Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Clearwater & Tampa Bay recently completed a festive outdoor lighting installation in beautiful Belleair, FL. As you may know, this genre of decorative outdoor lighting is all the rage among designers and homeowners alike! Tune into any home and landscape improvement show or peruse the pages of your favorite home and garden magazine and … [Read more…]
Outdoor string lighting is everywhere! You can see it featured on TV commercials, home and garden shows and in all the top decorating magazines. This year, Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Clearwater & Tampa Bay has experienced a surge in customer requests for outdoor festival lighting. Festival lighting, also referred to as cafe, fiesta or festoon lighting, … [Read more…]
Decorative outdoor lighting offers homeowners a completely different and distinctive look that goes beyond ordinary fixtures. Where most landscape lighting fixtures are meant to be hidden out of sight, these decorative fixtures beg to be seen as they are as stunning by day as they are at night. What makes our decorative lights special is their high quality … [Read more…]
Glorious warm temperatures in Clearwater and Tampa Bay afford us the opportunity for pool time nearly year round. As the weather heats up and pool season gets into gear, homeowners are calling us to help them extend their outdoor entertaining time with family and friends with regard to their pools, patios, lanai’s and decks. As … [Read more…]
Much like our previous blog story “Did you miss Illumination Saturday?” where we discussed the rush to get your holiday lighting up and running, this week’s story explores the weeks following New Year that consist of removing and storing your holiday lights. Here at Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Clearwater & Tampa bay we term this … [Read more…]
We love our snowbird customers here at Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Clearwater & Tampa Bay. Though they live part of the year in cooler parts of the country, they spend their winters right here in lovely Florida at their second homes. These homeowners get all the benefits of warm winters, but there are also challenges … [Read more…]
When Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Clearwater & Tampa Bay designs your outdoor lighting, we will make sure to design it with energy-saving LED fixtures that will be longer lasting over old-school halogen fixtures. Though other lighting contractors might design strictly using traditional fixtures to keep the front-end costs appear slightly lower, you will be paying more in operational … [Read more…]
There is no shortage of magical images of outdoor lighting among home and garden media these days. It seems as though the ambiance of outdoor lighting is featured in every magazine in the newstand! Among the most news-worthy is festive lighting. Often referred to under a host of different names such as fiesta lighting, festival … [Read more…]
One of the most personally rewarding parts of being a homeowner is the selection of your favorite decorative elements, items and accessories for your home’s interior and exterior that truly define your personality and individuality. Even in a development where the basic layout of the homes seem similar, no two residences are the same. Your … [Read more…]
To be an artist or to possess artistic ability one must have the right balance of vision and skill. Artists surround us in all walks of life and they often have careers in which art plays an integral part. Although painters, wood crafters and sculptors are the professions one would think of first, artists can … [Read more…]
A home owner’s association( HOA) has a responsibility to promote safety and bring a sense of warmth to a community. HOAs often turn to decorative outdoor lighting to bring that ambiance and comfort to a neighborhood, which also adds a lot of beauty and value to the homes within. However, many communities rely on gas-powered lanterns to … [Read more…]
Did you know that Florida is one of the top states in the nation for retirees as well as snowbirds? Thousands of winter residents reside in the Clearwater and Tampa Bay area each year. Florida, of course, is a draw to snowbirds for its miles of beaches, semi-tropical climate, idyllic landscape, scenic splendor and wide range of activities to participate … [Read more…]
Properties in the Clearwater and Tampa Bay area come in all shapes and sizes. This is not limited to the layout of homes. Lots vary greatly too. Just because a lot is small doesn’t mean that it is not well-landscaped, gardened, and tended with care. But when it comes to outdoor lighting, small spaces do … [Read more…]
You take pride in all the components of your lawn and gardens – the grass, trees, shrubs, flowers, and water feature. All of these bring beauty and serenity to your property. So does your sculpture. You put care into choosing it. It is a primary focal point of your yard, but at night, it gets … [Read more…]
Here in Clearwater and Tampa Bay, we love our pools. As summer’s swelter sets in, we need a place to cool off, and like kids, we don’t want to leave the pool once the sun sets. Actually for many of us, we may not even have an opportunity for a dip until evening, after work … [Read more…]
There’s nothing quite so relaxing as a night spent on the lanai in the Clearwater and Tampa Bay areas. Cool breezes and salt air rejuvenate you, and time slows down. While you can certainly experience these moments with only moonlight to illuminate this outdoor living space, you may well knock your shin against the coffee … [Read more…]
No, we don’t see this every day, but occasionally, Mother Nature throws some unconventional wear and tear on the outdoor lighting systems installed and serviced by Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Clearwater and Tampa Bay. This past week, we were called out for maintenance and found a snake had made this client’s transformer box into its … [Read more…]
Sometimes creating the perfect outdoor lighting solution can be as simple as finding the perfect fixture. Recently, we completed a commercial job for a restaurant that is a wonderful example. The project involved illuminating a lovely palm tree located in an island out front of a busy restaurant. The area is surrounded by pavers and … [Read more…]
Can you hear them? Night noises. Crickets, owls, whip-poor-wills, and tree frogs are among just some of the creatures that call the natural areas of Florida home. Here in the Clearwater and Tampa Bay areas, they live out their lives in wooded areas and marshes that are preserved and kept from urban development. Florida boasts … [Read more…]
An arbor is one of the most beautiful and enduring pieces of a landscape. It takes time, precision, and a lot of hard work to bring it to life. And there is no better way to appreciate it than to add arbor lighting. I recently had the opportunity to put up some beautiful outdoor lighting … [Read more…]