of warmer color objects. Light sources measuring 4,100K or higher have a bluish-white appearance and bring out cooler color objects, such as blues and greens.
Utilizing lighting fixtures or fittings placed high with illumination directed downward. In landscape lighting, downlighting fittings are often attached to tree trunks or limbs.
Glare is bright light that meets the eye either directly, or indirectly reflected from the light source. Either way, it is a negative effect that makes it difficult to see.
LED is the abbreviation for light emitting diode. LED devices light when electricity is passed through them. LED light sources can be warm or cool, are long-lived, and are energy efficient.
Lumen is an International System of Units (SI) measurement of the amount of light emitted from a light source. The higher the lumens, the brighter the light from the light source; the lower the lumens, the dimmer the light.
Low voltage lighting is most often 12V. A transformer is required to convert “normal” 120 volts lines to low voltage, defined as lower than 30V. Benefits of low voltage landscape lighting systems is energy efficiency and safety for outdoor use.
A luminaire is a complete light fixture. It includes the “lamp” or light source inside, meaning the bulb or device that emits light; and also the “housing” of the lamps, including the socket, casing, protective cover, wiring and reflector.
Replicating the soft light of the moon, moonlighting is a landscape lighting technique whereby downlights or spots are placed high, usually 25 feet or higher, and directed so that the beams are filtered by the branches and leaves of trees. Moonlighting creates soft illumination, shadows and reflections.
Path lighting, also known as walkway lighting, softly illuminates walkways, stairs and paths, so that a property is safe to navigate after dark. Path lighting is low voltage, with LED and solar light source common among fixture options.
Pendant outdoor lighting hangs from a ceiling, beam, pergola, etc., and can be single or grouped. Pendant lighting most often provides illumination for porches, entryways, and functional outdoor spaces, such as an outdoor kitchen or dining area.
A transformer is a device that converts standard voltage such as 120V to 12V most commonly used for landscape lighting fixtures. The conversion to lower voltage is energy saving and permits the electricity to serve multiple low voltage fixtures and circuits within a landscape lighting installation.
Uplighting is a technique used in landscape lighting whereby the fixture is placed low, often at ground level, with the light directed upward. Uplighting is used to highlight trees, art and sculptures in the landscape, windows, doors, and architectural features. Uplighting creates shadows, depth, and drama, while also adding to security.
Wash lighting “bathes” a feature or focal point in soft, even illumination. The light source beams have soft edges. Wash lighting is used to illuminate large areas, and also in concert with other lighting techniques to produce desired effects.
Voltage is the measure of electricity needed to deliver power from one point to another sufficient to light up a light source. Landscape lighting systems mainly require a transformer to convert standard line voltage, 120V, to low voltage, 12V. Low voltage wires are energy efficient, safe in wet conditions, and have low risk of shock.
Wattage is the amount of power a light source utilizes to illuminate. It is the measure of power consumed vs a measure of illumination output. Watts are calculated by multiplying voltage by amps (the strength of the electric current passing through the electric line).