How outdoor lighting is helping Nashville homeowners add design, and curb appeal, to their home

Posted on August 4, 2014 by outdoorlightingnashville

Belle Meade Blvd. outdoor lighting by Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville.

This past weekend marked not only the arrival of August, but also the inaugural arrival of National Curb Appeal month. This new, annual event is dedicated to helping homeowners focus on ways to add value and design appeal to their home’s exterior. One of the best ways to add loads of curb appeal to your home, and landscape, is through the addition of outdoor lighting. Look through the pages of any upscale home or garden magazine and outdoor lighting takes center stage.You may think that creating that same type of nighttime magic, and elegance at your home is only a dream. However, nothing could be farther from the truth. Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville has opened up a world of possibilities to homeowners with our professional outdoor lighting designs enabling you to not only daydream about outdoor lighting at your home, but make that vision a reality too!

Recently, our friends at Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Augusta filmed the transformation of one of their client’s properties taking it from beautiful by day to pure enchantment at night. These videos serve as a perfect example of how Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville can transform your property too. It all begins with our consultation, take a look…

The Idea and Inspiration: When most people think of lighting the outside of their homes, they usually just consider safety and security. Important considerations, however, landscape lighting can be incorporated into an overall landscape plan that also adds to the overall beauty of your property. The lighting of steps, paths and walkways will make the grounds of your property safer; the lighting of the home façade, trees, and outdoor living spaces will add significantly to the aesthetics and make the home more inviting. And there is the obvious benefit of added security by eliminating dark areas of the yard.

Free Design Consultation and Demonstration: Most people don’t realize this until we add lighting, but the backyard is a whole new room that they haven’t explored fully. You can have the option of going beyond that light bulb at the doorway and create a storybook setting at your house too. Good lighting can bring magical qualities to any setting. You can rediscover the perimeter of your property, make it fun to entertain friends and family at night again and highlight points of interest, such as sculptures, fountains or even trees within your yard. Take a look at this “preview”of how the addition of outdoor lighting can enhance our property as we reveal what is involved in a nighttime demonstration …

The Installation: Once you have experienced the magic of a nighttime demonstration, here is an in-depth look at our quality installation process…

The Outdoor Lighting Perspectives Reveal: Here in Nashville, March through September is some of the best times to enjoy outdoor living. With the addition of outdoor lighting, your landscape and outdoor living spaces are instantly transformed into usable space.Take a look at the big reveal of this transformation and imagine you and your family in the starring role…

Matt Oakes of Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville

Ready to experience this kind of transformation for yourself? Contact Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville to make it happen today! Our talented outdoor lighting designers are waiting to assist you too! (615) 373 – 0638 email: olpnashville@outdoorlights.com

Visit our extensive outdoor lighting galleries located on our website, including our landscape lighting gallery, for more inspiring images.

Learn how our Nashville festival lighting can transfrom your backyard into pure enchantment every night!

Posted on May 16, 2014 by outdoorlightingnashville

Festival Orb lighting used at Arrington Vineyards in Arrington, TN.

You have probably seen festival lighting the last time you flipped through the pages of an upscale home & garden magazine. Festival lighting is all the rage for homeowners wanting to add ambiance in their outdoor settings. This style of lighting is one of the most unique and versatile lighting trends customers are requesting. Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville embraces emerging outdoor lighting ideas and new ways to introduce not only illumination into an area, but also as a way to convey a feeling of a mood within a space.

Festoon Lighting by Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville.

Festival lighting originated as a way to light outdoor areas in honor of outdoor celebrations. Street festivals and fairs filled with music and merriment were often draped in lights for an evening or two to commemorate a significant local event and removed at festivals end. Permanent festival lighting takes this dramatic lighting effect to a new level because the lighting is permanent which allows you to indulge in its appeal every night. Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville has completed permanent festival lighting installations here in the Nashville area in residential and commercial settings for many happy customers. Calls continue to pour in as more business owners and homeowners are requesting this unique lighting for their backyards, outdoor living spaces and commercial storefronts.

Festival lighting in this courtyard turned it from a dark, plain space into something magical.

Keep in mind, though similar in nature, all festival lighting is not the same. Generally festival lighting falls into two categories, orb or pendant lighting and festoon lighting. Each genre of permanent festival lighting has its own distinct beauty and style and we offer our customers the choice of either LED or incandescent permanent festival lighting. This is also available in white (clear), and multiple colors. In addition the bulbs can be changed out to honor a special occasion or as a way to change the mood of the area you are illuminating. The creative options are endless with festival outdoor lighting.

Festival lighting creates the perfect place for gathering and entertaining.

Festoon Lighting

Festoon lighting is a great way to illuminate a difficult or overlooked outdoor area in your landscape, or transform a courtyard or patio at your business into a spot begging the attention of patrons Festoon lighting is also a romantic and imaginative lighting technique that works well in covered patios, porches, outdoor living structures or draped in waves within a designated spot in your landscape.

Here is a picture of the same courtyard during the day.

We use multiple strands of low-voltage LED or incandescent festoon lights and string them over the span of the area we are illuminating. We use cable to support the weight of the electrical wiring when we install permanent festival lighting over an area with a large span; this ensures the safety and the integrity of the system. We use commercial-grade lighting products and professional installation to achieve this hypnotic lighting effect. Festoon lighting comes in both clear (white), and multiple colors to choose from.

Orb Lighting

Permanent festival lighting, such as orb lighting, also comes in a host of colors.

Permanent festival lighting, such as orb lighting, comes in a host of lively colors.

Orb lighting lends an ethereal quality to any outdoor area where it is installed. Orbs give the appearance of being “free-floating”. These lights come in 10″, 12″ and 16″ and are available in white, colored as well as clear acrylic. The effect these lights add to an outdoor setting is enchanting. Though these lights are contemporary in design they look great in both rural and urban themed settings. Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville has installed orb festival lighting in both residential and commercial settings. One memorable installation of orb lighting took us to the beautiful Arrington Vineyards in Arrington, TN. The addition of orb lighting made this already magical property even more so in the evening with this unique lighting technique. Can’t you just imagine enjoying a glass of wine under the Nashville night sky lit by the ambiance of orb lighting — priceless.

Orb Lighting at Arrington Vineyards by Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville.

Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville is having great success using festival lighting to convey beauty, ambiance and character through our outdoor lighting designs. Permanent festival lighting is another way we are able to enliven the senses. These lights would are also perfect in holiday lighting applications too– but, you may fall so deeply in love with them you may decide to leave them up year round!

Matt Oakes of Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville

If you are interested in having permanent festival lighting installed at your residence or place of business Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville today to learn more. Call (615) 373 – 0638 Email: olpnashville@outdoorlights.com

Exploring the role of lighting in celebrating the arrival of the Chinese New Year as 2014 is welcomed as the year of the horse

Posted on February 1, 2014 by outdoorlightingnashville

Orb lighting used at Arrington Vineyards in Arrington, TN.

According to the ancient tradition of the Chinese New Year, 2014 is the year of the horse which officially began on January 31st. The Chinese New Year is an important traditional Chinese holiday celebrated at the turn of the Chinese calendar. In China, it is also known as the Spring Festival. These celebrations traditionally run from Chinese New Year’s Eve, the last day of the last month of the Chinese calendar, to the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month, making the festival the longest in the Chinese calendar. Because the Chinese calendar is lunisolar, the Chinese New Year is often referred to as the “Lunar New Year.”

Chinese New Year lasts two weeks and is traditionally a time to honor ancestors and Chinese traditions. The centuries-old celebrations end with the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the New Year. As part of this celebration, paper lanterns are hung. The lanterns are generally red in color and tend to be oval in shape. These are considered the traditional Chinese paper lanterns. Other lanterns used on the fifteenth day of the Chinese New Year during the Lantern Festival, are bright, colorful, and come in a wide array of different sizes and shapes.

History of the paper lantern

Paper lanterns are special kind of lanterns that originate from China and Japan. They are usually made from paper or silk, with the frames being made from bamboo or wood. A lit candle placed inside is used as the source of light. Modern paper lanterns have battery-operated lamps. Traditional paper lanterns were made in the image of myths, things from nature and or in the spirit of local culture. The lanterns symbolize joy, celebration, good fortune and longevity. Data indicates the creation of paper lantern started in China somewhere in 230 BC.

Permanent festival lighting, such as orb lighting, also comes in a host of colors.

The design of the paper lanterns used in honor of this tradition is not that far off from the concept of certain genres of outdoor lighting commonly used year-round. These applications exude soft washes of light much like that of the paper lanterns used during the Chinese New Year. The first outdoor lighting application that comes to mind when envisioning the use of outdoor lanterns is permanent orb lighting, or pendant lighting. Here at Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville, this type of lighting is gaining in popularity because of not only the soft, romantic light it exudes, but also the unique and distinctive beauty it can add to an outdoor space.

Orb and pendant lighting used in outdoor lighting applications

Orb lighting lends an ethereal quality to any outdoor area where installed. They give the appearance of being “free-floating”, much like that of a paper lantern. These lights come in 10″, 12″ and 16″ and are available in white, colored and clear acrylic. The effect these lights impose on a setting is stunning. Though these lights are contemporary in design they look great in both rural and urban themed settings. We recently installed orb lighting at Arrington Vineyards in Arrington, TN. The addition of orb lighting has made this already magical property enchanting in the evening under the spell of this unique lighting technique. The effect these lights create in any outdoor setting is stunning. Orb lighting promotes a carefree ambiance when strung in trees along a gathering or picnic area, or when used to breathe new life into a dark spot within the landscape; they make any outdoor space warm and inviting.

Orb lighting by Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville at Arrington Vineyards. Picture provided by Nash Severance Photography

At Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashvlle we are dedicated to to conveying mood and effect through our outdoor lighting designs. Permanent festival lighting, such as orb lighting, is unique way we are able to enliven the senses through outdoor lighting. Orb lighting delivers many of the same benefits as that of lighting used in traditional age-old celebrations to harness joy and celebration with lighting. These lights would also be perfect in temporary lighting applications but we are certain you will be so enamored by them you may decide to leave them up year round!

John Groce Outdoor Lighting Perspectives Nashville

Please visit our extensive outdoor lighting galleries including our landscape lighting gallery located on our website for more unique and inspiring designs.

Our holiday outdoor lighting is the stuff that dreams are made of, goose bumps and all!

Posted on November 8, 2013 by outdoorlightingnashville

The gift of light outdoor holiday lighting

Don’t miss out on the magic of outdoor holiday lighting for the upcoming season.

As a child I remember how holiday outdoor lighting would provide me with a larger-than-life-fascination. My family and I would pile into the car on a brisk winter evening to ride from neighborhood to neighborhood looking at the beautiful Christmas lights residents had in their yards. These enchanted rides made me feel as if I were riding through a winter wonderland and gave me many fond memories I still carry with me today. Even though I am now an adult, looking at a beautiful holiday lighting display makes me feel like a kid again, goose bumps and all.

I know that most Nashville homeowners share the same endearment for outdoor holiday lighting. Being the Nashville areas premier outdoor lighting company we realize that outdoor holiday lighting is so much more than installing a few strands of holiday lights, it is a means to bringing emotion and joy during the holiday season. At Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville, our designs are the stuff that dreams are made of. We offer a vast array of colors, themes, and installation techniques that reflect the timeless Christmas lighting of the past to cutting edge holiday lighting designs that make you say WOW!

Nashville TN outdoor Christmas lights lighted trees and garlands

This holiday outdoor lighting display uses elegant lighted strands as well as C9 roofline lighting.

Our classic holiday lighting options include C9 roofline lighting which promote a subtle, charming effect. The C9 is very economically priced and is very energy-efficient. C9′s come in transparent and opaque as well as many colors to complete your holiday display. Today’s C9′s are also available in the super energy-efficient LED, that cost only pennies to operate but pack a big punch for the money in terms of ambiance and beauty. We also offer a rainbow of lighted LED strings and tree wrap lighting that are easy on the eyes and on the wallet in terms of operating costs. Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville also offers 3-Dimensional lighted displays along with lighted LED wreaths and garlands to finish out your holiday display seamlessly. If you can dream it — we can make it happen in lights!

The magic of snowfall lighting can be yours this holiday season.

If your taste in outdoor Christmas lighting has you thinking a little more out of the box we also have a wide range of unique holiday lighting elements and techniques we can use to set your holiday display apart from all the rest. These include colored and clear festoon lighting which is as romantic as it is beautiful, and one of our newest holiday tree lighting techniques which is called snowfall lighting. Snowfall lighting, or meteor lighting as it is often called, uses cool LED lights that mimic the look of gently falling snow against a night sky. This technology utilizes the super-efficient LED lights and automatically illuminates at random to create a stunning effect.

We also offer a wide array of lighted wreaths and garland to complete your design.

Our holiday lighting program takes the guesswork out of designing your lighting this year. We design, order, install, remove and store your holiday display for you and all you have to do is sit back and enjoy the season with the ones you love. No more fighting with tangled icicle lights and teetering off the ladder risking an injury. No more worries of the hazards that over exerted circuits can cause. No more rituals of turning on the lights one strand at a time. With our holiday lighting program we can also program your indoor and outdoor lighting displays to operate in unison by using lighting control animation that delivers set it and forget it convenience.

Matt Oakes of Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville

With only 46 days until Christmas, and the debut of the holiday lighting season just a few short weeks away, isn’t it time to contact Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville to make this Christmas the best ever? We think so, contact us today to learn more about our innovative holiday outdoor lighting program — don’t delay, spots are filling fast.(615) 373 – 0638
email: olpnashville@outdoorlights.com

To see more breathtaking outdoor holiday lighting images and examples of colored holiday lights in action, visit our holiday lighting photo gallery located on our website.

Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville enhances beautiful Belle Meade with our outdoor lighting designs

Posted on October 8, 2013 by outdoorlightingnashville

Architectural lighting on Belle Meade Blvd. by Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville

Tree and landscape lighting on Royal Oaks in Belle Meade by Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville

Tree and landscape lighting in Belle Meade by Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville

Here at Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville there is no shortage of beautiful landscapes, facades and storefronts we take pride in illuminating. The Nashville area is loaded with neighborhoods of elegant homes, and charming storefronts. One of the most memorable areas we have been fortunate enough to provide outdoor lighting for is our loyal customers who reside in beautiful Belle Meade. We recently added two more happy homeowners to our repertoire of outdoor lighting we have installed in this prestigious community, on Belle Meade Blvd. and Royal Oaks.

Belle Meade architectural LED lighting and tree lighting by Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville

Our most recent Royal Oaks installation was for returning customers who have hired Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville to design and install the outdoor lighting at their property and home which continues to evolve over the years. This particular installation was completed in phases and was part of the completion of their newly appointed outdoor living areas, and completion of retrofitting their halogen system to LED.

Royal Oaks Belle Meade outdoor lighting by Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville

We added romantic moonlighting behind the new pool house.

We added moonlighting behind their new pool house, tree lighting along the rear and front of the property and along the driveway and path that leads to both the rear and front entrances of this majestic home. The home itself is built in the classic Georgian style architecture with column detail along the front facade of the home. This type of architecture lends itself to outdoor lighting beautifully and provides all the elements needed to portray the graceful charm and elegance of the home under the spell of our outdoor lighting. We have also retrofitted the landscape and architectural lighting from halogen to low-voltage LED in phases, incorporating efficiency and “greener” technologies throughout the property.

LED architectural and facade lighting in Belle Meade by Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville

Classic architecture lends itself to outdoor lighting beautifully and provides all the elements needed to portray the graceful charm and elegance of a home under the spell of our outdoor lighting

Moonlighting on Belle Meade Blvd. by Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville

In order to achieve the desired effect in lighting this fountain, we hired a professional tree climber to mount the fixture within a tree that surrounds the courtyard.

Another outdoor lighting design and installation we recently completed on Belle Meade Blvd., came to us via a referral from our customer on Royal Oaks. This outdoor lighting design and installation included designing and installing the architectural and facade lighting that enhances the traditional federal style of the home, landscape and accent lighting and moonlighting the stunning fountain located inside their rear courtyard. In order to achieve the desired effect in lighting the fountain, we hired a professional tree climber to mount the fixture within a tree that surrounds the courtyard. The fixture was mounted and aimed towards the fountain to create a magical illumination in the evening- stunning!

Royal Oaks in Belle Meade Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville

Another image of our magical outdoor lighting designs in Belle Meade.

You don’t have to live in Belle Meade to take advantage of the many benefits of our outdoor lighting designs. We’ve been designing and installing outdoor lighting in Nashville and the surrounding area for 25 years. We can improve the safety, function and beauty of your home or business during the evening- ask around, chances are that outdoor lighting design that always leaves you breathless was installed by us!

Matt Oakes of Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville

If you are ready to learn more about what making the most out of your outdoor lighting design is all about, contact Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville today. We can turn your home and landscape into a true work of art after the sun goes down!
(615) 373 – 0638
email: olpnashville@outdoorlights.com

Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville shares the secret to successful focal point outdoor lighting within the landscape

Posted on September 8, 2013 by outdoorlightingnashville

Focal lighting on fountain in Belle Meade by Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville

This elegant fountain becomes a beacon of the evening landscape with the addition of outdoor lighting.

Every homeowner has that one feature or area in their landscape or on their home that makes their property truly unique. One of the best ways to feature that unique area of your landscape is by the adding outdoor lighting. By lighting focal points within your landscape, or even characteristics or details of your home’s design, you can enjoy the features that are the reason you love your home day and night! Our lighting design uses soft washes of light to enhance your object or space. This technique ensures your eye is drawn to the object we are illuminating rather than the light source itself.

Outdoor Lighting Perspectives tree lighting

A beloved tree within your landscape makes a perfect candidate to accentuate with light.

Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville uses various lighting techniques to highlight an area or object in your landscape. The secret to successful focal point lighting is dependent on combining the right lighting technique with the right lighting candidate. Many times our clients will point out an area or item they would like illuminated. Other times it’s up to us to suggest an ideal element based on our design experience. Some of the most popular items or areas homeowners choose for featured lighting are fountains, water features, statuary, exterior walls and specific trees in their landscape. Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville has even illuminated islands within backyard pool designs as well as illuminating the underside of patio seating walls to bring attention to the area.

As part of one of our more recent outdoor lighting installations, we illuminated a home in Belle Meade which included lighting the homeowner’s elegant fountain. The fountain sits within the homes rear courtyard patio and is reminiscent of a New Orleans inspired courtyard. Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville used outdoor lighting to highlight the fountain so it can be viewed and enjoyed by the homeowners from inside the home through the windows, and from the exterior of the home. This installation serves as the perfect example of the importance of pairing the right type of lighting with the perfect lighting candidate. After careful consideration, we opted to highlight the fountain with moonlighting. Moonlighting is an outdoor lighting technique that directs the light source from above the area or object you are lighting. For this specific installation we hired a certified tree climber to mount the fixture within a tree that surrounds the courtyard. The fixture was mounted and aimed towards the fountain to create a magical illumination in the evening.

Another look at our recent installation of Nashville focal point lighting in Belle Meade.

Another look at our recent installation in Belle Meade.

Moonlighting is just one of the many lighting techniques we use here at Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville. Our outdoor lighting highlights the architectural elements of your home, and accentuates the features of your landscape. We can design a dramatic lighting display lighting your featured area; a fountain, a statue, the branches of your weeping cherry or Japanese maple, or focus a light onto the gentle splashes of your waterfall and get more enjoyment out of the unique features of your landscape by being able to linger in their beauty even after dusk.

Garden and landscape lighting includes statuary lighting

Focal point lighting works beautifully when lighting statuary or other areas of your landscape that are a focal point.

John Groce Outdoor Lighting Perspectives Nashville

You can visit our architectural outdoor lighting photo gallery, our pool and spa lighting photo gallery and our garden and landscape lighting photo gallery located on our website to see more examples of beautiful focal point outdoor lighting.

Permanent festival outdoor lighting will add romance, nostalgia and ambiance to your Nashville backyard

Posted on August 23, 2013 by outdoorlightingnashville

This commercial festoon lighting by Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville changes the whole mood of this space.

Have you ever skimmed through the glossy pages of a home and garden magazine and marveled at the unique outdoor lighting designs, and even yearned to have it for yourself? If the answer is yes, you are not alone. Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville is seeing a dramatic increase in the amount of commercial and residential customers that are requesting a more unique way of lighting areas of their properties. Among the most coveted type of decorative lighting right now is permanent festival lighting. Permanent festival lighting can add romance, nostalgia and ambiance to any outdoor setting. This is the type of lighting that makes you say aaahh when you see it in the landscape, or maybe even the biggest reason you and your better half enjoy dining at that street cafe down the block- because the lighting enlightens your mood!

Another look at how festoon lighting enlivens this commercial space.

Another look at how our festoon lighting enlivens this commercial space.

Festival lighting began as a way to light outdoor areas in honor of outdoor celebrations. Street festivals filled with music and merriment were often draped in lights for an evening or two to commemorate a significant local event and removed at festivals end. Permanent festival lighting takes this dramatic lighting effect to a new level because the lighting is permanent which allows you to indulge in its appeal year-round! Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville recently completed permanent festival lighting installations here in Nashville at one residence, and two restaurants and calls continue to pour in as more business owners and homeowners alike are requesting this unique lighting for their home or storefront.

All festival lighting is not the same. Generally festival lighting falls into two categories, orb or pendant lighting and festoon lighting. Each genre of permanent festival lighting carries its own distinct beauty and we offer our customers the choice of either LED or incandescent permanent festival lighting.

Huston Station Nashville lighting by Outdoor Lighting Perspectives

Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville used special event festoon-style lighting to add romance to this wedding held at Huston Station in downtown Nashville.

Festoon lighting

Festoon lighting is a great way to awaken a difficult or overlooked area in your yard, or turn a courtyard or patio at your business into pure romance. Festival lighting is also a fun and unique lighting technique that works well in covered patios, outdoor structures and draped in waves within a designated spot in your landscape.

Orb Lighting at Arrington Vineyards by Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville.

Orb lighting

Orb lighting lends an ethereal quality to any outdoor area where installed. They give the appearance of being “free-floating”. These lights come in 10″, 12″ and 16″ and are available in white, colored as well as clear acrylic. The effect these lights impose on a setting is stunning. Though these lights are contemporary in design they look great in both rural and urban themed settings. Outdoor Lighting Perspectives recently installed orb lighting at Arrington Vineyards in Arrington, TN. The addition of orb lighting has made this already magical property enchanting in the evening under the spell of this unique lighting technique.

Permanent festival lighting, such as orb lighting, also comes in a host of colors.

One of our goals here at Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville is to convey a mood and effect through our outdoor lighting designs. Permanent festival lighting is another way we are able to enliven the senses through our outdoor lighting designs. These lights would also be perfect in holiday lighting applications too-you will be so enamored by them you may decide to leave them up year round.

John Groce Outdoor Lighting Perspectives Nashville

Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville stays on trend with the hottest outdoor lighting techniques

Posted on March 3, 2013 by outdoorlightingnashville

Tree lighting by Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville

The ethereal illumination of proper moon lighting is achieved by using multi-layering throughout the trees canopy

One of the hottest trends in outdoor living design is outdoor lighting. Outdoor lighting procures a safe and secure environment around your home but in addition also provides loads of aesthetic value. A recent post by HGTV Remodels indicates the market demand for outdoor lighting is on the rise. They also point out four outdoor lighting techniques that can deliver the effect most homeowners are looking for. These are up lighting, down lighting, zonal lighting and moonlighting. Now, to someone who is not familiar with outdoor lighting terminology, these types of outdoor lighting can sound like a foreign language. In order to get the most out of your outdoor lighting it is important to become familiar with these lighting techniques so you and your professional lighting specialist will be on the same page.

We used up lighting on this home to accentuate the width and depth of the home and bring out special features such as the columns.

Up lighting – this lighting technique is used in both architectural and landscape lighting applications. We use up lighting to accentuate the height, width and depth of your home. This lighting technique is also used within the landscape to add drama and focus to trees, and other areas of interest in the landscape.

Down lighting – down lighting plays upon the same principles as up lighting. Down lighting can be used as an innovative way to enhance your home’s architectural features. Down lighting is also the most widely used technique to illuminate walkways and pathways. Down lighting can promote safety along the most frequented areas around your home and within your yard.

Focal point lighting – focal lighting such as focal tree lighting, waterfall lighting and statuary lighting is the best way to highlight an area or object of beauty in your landscape. Our exclusive focal point lighting uses soft washes of light to enhance your object or space. This technique ensures your eye is drawn to the object we are illuminating rather than the light source itself.

Moonlighting – this appropriately named lighting technique mimics the effects of the light present during a full moon. A combination of up lighting and down lighting is used to create this hauntingly beautiful technique. We often design moonlighting within trees in the landscape to not only illuminate the tree in a unique way, but also the area that surrounds the tree. Dramatic shadowing and ambient light combine to create moonlighting that is a work of art.

Focal point lighting works beautifully when lighting statuary or other areas of interest in your landscape.

Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville is the area’s oldest and best known professional outdoor lighting company. Our outdoor lighting designs include the most popular outdoor lighting techniques. Each of our designs is customized to deliver the most function and beauty. Our exclusive fixtures are manufactured just for Outdoor Lighting Perspective locations. All of our fixtures are constructed from the highest quality materials like copper and solid brass that enable them to blend into your landscape. The goal of any professional outdoor lighting design is to see the area or object of illumination rather than the fixture. Our designs master this beautifully, and our fixtures are built to last season after season.

Contact Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville to learn more about applying these and many more lighting technique to your home and landscape. With over 20 years’ experience we can help you light up the night to enhance your time outdoors. Call us to schedule a night-time demonstration and to see your property like you never imagined possible.
(615) 373 – 0638
Email: olpnashville@outdoorlights.com

John Groce – Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville

You can see examples of these and other outdoor lighting techniques by visiting our landscape and garden photo gallery and our architectural lighting photo gallery located on our website.

Oh Christmas tree, Oh Christmas tree, how lovely are thy branches

Posted on November 13, 2012 by outdoorlightingnashville

Nashville tree lighting with lit presents underneath

This large evergreen is lit with all white LED lights and a bundle of lighted presents sits beneath its branches beckoning Santa’s arrival.

When you think about all the parts of what make a holiday lighting display memorable the beautifully lit trees are what comes to most of our minds. There is simply something magical about adding light to a tree in any genre of outdoor lighting. It is like the tree comes to life under the glow of the lights. Each tree in your landscape has a specific personality. This is conveyed through the form of the tree, from its height, width and the manner in which the branches extrude. Our job as outdoor lighting professionals is to determine which type of lighting will best fit the personality of each tree and bring out the beauty and presence that makes a lighted tree a joy to behold. We use a variety of fixtures, angles, techniques and effects to achieve this when the tree is part of a landscape lighting installation. We also use a varied scope of holiday lighting elements to achieve the same thing when we light the tree as part of a holiday outdoor lighting display as well.

Wrapping the branches and limbs of trees that have since lost their foliage in the fall creates a hauntingly beautiful effect.

Remember that trimming the holiday tree does not have to end with your indoor tree(s). There is nothing more gracious or charming than driving up the lane of a residence which is lined with evergreens lit for the season, or seeing that one magnificent majestic cedar all aglow in the front yard of your home.

To give you a little taste of the enchantment you can create in your landscape this season, here is a look into the beautiful world of Nashville holiday tree lighting for the outside of your home.

This elegant trio of conifers welcomes you as you enter the property of this home. This look was achieved by selecting a trio of evergreens within the homeowner’s landscape and wrapping the trees with white LED strands. We furthered the effect by placing staked lighted LED starbursts around the base of the trees which also complements the rustic rock border along the property line.

Don’t have the perfect specimen in your landscape that would benefit from holiday tree lighting? Outdoor Perspectives of Nashville is the master of illusion; we can create the perfect specimen with special lighting techniques. This man-made Christmas tree sits in the center of the pond located on the property of this home. We simulated the shape of a tree with lighting. What makes this so dramatic is the way the lights reflect off the water for a magical illusion like no other.

This trio of lighted evergreens gives new meaning to the beloved Christmas song “We three kings”. This otherwise overlooked portion of the yard is brought to life for the season under the hypnotic spell of Christmas lighting. Sometimes the most common areas in your landscape can become the focus of a professional holiday lighting design.

Holiday icons, unique shapes and colored lights can become the focus of holiday tree lighting. Here we carefully hung lighted LED oversized Christmas ornaments from the branches of this tree. The result is pure enchantment.

When you wish upon a star, that star may become the highlight of your holiday lighting design. We carefully wrapped the trunk of this tree with white LED lights, and to add a touch of magic we hung lighted LED starbursts from the branches. The combination looks elegant used together and makes onlookers stop and wish their holiday lighting was this imaginative and unique!

The mature evergreen bushes that line the entry to this stunning home are large enough to serve as trees. Their height, width and form lend themselves as the perfect candidate for tree lighting. This ingenious design proves that we can come up with unique solutions and techniques to add holiday tree lighting, even if you lack trees in your landscape.

We can also bring your outdoor Christmas tree to life by synchronizing your favorite holiday music in time with dancing lights, as seen in this video…..

As you can clearly see, there is no end to the magic and wonder professional holiday tree lighting can add to your landscape this season. Bring back the childlike wonder and fascination this season with holiday tree lighting by Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville. Contact us today; we can help create a Christmas you will never forget
(615) 373 – 0638
email: olpnashville@outdoorlights.com

If you still yearn to see for more holiday tree magic, visit our holiday lighting gallery located on our website.

Here in TN fall is the reason for the season, and a great time to consider adding tree lighting to your landscape

Posted on October 29, 2012 by outdoorlightingnashville

Maples, which are native to Nashville, offer some of the most vibrant fall foliage of all trees.

I cannot speak for everyone, but fall is the season that makes me thankful I live in Tennessee. Our autumns offer some of the most beautiful examples of Mother Nature’s majesty with the changing of the leaves. Tennessee is noted as having some of the most spectacular fall foliage of anywhere on the map. Tourists come from all over the country just to see our colorful display. There are even mapped tours such as the Natchez Trace Parkway that offer some of the most beautiful renderings of fall foliage as anywhere in the U.S. Along with the color of the forests, many of those same trees that exude fiery color each fall are found in many of the landscapes of those who reside in Nashville. Being a resident means you have to travel no further than your backyard in order to see the ambers and crimsons of the season. This very reason is enough to consider introducing a way to extend the hours you are able to drink in this beauty by adding professional tree lighting into your landscape.

The changing colors of this tree under the spell of professional tree lighting add to this picture perfect image.

Professional tree lighting is an art in itself. By adding this specialized area of landscape lighting to your property you will also add the ability to savor the colors of fall with no time limits. Even when the sun has set, your landscape will be ablaze with the reason of the season. Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville specializes in focal tree lighting and multiple tree lighting. Whether you wish to select a few choice conifers to illuminate within your landscape, or even a tree-lined border or driveway, we can bring out the best features of each tree.

The unique form and wide spreading branches of the Japanese Maple make it a perfect tree for focal tree lighting.

Our area provides a plethora of native trees such as oaks, maples, poplars and birches that come to life during the fall. Many of these native trees are abundant in our landscape designs and make a perfect starting point for landscape lighting. Along with the trees that are native to our area, ornamental trees are also popular landscape choices and offer visual interest with the changing season as well.

Our many tree lighting techniques add drama and a focal point in your yard. Each tree we light is enhanced by the subtle elements involved in properly illuminating it without overpowering it. We use a combination of up lighting to accentuate the height and majesty of the tree. We also include well lights, wide-angle bulbs and moonlighting to accentuate the width a depth of the tree we are lighting. Each tree is treated as an individual. We take the tree’s special characteristic into consideration to decide which lighting element will work best. Our technique uses a soft wash of romantic light to bring out the distinct beauty of each specimen.

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Nothing compare to the haunting beauty of tree lighting, by Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville

In the same way every picture tells a story, every tree adds changing drama for each season. Adding tree lighting to your forte’ of landscape lighting will not only enhance the curb appeal of your home and landscape, it will enable you to watch the beauty unfold from season to season. We can enhance the warm hues of fall, and the tender blooms of spring and everything in between.

If you are on the fence about adding landscape lighting, and tree lighting to your landscape, now is the perfect time. We can have your system up and running in plenty of time to enjoy the splendor in the leaves and the abundance of beauty beyond the season. Contact Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Nashville today to learn more. (615) 373 – 0638
email: olpnashville@outdoorlights.com

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Visit our landscape and garden lighting photo gallery located on our website to see more example of tree lighting. Remember, we also specialize in outdoor holiday tree lighting as well. With the holidays just around the corner now is the time to schedule an appointment in time for the holiday rush. You can see example of trees decked out in their holiday finest by visiting our outdoor holiday lighting gallery, also located on our website.

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Here in TN fall is the reason for the season, and a great time to consider adding tree lighting to your landscape