Texas Landscape Lighting Blog
Honest cost advice, design ideas and maintenance guides for lighting a Texas home.
How Much Electricity Does Landscape Lighting Use?
The formula, real costs for 10 to 40 fixture systems at 15 cents per kWh, and how Texas sunset times affect run hours.
How to Uplight a Tree: A Practical Guide for Texas Yards
Fixture counts, beam angles, placement and species-by-species tips for uplighting and moonlighting Texas trees.
Landscape Lighting Maintenance: A Seasonal Texas Checklist
Monthly quick checks and a season-by-season Texas checklist to keep your landscape lighting bright and balanced.
Path Light Spacing: How Far Apart Should Path Lights Be?
Rules of thumb for spacing path lights, driveway markers and step lights, with a simple worked example.
Landscape Lighting for Home Security: Light Smarter, Not Brighter
Why layered landscape lighting beats floodlights for security, and where to put light so eyes and cameras see more.
Warm White vs Cool White Landscape Lighting: Choosing the Right Color
How Kelvin, CRI and your home's materials decide whether warm or cool white looks best.
How to Protect Landscape Lighting From Storms in Texas
Hurricanes, flash floods, hail and hard freezes: how to storm-proof a Texas landscape lighting system.
12 Landscape Lighting Techniques and Where They Work in Texas
Uplighting, moonlighting, grazing, silhouetting and eight more techniques, with real Texas examples for each.
Halogen to LED Landscape Lighting: How to Make the Switch
Retrofit lamps or new fixtures? A practical guide to converting halogen landscape lights to LED, with savings math.
The Best Landscape Lighting for Texas Heat, Hail and Humidity
Materials, LED types, IP ratings, wire and connectors that actually hold up to Texas heat, storms and salt air.
How Much Does Landscape Lighting Cost in Texas?
Planning ranges per fixture and per project, the factors that drive price, and what a typical Texas system costs to run.
Landscape Lighting Transformer Sizing: A Practical Guide
How to size a low-voltage transformer with the 80% rule, voltage drop math and the right wire gauge, with a worked example.
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