The key to creating a well-illuminated outdoor space – regardless of cost – is to highlight features and create visual contrast, says Marilyn O’Brien, assistant showroom manager for Wolberg Electrical ...

Why spend hundreds on professional landscape lighting when you can achieve the same look for less? These dusk-to-dawn solar ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently released a new Snapshot report on LED outdoor area lighting. The report focuses on outdoor area/roadway luminaires (including street lighting and wall ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Terri Williams is a journalist covering housing trends. Outdoor lighting is an important consideration for homeowners looking to ...

LED is “the new normal” for outdoor area lighting. Fewer than 10 years ago, LED made up less than 5% of outdoor area lighting sales. Now LED comprises more than 95% of sales within this category, with ...

Chad Rodvold of E2 Illumination Designs created this outdoor lighting scheme for a home near Turtle Creek in Dallas. It incorporates moonlighting, uplighting, accent lighting and path lighting.

Outdoor lights improve home security and safety, plus they’re relatively inexpensive and tackling installation is typically an easy weekend DIY project. Along with practical applications, outdoor ...

My husband, DC, wants to know as he writes one more check in an endless stream for our outdoor landscaping project. We love how the project is turning out, but the flow of outbound checks, which he is ...

Monday was the first full day of the main conference of this year’s IES Annual Street & Area Lighting Conference (SALC) in Philadelphia. SALC Chair Dawn Midtbo opened the event with welcome remarks to ...

During the summer, the days pass along languidly and the warm sunny evenings are perfect for brainstorming backyard lighting ideas for your outdoor area. The sun doesn’t set until 8 p.m., and the al ...

You need a specific business and marketing plan if you wish to open a landscape lighting business, or if you currently own a landscaping business and want to add landscape design and lighting as an ...

LED-based fixtures are proving able replacements in outdoor lighting applications ranging to 100,000 lm while delivering benefits in energy efficiency and better beam control relative to HID lamps.