Properly designed, installed, and maintained landscape lighting definitely adds function, creativity, and spontaneity in the nighttime landscape. With the help of Tokoro Inc., professional landscape lighting specialist you can circumvent the following most common outdoor lighting mistakes.

a) More is not essential superior when it comes to outdoor lighting - Using too many lights may generate an overly striking look of a “model house”, “delegation” rather than an air of sophisticated elegance.
b) Just as too many lights may form a blindingly bright appear, so will bulbs which are not correctly shielded and/or those with too high a wattage. The best low voltage lighting systems make use of bulbs specifically made to work in their system and they emit a gentle glow on landscape, a building, or focal point.c) Avoid leaving large darkened areas which portrays the eye to the light source instead of the intended focus such as a building’s distinctive architectural elements. The lighting fixtures are not the intended focal point of professionally designed lighting applications.

d) The bulbs in pre-existing lighting such as garage lighting, lighting posts, porch lights, should be habituated so that they do not compete with the overall lighting effect. These “hot spots” can be simply corrected by restoring the pre-existing bulbs with lower wattage bulbs.

e) Each property offers a distinctive canvas on which lighting designers can make their own work. With slight variations in wattage, angels of lights, plus careful placement of lighting fixtures, lighting designers avoid the glance caused by a lack of variety in the lighting techniques.

f) Improperly designed lighting or lighting fixtures without proper shielding frequently creates troublemaking lighting that glowers into the windows of neighboring homes or in the eyes of drivers on the street.

g) Too many path lights used too closely together build the airport runway effect which may draw unwanted air traffic. This can be a fault.

h) The lighting industry’s evolutions have been slow on developing viable solar lighting systems. Unfortunately, solar landscape lights are still years behind in areas of durability and lighting effect. The solar posts normally used work more as markers for the location of the fixture rather than tools to emphasize a remarkable feature of a landscape.

i) Unbalanced lighting may classify rather than pulling landscape and structural features together which creates a mixture look rather than the often sought after majestic appearance.

j) Yellowing and uneven brightness due to an insufficient power source and improper engineering can be disturbing and unattractive. Also, lack of power can also become a costly nuisance as it invariably leads to impulsive bulb burnout.

In addition to essential residential lighting products, Tokoro’s creates custom landscape, porch and villa lighting systems for subdivision entrances, clubhouses, pools, driveways, walkways, residential and commercial developments, municipalities, public facilities, and park developments, as well as complexes of apartment, town homes, and condos.

To know more about Tokoro’s porch and Villa Lighting, please call 310.657.3806 or fax at 310.271.2879. To contact us through online please click contact us in bottom of the home page. For more information on Tokoro’s Porch and Villa Lighting, visit their web site at http://www.tokoroinc.com/.