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Your Home, Safe and Welcoming With Exterior Lighting

Newtown Square Friends & Neighbors, August 2022

Lighting around your home’s exterior can provide safety, security, and a sense of pride and enjoyment in daylight and especially at night.

Landscape lighting around your home can range from a simple wall light to a spectacular scene. Today, light fixtures and light bulbs are available in a seemingly endless variety of sizes, shapes, designs and colors. And the quality of lighting systems and fixtures ranges from plug-and-play like what the “big box” stores sell with little or no warranty, to bronze fixtures that have a lifetime warranty.

With advances in wireless bluetooth technology, the internet and WiFi, lights can be controlled from your handheld device, desktop computer, laptop computer and so on. The ability to turn lights on and off at any time of day and even to adjust light levels are all in your control, depending on how sophisticated you want to be.

When choosing landscape lighting fixtures, your choices are plentiful. A few of the many applications are path lights, up lights, flood lights, lights that wash light on walls, lamp post lights, and lighting in masonry walls along paths and around pool decks.

A lighting system doesn’t need to be elaborate to be effective. Path lighting that’s pleasing to look at in the daylight becomes a practical safety feature at night. Most times, just a few simple lights strategically placed can make your home quite pleasant to look at. For a more dramatic effect at night, use up lighting that washes your home’s features, trees and shrubs in light. Some home security lighting systems can even easily integrate with your home’s landscape lighting plan, flood lights and your video doorbell/camera system.

When considering starting a new lighting plan, upgrading what you have or just repairing your home’s current light fixtures and bulbs, take a look around. Go to the internet and have fun searching products, systems and accessories. You might also take a drive at night, to observe other homes’ lighting effects and get ideas for what might be best for your home.

Whatever you decide your security and landscape lighting needs are, be safe in what you do. If you’re a do-it-yourself type of person, have a blast. But if you’re not confident or skilled with electrical projects, you should consult a professional. Electricity is our friend when used safely and wisely.


About The Author

Electric Services
Andrew Martella
Martella Electric Company
484-498-2965

Andrew Martella, owner of Martella Electric Company, began his electrical training as a 14-year old apprentice to his father, Carmen, who inspired Andrew’s Code of Ethics in service to his customers, his employees and to his community. Formally trained in Energy Engineering, Andrew’s expertise has guided Martella Electric for more than 32 years in association with Electricians Success International, reserved for only the top 1% of all electrical companies in the United States. Now in its 3rd generation of service to Delaware County and the Main Line, Martella Electric Company is known for its unparalleled Expert Electrician reputation for trusted service at a fair price, and for its ongoing referrals from prior customers in over 60+ years of service to our community.

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