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The Art of Landscape Lightingby Barbara Jennings, CRS/CSS Would you let an electrician landscape your home? No? Then why do you let landscapers install the lighting for your home? When it comes to lighting, a landscaper does not provide, usually the expertise or quality that a homeowner expects and deserves. Even if a landscape architect designs the system, chances are it won't be as good as an electrician would do. If the systems are installed incorrectly you may experience dim lighting, ineffective design, no maintenance plans, no strong product guarantees. You may often find that inappropriate systems fail after two years. Lighting is critical to great design and curb appeal. Light can mesmerize, energize and relax you. Light dances through your trees, bushes and plants imparting a gracious relaxing atmosphere. When you light up your exterior in the right way, you bring out the hidden beauty and charm of your home in a way that can only be accomplished at night. Good Alternatives When you hire a professional to help you, they should listen to your desires and translate your desires into a personal lighting design that is unique just for you. They recognize that lighting is difficult to visualize. A good professional should be able to demonstrate various lighting effects for you and it's best done at night, of course. Once you can see the effects, you'll know what you want at that point. Requirements Usually a professional will require very little of your time. They can use fixtures and a portable battery pack to show you the difference lighting can make. You'll be amazed at how your home will come to life when lighted properly. You should request the following from your hired professional:
Barbara Jennings, is a leading home staging and interior redesign trainer. Author of 9 books on decorating, she is one of America's leading experts on how to start, manage and grow a home staging or interior redesign business. More Quick Tips Business and Mortgage Loans, Part I 2006 Copyright HomeStaging4Profit.Com |
ANNOUNCING! HOME STAGING FOR YOURSELF! PRE-SALE  At last the perfect check list for staging your home. This brand new 80-page guide is so comprehensive, it will virtually leave no stone unturned in its quest to help you completely stage your home to sell for the highest price possible in the shortest time possible. Developed for the homeowner as well as the professional stager, this professional check list guide is exhaustive, helping anyone to tackle the awesome job of determining what needs to be done to prepare a property for sale, and do it in a logical sequence that makes total sense. No long dissertation on how to do it, it just give you in bulleted, outline format the "to do" list for every spot in your home, beginning at the curb and ending in the back yard and every place in between. You'll love it. So easy to use. So thorough. If you're a stager, use the Guide to help you in your consultations. If you have a homeowner who insists on doing all the work themselves, give them the Guide as part of your consultation service, or sell it to them as an additional value-added product to augment your consultation. Absorb the cost as part of your consultation fee, or pass it on to your client. If you're a homeowner and aren't working with a stager, use the Guide as your personal, custom guide for preparing your own home for sale. If you then decide to hire a stager, give them the guide with your personal notations included so that you make sure they do every task you have circled in the outline or detailed in the notation places. The Guides are currently in transit and will be available as soon as they arrive. We expect an early run on them, so get yours immediately, as we may run out. Homeowners can purchase a single copy to assist them; professional stagers can buy them at a discounted price in small quantities. For more details, visit: Home Staging for Yourself |