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You work hard to make your home beautiful. However, at night, that beauty that makes your home truly special is obscured. With high-quality architectural lighting from Equinox Outdoor Lighting & Audio, nightfall no longer means your home’s exterior must be hidden away. Whether you live in Houston or surrounding areas such as Kingwood, The Woodlands, or Cypress, our company can design lighting that accentuates your home, revealing its true beauty even in the dark.

We’ll explore what architectural lighting means for your home in Houston, Texas, or the surrounding area.

Exterior Architectural Lighting for Homes and Buildings

A beautiful landscape shot showing off architectural lighting.

Exterior architectural lighting highlights elements of homes, buildings, and landscape structures, such as walls, statues, and fountains. With architectural lighting, you’ll be able to highlight a building’s features with various techniques and light fixtures. The right design can increase your home and/or landscape’s nighttime curb appeal.

Benefits of Architectural Lighting for Your Property

As with other types of outdoor lighting, architectural lighting has its own unique benefits. We’ll discuss a few of them here.

Highlight specific features: Outdoor architectural lighting draws attention to design elements on a home, such as walls, pillars, and other features, as well as landscape features like fences, statues, fountains, and more.
Increase curb appeal: Architectural lighting highlights a property’s beauty, increasing its nighttime curb appeal.

Architectural Lighting Techniques That Highlight Your Home

Uplighting: With uplighting, a light is placed lower than the subject it is illuminating, such as on the ground, to project light upwards. Potential uplighting subjects include facades and columns.
Wall washing: To achieve wall washing, the fixture is positioned a significant distance from the feature it is illuminating and angled indirectly toward it. Wall washing creates a subtle and even ambient light in the area around the surface it is directed towards.
Wall grazing: This technique is when a light is placed close to a surface, and light is directed almost parallel to it. When done correctly, light “grazes” across a surface, forming shadows from design elements such as reliefs, grooves, and ridges. Light placement is crucial to achieving the desired effect. Unlike wall washing, wall grazing highlights the textures of the surface it is projected onto.
Silhouetting: In this technique, light fixtures are placed behind an object to create an outline of it on a well-illuminated surface like a wall or fence.
Shadowing: With shadowing, a light fixture is placed in front of an object, like a statue, to create a shadow on a surface, such as a fence or wall.
Downlighting: This is when a light fixture is installed above the area it is illuminating and projects light downward. Downlights are often installed under overhangs or eaves and are excellent for highlighting features such as tall walls and columns.

LED Architectural Lighting for Efficiency and Long-Term Performance

At Equinox Outdoor Lighting & Audio, we believe in using LED lighting for architectural lighting. It offers many benefits over incandescent lighting.

Some benefits of LED architectural lighting include:

Efficiency: LED lighting reduces energy bills and also benefits the environment by reducing energy consumption compared to incandescent lights.
Long-term performance: LED lighting lasts significantly longer than incandescent lighting.
Cooler temperature: LED lighting generates far less heat than incandescent lighting, which is beneficial if someone accidentally brushes up against it.
Attracts fewer bugs: Generally, LED lighting attracts fewer bugs.

Architectural Lighting for Houston Area Homes and Properties

As a local company, Equinox Outdoor Lighting & Audio’s design professionals are familiar with the styles of homes and property designs common in the Houston area. This includes the historic houses in the Houston Heights area, with styles such as Queen Anne, Craftsman, and Folk Victorian homes.

Here, we’ll look at a couple of ways architectural lighting may be used to highlight features found on specific home styles common to the Houston area.

Uplighting can draw attention to the classical porch columns found on the Free Classic version of Queen Anne homes.
Wall grazing could highlight the texture of patterned siding sometimes found on Folk Victorian homes or the stucco on some Spanish Revival and Mediterranean homes.

A statue lit up by architectural lighting.

An Equinox Outdoor Lighting technician is working on a light for a statue.

Architectural Lighting Design and Installation

As with all our lighting, our architectural lighting design and installation process is designed to provide you with outstanding lighting that suits your property and meets your needs.

Our process includes the following steps:

Phone call: At the beginning, we’ll talk with you by phone to discuss your architectural lighting goals, costs involved, and types of fixtures you want installed.
In-home consultation: After the initial phone call, we’ll have an in-home consultation with you. During the consultation, we’ll walk your property to better understand it.
Design Options: After we’ve walked your property, we’ll create three lighting designs for you to choose from: a basic, premium, and deluxe version. We’ll explain each one in detail. Once you’ve selected a design, we’ll schedule an installation.
Mounting and wiring: Our first step in the installation process is to mount the lights, set up the transformer, and run the wiring.
Final Adjustments: Once the lighting is set up, we’ll make any necessary adjustments.
Testing: We’ll then test the lighting to ensure it is working correctly.
Instructions: After we’ve finished testing, we’ll explain how your outdoor lighting works so you’ll get the most out of it.

Schedule Your Architectural Lighting Consultation

If you’re a resident of Houston, Texas, or the surrounding area, the team at Equinox Outdoor Lighting & Audio can provide you with exceptional outdoor architectural lighting to enhance your home’s beauty. From design to installation, our architectural lighting solutions will transform how your house is seen at night.