How to Light Fountains, Water Walls and Fire Features

How to Light Fountains, Water Walls and Fire Features

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...
Arizona Lighting Timers: Why Winter Throws Them Off

Arizona Lighting Timers: Why Winter Throws Them Off

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...
Snowbird Outdoor Lighting Checklist for Phoenix Homes

Snowbird Outdoor Lighting Checklist for Phoenix Homes

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...
Redoing Your Yard? Call Me Before the Landscaper Shows Up

Redoing Your Yard? Call Me Before the Landscaper Shows Up

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...
Lighting a Casita, Guest House or Detached Garage

Lighting a Casita, Guest House or Detached Garage

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...
The Lighting That Comes From Up in the Tree

The Lighting That Comes From Up in the Tree

Most of what people picture when they think of landscape lighting comes up from the ground, a fixture sitting in the gravel pointed at a tree or a wall. That’s uplighting and we do a ton of it. But the effect customers end up loving the most, when I can talk...