Illuminations USA

Having proper lighting inside of your home is always important, but homeowners often neglect the exterior. Not only will outdoor lighting allow you to enjoy the outside of your home at night, but it will add to the overall appeal and value of your property. This is especially true if you have a large yard or notable features surrounding your home that are worthy of being highlighted at any time of day. From gardens to walkways, Kichler lighting solutions can ensure that the best parts of your property are seen regardless of whether or not the sun is up.

The options are almost limitless when it comes to landscape lighting, and that remains true when we use Kichler lights to bring new brightness all across your property. These lights can be placed almost anywhere throughout your landscaping to illuminate various areas of your home, business or surrounding lawn. Whether you want lights around your house to highlight its architecture or placed in your yard to show off a garden or pool, we can make it happen.

All of Kichler’s lights are high-quality, and their outdoor lighting fixtures are no exception. All of their lights are made with architectural-grade materials, meaning they won’t break down at a moment’s notice. For example, they use materials including marine-grade aluminum, stainless steel and premium copper.

Not only have they been creating lights for almost a century, but they have never faltered when it comes to quality. Kichler lights are known for being long-lasting products that hold up under a variety of conditions.

Most people have at least one or two lights outside of their home, but they often do nothing to increase the visual aesthetics of the property and surrounding landscape. With our landscape lighting services, we create focal points around your yard, highlighting specific areas that really bring your landscape to life. We can help you focus on certain areas of your home’s architecture that you want to show off, which only serves to increase the curb appeal of your home.

We offer a variety of options to our customers including low-voltage and LED lights. These lights can be used in new and exciting ways to create unique lighting effects around the outside of your home or business. You will also benefit from the fact that these lights are easy to maintain, long-lasting and incredibly energy efficient.

Outdoor lighting will make your property secure in more ways than one. First of all, it can be used to guide visitors along pathways, ensuring nobody trips and gets hurt while making their way to your front door. Additionally, lighting up the outside of your house at night will ward off any intruders who might otherwise think they can go unnoticed in the cover of darkness.

While these lights can still be very bright despite their low voltage, they typically aren’t the first choice for someone who is looking for a blinding floodlight. Instead, these lights are ideal for adding some soft lighting accents to areas around your home, garden or pool. Fortunately, LED lighting – which also operates on low-voltage power – can help provide brighter accents and bigger splashes of light in places where it may be needed.

Installing low-voltage lights are simple because they use low-voltage wires. This means that the wires can simply be placed under a shallow layer of soil so they aren’t an eyesore, meaning that extensive digging, excavation or construction work isn’t needed to add new brightness to your home, business and surrounding landscape. This also means that if you decide to replace or expand your lighting setup after they have been installed, the wires can easily be brought up in order to reorganize the lights.

Because these lights feature voltage that is much lower than the average electrical outlet, they are generally considered to be safer and more efficient than the other types of lights. This makes the installation and maintenance process simpler than ever, as well. On top of these factors, low-voltage lights save you money by consuming less electricity, making them very cost-effective as well.

LED lights have a long life span, and often last owners for many years – even decades. The typical LED will shine at its original brightness levels for well over 10,000 hours of use – well over a year of 24/7 operation – and generally continue to provide lighting for close to 50,000 hours.

There are a variety of options when it comes to installing lights around the exterior of your pool, many of which depend on the layout of the surrounding area. For example, if you have a pathway leading to the pool, we can place lights along it to guide your way at night. We can also install lights in the area surrounding the pool, ensuring ambient light that provides people clear vision so that they can easily get in and out of the water. Broad lighting designs will illuminate the entire area, meaning you will be able to relax around the pool area at night even if you don’t feel like swimming.

Yes, LED lights can be placed not only around the exterior of your pool, but also underwater around the interior of your pool to give you light to swim at night without creating a bright and blinding effect. We can use LED lights to enhance your pool with a cool glow that will make swimming even more comfortable and relaxing. You can also choose from a variety of colors to create unique effects below the surface of the water.

Retrofit LED lamps are available, which fit into existing conventional lighting fixtures and have a five-year warranty. The only time Illuminations USA recommends using these conventional lighting fixtures, though, is when they are high-quality pieces that are worth saving. Although they are not the very best, they cost about 50 percent less than true LED fixtures, and offer an electrical savings of about 75 to 80 percent. For these fixtures, you must also change the bulbs every five years.

Using LED lights around your property will give you more control over how bright certain areas are lit. For example, we can combine multiple LED lights to really highlight a specific area of your landscape. On the other hand, individual lights can be placed and dimmed any time you want an area to have some illumination without being too bright.

The short answer is yes! That’s because not only do these lights contain no chemicals, but they are made from recyclable materials. If you are worried about making a negative impact on the environment, don’t be. Using LED lights benefits you and the environment that surrounds us all.

LED lighting systems are great because they can easily be installed nearly anywhere on your property. Whether you want LED lights to line a walkway, highlight a garden or light up a specific feature of your building, we can use them to get the job done. These lights are incredibly versatile, and with the right amount of planning, we can use them to enhance any aspect of your home, business or surrounding landscape.

One often overlooked benefit of LED lights is that they give off no UV emissions. While this isn’t important for every property owner, some people will want objects and areas illuminated that may be sensitive to UV rays. LED lights are also incredibly durable, and they can be used during a wide range of weather conditions and temperatures.

You will be happy to know that LED lights can be focused on a specific area without having to use any type of reflector. This means that lighting up one specific area of your landscape while keeping other spots in the dark is entirely possible with LED lights. Narrowly focused beams of light can be emitted with LEDs, allowing certain elements, like beautiful trees or elegant fountains, to draw viewers’ attention while keeping the surrounding areas awash in low light.

One of the best features of LED lights is that they can be combined with one another as needed to achieve the results you’re looking for. If you need incredibly bright lights in one section of your property while subdued accent lighting is called for elsewhere around the home or business, our design and installation team can make it a reality using LEDs.

Your home is likely one of the biggest investments you’ve ever made, and it only makes sense that you want it to look good. You know what your home looks like, and everyone else can see it during the day, but what about at night? Whether you’re hosting a party or have your home up for sale, you’re going to want people to be able to appreciate its architecture when the sun goes down, too. Placing lighting in the right spots can shine a light on the best features of your home, making it stand out in the best possible way. Exterior architectural lighting design is one of our key focus areas, and what has made us so successful for our clients all throughout Central Florida. Contact us today to learn how we can cast your property in a whole new light!

There are a few areas of your property that you’re going to want to avoid installing lighting. For example, using hanging lights in a few locations around the outside of your home probably won’t do much to show off the building and could actually detract from its overall appearance. That’s because hanging lights typically only illuminate the areas beneath them, when often the most attractive parts of your structure are often higher up. You also don’t want to place architectural lighting so far away from the property itself that the light doesn’t reach the house.

While there is no right or wrong answer, certain areas of your property will be better than others when it comes to architectural lighting. In general, it depends on the needs of the homeowner and the style of the property, but the experienced team at Illuminations USA can help you make the best decisions.

To start, LED lights offer a 75 percent energy savings versus conventional lighting. There is no maintenance for as long as 18 years with average residential use, with LED lighting installations generally offering more than 40,000 usage house hour before requiring replacement. That’s nearly four full years of 24/7 operation!

All the difference in the world! Not only does it give your property added security, but it can help to accentuate your property’s best features at night. This is invaluable if you value the curb appeal and value of your home, which you should! You can browse through our gallery to get a small sense of the difference our landscape lighting services can really make.

There are many things to know about lighting. Illuminations USA has specialized in landscape lighting and nothing else since 1994. Landscapers, irrigation, electricians, handymen and the neighbor down the street have no idea about voltage drop, proper placement of the correct fixture to do the job, wattage or beam spread – not to mention award-winning artistic design! With the advent of multi-tap transformers, it is imperative that amperage rules are adhered to, not just for safety’s sake, but also for proper illumination and bulb life. Employees at Illuminations USA have been trained in the latest methods of installation and with the supervision of Steven Riggs, our landscape lighting artist and designer, each project becomes a work of art.

Low-voltage lighting is very safe around water. In fact, having lighting in and around your pool only serves to make the area more safe, not less.

Absolutely! With the correct beam spread and wattage, we can light just about anything. We will take the time to evaluate your property to best determine how lighting can be used to illuminate specific areas and features.

No. Unlike high-voltage, it is not required to bury low-voltage more than 6 inches deep. This is also beneficial because it means digging up the wires to rearrange lights or add more fixtures is a fairly simple process.

The front of an average home takes about a day for installation. The installation process will take additional time if you would like lighting throughout the rest of your property, but we promise to always complete projects as timely and efficiently as possible.

It is a unit plugged into an outlet that converts 120 volts to 12 volts.

Running your lighting system will be very inexpensive because all the lights we use are low-voltage, meaning that you’re using off only one transformer to run all your outdoor lights. The exact energy cost will, of course, vary depending on how many lights you have installed and the overall size and scope of the project.