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We are very fortunate to work in some of the finest neighborhoods in central Texas with some truly fabulous custom homes.  This includes Cimarron Hills and others in Georgetown; Enfield, Spanish Oaks, and many newer areas of Austin; as well as Escondido and Applehead Island in Horseshoe Bay, and several wonderful neighborhoods in between.  It …

The most requested project we get is for the lighting of trees.  Here in central Texas we are blessed with all types of oak trees including live oaks, red oaks, white oaks, Spanish oaks, etc.  We also have cedar elms, crape myrtles, magnolias and many other types of magnificent trees and they all can look …

Thank you so much for your help in creating such a magical birthday for our granddaughter Annie with the LED balloons. You could see Annie’s heart soar as her friends sang her happy birthday and the colorfully lit balloons rose up into the glorious star lit sky. You have created so much magic with your …

We were recently called onto a location which had several outdoor lighting problems, but let’s just cover one of them right now. This lighting system was only installed about a year ago. The installer used fixtures that are very high quality and very expensive. They also used very high quality LED lamps in most of the fixtures. …

Your Specialists for Low Voltage Landscape Lighting in Austin It’s hard to believe that we’ve been designing and installing high quality low voltage landscape lighting in Austin for over 15 years now! It’s been an exciting ride so far, and we expect it to only get better over the next decade and beyond. Let’s talk …

Landscape lighting glare control needs to be a priority when designing an outdoor lighting system in Austin or anywhere. See the effect, not the source (Bill Locklin, the father of landscape lighting) I just read a brief article and realized that I really  needed to write something about landscape lighting GLARE again.  Glare is one …

String lights are all the rage today One of the newest trends in decorative outdoor lighting is string lights (or bistro lighting), particularly for special events. We’ve installed more string lights in the past year than we have in the previous 10 years combined, so it’s clear that many people are recognizing that specialty lighting like …

A good Texas outdoor lighting design requires a knowledge of beam spreads Many times I have talked with potential clients who have existing outdoor lighting that they have never really fallen in love with.  Perhaps they have had ongoing performance problems or maintenance issues, but even more often it has to do with the Texas outdoor …

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It sure would be nice if there were a simple answer for everyone. When do you cross the line from not enough lighting to too much? When do you go from not bright enough to too bright? We could honestly spend days trying to answer these two questions, but the science of vision plays an …