Make Sure Your Home is Safe and Secure

As the evenings are getting dark earlier, look around your home, yard and neighborhood. Do you see areas that pose safety and security questions? Much is said about the stunning affect residential and commercial outdoor lighting can have on architectural and landscaping features. However, in addition to the aesthetic benefits, a low voltage outdoor lighting system also offers the [...]

Discreet and Effective Lighting

I’m constantly impressed with the lighting effects our Outdoor Lighting Perspectives franchisees are able to achieve. As a company, our goal is to design custom systems that highlight all the best landscape and architectural features of a property without being overpowering, but sometimes our clients have specific requirements we need to adhere to. Pat Harders, [...]

Three Lighting Trends Merge Together

A LED, Solar, and Dark Sky Compliant Lighting Design- All in One!

Red Robin Installs LED Lighting

GE announced that Red Robin, a chain restaurant known for their burgers, has replaced about 12,000 standard incandescent  and halogen lights with more efficient LED floodlights and spotlights. The installation, which affected over 150 locations around the U.S.-over half of the company-owned locations-is the largest application of GE’s 7-watt LED PAR lamp in a restaurant setting. [...]

OLP adds LED’s to Available Products

Outdoor Lighting Perspectives is now offering LED’s as a type of lighting when they make their custom designs. LED’s, or light emitting diodes, are tiny light bulbs that can fit easily into an electrical circuit. Unlike incandescent bulbs, they don’t have a filament that will burn out and they’re much more durable, due to their [...]

OLP: Before and After, part 2

A few days ago, I posted a blog about the effect Outdoor Lighting Perspectives can makes on residential homes. Along with that, I attached a link for a “before and after” slideshow. I’ve added new pictures with different types of houses to give you a better idea of how OLP can customize lighting exactly the way [...]

Patio and Pool Lighting

Each year as winter comes to an end and spring begins to warm things up, thousands of back yard pools are reopened and enjoyed. Pools obviously are a neighborhood favorite during the day, but what about at night? Speaking from my own experience, the pool we had growing up was fun during the day, but [...]

Commercial Lighting

So, from my last post, you’ve now seen a few examples of how outdoor lighting can transform homes. But what sort of effect does it have on commercial buildings? Check out this slideshow to find out!

Outdoor Lighting: Before and After

So you’ve heard about Outdoor Lighting Perspectives, but you don’t know how much of a difference it’ll actually make. Check out these houses, before and after Outdoor Lighting Perspectives helped them out, and see the effect illumination can have on your home.

A Comeback for Incandescent Bulbs?

When Congress passed a new energy law two years ago, incandescent bulbs seemed ready for extinction. There was no way the traditional ones could meet the efficiency standards taking place in 2012. Or could they? Researchers are working to maintain Thomas Edison’s bulb by making it more efficient. A new line of these types of [...]