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Start with why LED Hardware that stays up year round faces a harder test than hardware that lives in a box eleven months a year. That rules out most of what people picture when they hear Christmas lights. LEDs run cool, draw little power and do not have a filament to break, which is what makes leaving them up a reasonable idea at all.You do not have to follow the technical side to buy well. But it is worth asking what the channel is, how it mounts and how it is wired, since

The hours nobody thinks about A commercial building gets seen by traffic long after the doors lock. Unlit, it is not part of anyone's evening, and neither is the business. A lit one stays in the mental map of everybody who drives that road.None of this is about making the building pretty. The building is the largest thing the business owns that faces the public, and lighting decides whether it says anything after five. It is one of the few exterior expenses that runs every

The floodlight instinct The standard response to feeling exposed at night is a floodlight bolted to the corner of the house. The instinct makes sense and does not hold up. One bright light produces hard edges, and everything past the beam is harder to see than before.Taken together, it points somewhere other than brightness. It is more fixtures at lower output, placed thoughtfully, covering the approaches rather than blasting the yard. It costs about what people were going

Is there a difference between lighting a house and outlining one? The word sounds like marketing, but there is an actual distinction under it. The difference is between drawing around a house and lighting its parts. One treats the house as a shape. The other reads the gables, the columns, the entry and the stone.You do not have to name any of it to know what you are looking at. It does mean expecting one thing: can whoever is quoting you explain what they are lighting and w

What is driving the interest Drive through a Greenville neighborhood in December and you will see it: clean lines of color along the roof edge and not a strand in sight. What you are looking at is a permanent LED system, put up once and left up. Not a December purchase Christmas gets people to pick up the phone. What keeps people happy with it is the ordinary nights. Warm white on the eaves makes the walk to the door easier to see. Then there are game days, birthdays, the