| Outdoor accent lights can magnify any structure or | | | | moonlight around the base of the trunk. For areas |
| exterior landscape element with supplemental white | | | | where mercury lights have been banned, contractors |
| light or subtle shades of primary colors. Outdoor | | | | can install fluorescent or LED fixtures to create special |
| accent lighting fixtures are often much smaller and less | | | | luminary effects in the landscape. |
| obtrusive than standard site lights, and most are low | | | | Waterworks |
| voltage fixtures intended to remain on throughout the | | | | Municipal parks and large commercial properties |
| night without costing your client a fortune in electrical | | | | frequently invest enormous sums of money in |
| usage. There are hundreds of accent lights you can | | | | fountains and artificial waterfalls that need elegant |
| use for outdoor decor, and countless places | | | | lighting. These waterworks can be either circular or |
| throughout your client's property where they can be | | | | rectangular in nature and often have a concrete |
| installed. | | | | bottom similar to a swimming pool. When you |
| Accent Building Lighting | | | | encounter a structure such as this, you have an |
| Most commercial buildings have something unique | | | | amazing opportunity to produce some spectacular |
| about their architecture that you can capitalize upon to | | | | lighting effects with energy saving lights that will |
| differentiate them from surrounding buildings. Accenting | | | | magnify the brilliance of the fountain and surrounding |
| these structural points of differentiation can be done | | | | pool at a marginal power cost. |
| very effectively with decorative light fixtures made | | | | Commercial accent lighting around waterworks can be |
| specifically for building and sign lighting. | | | | ambient white light, colored light, or a blend of both. |
| Even if your client has a relatively ordinary building with | | | | LEDs make excellent sources for this type of accent |
| no distinguishing features, so to speak, you can still add | | | | lighting because many LEDs can actually be installed |
| an aesthetic touch to the structures with LED accent | | | | under the surface of the water. You can install red, |
| lights and sign lights. Just by adding a bit of color to a | | | | green, amber, or blue LEDs in key locations along the |
| drab exterior can transform a building from something | | | | bottom of the pool, fountain, or artificial waterfall, |
| that is "just there" to something that stands out in an | | | | creating a spectrum of light that rises out of the water. |
| appealing manner. | | | | Around the perimeter you can use decorative bollards, |
| Walkway & Path Commercial Lighting Fixtures | | | | step lights, accent lights, and small floodlights that shine |
| Any corporation, academic institution, or municipal | | | | white light toward the center of the pool and the |
| facility that has more than one building on site is going | | | | waterspout of the fountain itself. |
| to have connecting walkways that run between these | | | | These fixtures too may be very energy efficient, |
| buildings. These walkways can be illuminated with a | | | | featuring low voltage halogen, commercial fluorescents, |
| variety of outdoor accent lighting fixtures, most of | | | | or white LEDs. |
| which are low voltage fixtures and diminutive in size. | | | | Statues and Metal Sculptures |
| Bollards, path lights, and rope lights are excellent | | | | Statuary is common on public school campuses, |
| sources to use along walkways. During holidays, a host | | | | colleges, and universities. Statures are almost always |
| of LED specialty lights and displays can also be | | | | present in the courtyard of city government buildings |
| installed along walkways to establish a theme of | | | | and frequently decorate public recreation and park |
| decorum appropriate to the season. | | | | areas as well. Decorative lights around statues should |
| Ultimately, no matter what lamp options you select for | | | | be as low key and unobtrusive as possible. |
| your client's outdoor accent lighting, you should aim to | | | | Commercial decorative lights mounted in the ground |
| create a sense of unity between the architecture of | | | | around statues or on the corners of the pedestal can |
| different buildings-especially if the buildings themselves | | | | create stunning up lighting effects. However, you do |
| differ significantly from one another. If your clients | | | | not want to light the entire surface of the statue when |
| building(s) reside(s) on several acres of property, you | | | | doing this. If you do, you will "flatten" the statue's |
| also have to extend this sense of unity into the | | | | appearance to a two dimensional image. A certain |
| surrounding landscape. As sustainability and green | | | | amount of shadow is essential to giving a statue a |
| technology continue to matter more and more to | | | | sense of depth and proportion. Commercial decorative |
| society at large, your clients can surely benefit from | | | | lights must be positioned at key angles of incidence to |
| the implication that their facility is so environmentally | | | | create this blend of light and shadow. |
| friendly it looks like a feature of the land itself. | | | | Similar principals apply to lighting metal sculptures with |
| Tree Lighting Fixtures | | | | decorative lighting fixtures, although there is often much |
| Tree lights represent a very unique, niche market | | | | greater flexibility here if you are lighting something that |
| product for eclectic landscape design companies. For | | | | is very large and asymmetrical in design. Large metal |
| regions of the country where they are still legal to use, | | | | sculptures often require decorative lights to be directly |
| mercury vapor decorative lights can be hidden in the | | | | mounted to their in order to evenly illuminate the curves |
| upper branches of the trees to create pools of artificial | | | | and angles of the piece. |