Oct 29, 2026
Lighting Your HOA’s Entrance and Common Areas If you’ve driven around the East Valley at night you’ve seen this. A nice master-planned neighborhood, a big stone monument at the entrance with the name in raised letters, and the light on it is pointed...
Oct 22, 2026
Lighting a Fountain, Water Wall or Fire Feature So It Looks Right at Night When somebody spends a lot of money on a water feature, a cast stone fountain or a sheet waterfall coming off a block wall, it’s usually the centerpiece of the yard during the day. Then...
Oct 12, 2026
Arizona Doesn’t Change Its Clocks, But Your Lights Still Need to Know It’s Winter Here’s a thing I explain a lot more than you’d think. People move here from somewhere else, they hear that Arizona doesn’t do daylight saving time, and they...
Oct 3, 2026
Back for the Winter? Check Your Lights Before You Unpack the Patio Cushions Every year somewhere around the middle of October my phone starts ringing with people who just got back from Minnesota or Washington or wherever they spend the summer, and the call usually...
Sep 28, 2026
I get a certain phone call every spring and fall and it goes about the same way every time. Somebody had their yard redone, the new landscaping looks great, and half the lights don’t work anymore. Sometimes none of them work, or the landscaper pulled every...
Sep 19, 2026
A lot of houses in the Valley have something out back. Could be a casita that got built for the in-laws, or a guest house that turned into a home office a few years ago and never really turned back. And almost every time I’m out doing a design, the main house...
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