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How to Make Your House Look More Upscale With Outdoor Lighting

How to Make Your House Look More Upscale With Outdoor Lighting

When driving through upscale neighborhoods, you will see houses that are beautifully lit up, with the most striking features accentuated. They do not just limit themselves to a garage light and two porch lights. The lighting extends across the facade of the home, along pathways, into the landscape. You too can achieve that effect with landscape lighting installation. Here are some tips to help…

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3 Must-Have Decorative Items for Christmas

3 Must-Have Decorative Items for Christmas

When Christmas comes around the corner, every home transforms into an aesthetically appealing delight. People start planning for the holiday weeks before the actual day. With fancy decorations and delicious meals, this holiday gets every individual grooving in a festive mood. Every year, millions of people dazzle up their homes with stunning decoration items. The goal is to create a welcoming…

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Christmas Lighting and Decoration Installation Service FAQ

Christmas Lighting and Decoration Installation Service FAQ

We get lots of questions this time of year so we decided to create a Christmas Lighting and Decoration Installation Service FAQ to help you be more informed.

How does the pricing work?

The lights are priced by the bulb. Bulbs are spaced 12” apart so we estimate by the foot. When the actual installation is complete we count the number of bulbs and that tells us what your actual cost is.

Equipment…

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Outdoor landscape light troubleshooting - All Lights All Out

Outdoor landscape light troubleshooting – All Lights All Out

Most homeowners are not skilled at outdoor landscape light troubleshooting but this article can help with the basics.

The question we get every day is, “My landscape lights are all out. What do I do?”  While this article will not present every option, it will help you with the most likely reasons your system is not working.

Every system is different but these instructions are designed for one of…

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Trust Dale Certifies Abulous Lighting

Trust Dale Certifies Abulous Lighting

Abulous Lighting is Trust Dale Certified

As seen in the Trust Dale Certified Services Guide

Abulous Lighting has been awarded the prestigious Trust Dale award by investigative reporter Dale Cardwell.  The fact that Trust Dale certifies Abulous Lighting is an affirmation that Abulous is doing right by their customers. Abulous service manager Frank Taylor was overjoyed to receive the news and…

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Homeowners Guide to Professional Landscape Light Maintenance

Homeowners Guide to Professional Landscape Light Maintenance

Homeowners Guide to Professional Landscape Light Maintenance

If you want to maintain your system like a pro here is your homeowners guide to professional landscape light maintenance. These steps are copied almost verbatim from our technician training manual.

Tools and equipment needed

Screwdriver (Philips and standard)

Dykes

Wire strippers

Wire nuts (use the waterproof kind)

Extra wire (make sure…

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Landscape Lighting Dangers

Homeowners rarely think about the potential landscape lighting dangers because things rarely go wrong. But when they do the results can be catastrophic. Here’s a story about a homeowner who narrowly avoided a disaster at his home.

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Outdoor Lighting

We are currently running specials in two North Fulton neighborhoods.

If you have received a letter from us we would love an opportunity to give you a free no obligation outdoor lighting quote featuring the special pricing. Please give us a call or write and we’ll schedule a visit at a time that fits your schedule.

If you want to learn more about our company read on. We also have loads of resource…

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America's 3 Most Popular Outdoor Lighting Techniques

America’s 3 Most Popular Outdoor Lighting Techniques

Landscape lighting designers typically work from the same book. As diverse as houses in America are, there are three primary types/styles of landscape lighting. We’ll shine some light on America’s 3 most popular outdoor lighting techniques in this article.

House Lighting

The Abulous UL-103 is a popular fixture to illuminate the front of homes. This fixture will light easily illuminate soffits…

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How to calculate the cost of power for landscape lighting

How to calculate the cost of power for landscape lighting

Our customers frequently ask us how much their power bill will increase after their new system is installed. Nowadays we’re only installing LED systems so our response is, “You will not even notice it.”

However, back when we installed incandescent systems the power requirements were much greater. While the number was relatively low compared to air conditioning units and the like, we would always…

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Black Friday Sale

Everything 30% off our already low prices.

Here is and example of one of our pre-engineered specials.

Complete Outdoor Lighting System Installed Normal Price: $1,820 - Sale Price:$1,290! 6 – Solid Brass LED up-lights

Solid Brass uplight with integrated LEDs. Lifetime Warranty. Click to enlarge.

These lights are rated for a 40,000 hour lifespan! These fixtures have a 65 Ingress Protection Ratingw…

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Choosing beam angle

When you set out to purchase fixtures you may be presented with options for bulbs or fixtures with various beam angles. To  choose the correct beam angle you must consider the distance between your fixture and your subject. You must also consider the size of your subject area.

Professionals also consider the power of the lamp (lumens) as well as foot-candle. We will not go into professional level…

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This Alpharetta, GA home looks fAbulous with this new lighting we installed.

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How to Install Down Lighting

How to Install Down Lighting

Do-it-yourself Down Light Installation

It is fairly easy to install lights on the ground around your house but placing moonlighting 30′ up a tree is a different story.  In this article we show the homeowner how to professionally install down lighting (moon lighting) using the correct components and techniques.

First of all we assume you have the skills and equipment you need to position yourself…

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How to Plan Landscape Lighting

How to Plan Landscape Lighting

 It’s All About the Plan

Most homeowners have what it takes to install basic landscape lighting. The job is simple enough; place some fixtures, run some wires, hang a transformer and connect everything. But you can’t just start placing components without a plan. We’ll review how to plan landscape lighting.  Once you have the diagram (with accompanying documents) you will have a much better chance…

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What is an LED bulb?

What is an LED bulb?

What is a LED bulb?

LED stands for Light-Emitting Diode.   It is assembled into a lamp (sometimes called a light bulb) for use in lighting fixtures.

So What Then is an LED?

Two close-up views of a 3-watt LED Lamp

Technically speaking an LED is a two-lead semiconductor light source that is a pn-junctiondiode. When voltage is applied to the leads, electrons are able to recombine with electron holes…

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Uplighting makes this spruce stand out nicely at night in this landscape setting.