Where the term comes from
It is a fair question what the word adds. Outlining a building follows its perimeter. Architectural lighting works with the features the building already has. One treats the house as a shape. The other treats it as a set of surfaces, angles and depths.You do not have to name any of it to want the result. The useful test is whether somebody can point at your building and tell you what the plan responds to. If the answer is specific to your house, there is a design behind it. If it is about the hardware, you are being
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Which features are worth lighting
Look at almost any house and there are two or three features doing the heavy lifting. Peaks, columns, dormers, a material change, a covered entry. Those are the anchors, and everything else is there to hold them together.
Contrast is the tool
The instinct is to light more. It is backwards. Depth needs shadow, so the unlit parts of a facade are doing as much work as the lit ones. Light everything evenly and you get a bright wall with no shape.A building lit this way looks different from one that has been outlined, and the difference is visible from the road even to people who could not say what changed.
Residential and commercial
On a house, the brief is curb appeal and a well lit approach to the door. For a business, the facade is doing marketing after sunset. A lit facade carries further than a sign does, and it can shift color for a season or an event.
The permanent system is not only a holiday product
A permanent LED system is architectural lighting that also happens to do holidays. Set to a single soft white, it lights the architecture. Set to color, it handles the season.
Three ways to point light at a building
There are a few basic approaches. Washing means even light across a surface, good for large simple areas. Grazing is light run tight across a face so texture shows, which is why masonry gets grazed rather than washed. Uplight works on verticals.
Warm or cooler on different materials
There is a range of whites, and the material decides. Warm feels domestic, and it makes earth toned materials look right. Cooler white can suit grey stone, glass and modern facades, though the line between crisp and unfriendly is thin. Mixing them on one building is the mistake to avoid.
The first step
Architectural lighting begins with a design, not a product. Ask why the light goes where it goes, because a real design has an answer. EverCrest Lighting does architectural lighting for homeowners and businesses in Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina, out of Greenville. The consultation is free. Reach them at (864) 252-1732 or
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