Outdoor Accent Lighting Fixtures

Outdoor accent commercial lighting can accent any element of structure or exterior landscape with supplemental white light or lighting of various hues and colors. Outdoor accent light fixtures tend to be smaller and less obtrusive than purely functional site lights, and most are available in low voltage designs that allow them to remain on throughout the night without costing your client a fortune in electrical usage. There are hundreds of fixture types you can use for outdoor accent lighting, and countless places throughout your client’s property where they can be installed for a superior outdoor lighting experience.

Building Lights & Building Lighting
Most commercial buildings have something uniquely aesthetic about their architecture that makes them stand out as individual structures in comparison to other buildings. Accenting these structural points of differentiation can be done very effectively with decorative light fixtures made specifically for building and sign lighting.

Even if your client has a building that features nothing spectacular or particularly attractive about its design, you can still add an aesthetic touch to even the plainest of structures with LED recessed electric lights and signage lighting. Just by adding a touch of color to a drab exterior can transform a building from something that is “just there” to something that stands out in an appealing manner.

Walkway Lights & Landscape Lighting
Any corporation, academic institution, or municipal facility that has two or more buildings on property is going to have connecting walkways that run between these buildings. These walkways can be accented with a variety of outdoor accent lighting fixtures, most of which are low voltage fixtures and diminutive in size. Bollards, path lighting, and rope lights are excellent sources to use along walkways. During holidays, a host of LED specialty lights and displays can also be installed along walkways to establish a theme of decorum appropriate to the season.

Ultimately, no matter what lamping options you select for your client’s outdoor accent lighting, you want to create a sense of unity between the architecture of different buildings—especially if the buildings themselves differ significantly from one another. If your clients building(s) reside(s) on a large piece of land, you also have to extend this sense of unity into the surrounding landscape. As sustainability and green technology continue to matter more and more to society at large, your clients can surely benefit from any visual suggestion that their operation exists in harmony with the surrounding natural world to the extent that the boundaries between the two cannot be clearly separated, if they can be at all.

Tree Lights & Tree Lighting
Tree lighting represents a very unique, niche market service for eclectic landscape design companies. For regions of the country where they are still legal to use, mercury vapor decorative lights can be hidden in the upper branches of the trees to create pools of artificial moonlight around the base of the trunk. For regions of the nation where mercury lights have been banned, contractors can install fluorescent or LED fixtures to create special luminary effects in the landscape.

Waterworks & Waterfalls
Municipal parks and large commercial properties often invest in fountains and artificial waterfalls. These waterworks can be either circular or rectangular in nature and often have a concrete bottom similar to a swimming pool. When you encounter a structure such as this, you have an amazing opportunity to produce some spectacular lighting effects with energy saving lights that will magnify the brilliance of the fountain and surrounding pool at a marginal power cost.

Commercial decorative lighting around waterworks can be either ambient white light or colored light. LEDs make excellent accent lighting for fountains and bodies of water because many LEDs are actually designed to operate under the water itself. You can install red, green, amber, or blue LEDs in key locations along the bottom of the pool, fountain, or artificial waterfall, creating a spectrum of light that rises out of the water. Around the perimeter you can use decorative bollards, step lights, accent lights, and small floodlights that shine white light toward the center of the pool and the waterspout of the fountain itself. These fixtures too may be very energy efficient. You can use low voltage halogen, commercial fluorescent or white LEDs.

Statues and Metal Sculptures
Statues are common on public school campuses and institutions of higher learning. They are almost always present in the courtyard of city government buildings and frequently decorate public recreation and park areas as well. Decorative lighting around statuary should be as low key and unobtrusive as possible. Commercial lights mounted in the ground around statues or on the corners of the pedestal can create stunning up lighting effects. You do not want to light the entire surface of the statue when doing this. If you do, you will “flatten” the statues appearance to a two dimensional image. A certain amount of shadow is essential to giving a statue a truly three dimensional appearance. Commercial decorative lights must be positioned at key angles of incidence to create this blend of light and shadow.

Similar principals apply to lighting metal sculpture with decorative lights, although there is often much greater flexibility here if you are lighting something that is very large and obviously abstract and asymmetrical in design. Large metal sculptures often require decorative lights to be directly mounted to their surface at the top and near the middle in order to evenly illuminate the curves and angles of the piece.

RLLD Commercial Lighting has access to countless dark sky lighting fixtures and lamping options that can accommodate these unique art lighting demands. We also have many years of experience in fine art lighting equipment and design and will provide you with any assistance you need in setting up outdoor accent lighting systems for metal sculptures, statuary's, and abstract three dimensional works. All consultation services and photometric lighting analysis of your client’s site are free if you are a serious inquirer or existing client of RLLD Commercial Lighting. Casual inquirers in need of supplementary support can obtain the same level of service and quality for a small, reasonable fee.

RLLD Commercial Lighting carries a wide variety of industrial & commercial lighting fixtures. If you can not find what you are looking for contact us toll free at 1-866-654-3961 and we will find it for you. Our home office is located in Houston, Texas with warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including like Ft. Lauderdale, FL (FLL), Orlando, Florida (MCO), Santa Monica, CA, (LAX) Columbus, Ohio (CMH) (LGA) New York, NY, (JKF), St. Louis, MO, Detroit, Michigan (DTW), Madison, WI (MSN), San Francisco, California (SFO), and Omaha, Nebraska (OMA).

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