Custom Outdoor Lighting Design, How to Tell a Plan From a Package|Is Your Lighting Quote Actually a Design? Here Is How to Check|Why Custom Design Matters in Outdoor Lighting

Why the term tells you nothing

Nobody advertises a generic plan. It costs nothing to say so it has stopped carrying information. What is worth checking is what the company hands you, since one of those produces paper and the other produces a number.Keep that straight through the whole process. A package starts with a number and works backward. A design starts with your building and arrives at a number. Both are legitimate ways to sell. Only one of them is designed for you, and you deserve to know which you have.

The contents of a real plan

A real design tells you where light goes and why. It names which rooflines, which gables, which trees, which walkways, instead of saying the front of the home. It says what the standard white is. It says where the controller mounts and how the wiring runs. And it says which areas are not being lit.

Order of operations

A price without a design is a guess wearing a decimal point. Two quotes can look close and mean nothing alike. When the design comes first, the comparison is honest. When the price comes first, the design gets shaped to fit the number, quietly.A plan you understand is also a plan you can hold somebody to, which is the practical reason to insist on one rather than accepting a number and a handshake.

The questions a designer should ask you

Expect questions, rather than pitched. How you use the outside of your home, where you actually go after dark, and what the main job is. The way you use the property matters as much as the shape of the https://jeffreyorrj518.valiantfield.com/posts/holiday-light-takedown-and-storage-the-question-that-separates-one-company-from-another-who-takes-down-your-christmas-lights-ask-before-you-book-january-and-the-part-of-holiday-lighting-nobody-plans-for house, and nobody can guess it.

Where a plan earns its keep

Roofline, landscape, accent, patio and security work usually all appear on the list. Bought separately over several years, they never quite agree: different whites, different intensities, competing focal points. One plan, phased if it needs to be, still ends up coherent.

You are allowed to push back on the plan

A design is the start of a conversation. You can remove things without needing a reason beyond not wanting it. If it comes back to you unchanged, or the answer is that this is how it is done, that is worth noticing. The answer should be that revisions are expected.

Ask for a copy

Ask for a copy, and hold onto it. It matters when you sell, if you phase the rest of it, or if anybody ever has to work out what is where. A company that will not give you the drawing is worth a second thought.

Getting a design drawn

The design begins with a visit, not a catalog. EverCrest Lighting does custom outdoor lighting design and installation covering permanent roofline systems, landscape, accent, patio and security lighting for homes and businesses across Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina, out of Greenville. Consultations are free. Call (864) 252-1732 or email [email protected].

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