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u/skralogy ยท 2 pointsr/Lighting

I used to install landscape lighting professionally. Couple problems in that picture.

  1. To the right of the house the eave mounted down lights there is only one. There should be symmetry.

  2. Lighting from the eaves down didn't give a good angle and therefore caused hotspotting and bad diffusion of light.

  3. the porchlights and one of the garage lights are 3000k while the rest of the lights are 2700k again symmetry and cohesion is off. This creates artifacts in the overall scene that are not pleasant to the eye also on the porch there is a strange light just hot spotting the window. I have no idea why someone decided to do that.

  4. The downlights that are angled towards each other are at different angles. This does not help define the shape of the house and again affects symmetry.

  5. The whole 1st floor entrance was neglected, the columns being lit would have really tied the house together. Always light entrances slightly more. This visually identifies entrances.

  6. Zero path lighting, uplighting on trees or range in lighting. This is not a complete scene.

    There is no depth, no color, no emphasis nothing. It's a bland portrait and the designer clearly just picked out a couple places for lighting he though was ok. I have to say it. This is bad lighting. It may look good from the untrained eye but this is an example of trying to do too much with too little so they placed the lights to wash over everything. If I was ripple electrical I wouldn't put this on my website or my blog, for customers looking for good lighting they are going to quickly skip this company.

    Here is what I would have done.

    Uplighting instead of downlighting. On the right side of the house 2 8 watt 2700k spot uplights mounted to the right of the windows to accent the white window frames all the way up, angled to catch the eaves as well.

    By the entrance, replace the porch lights with 2700k lamps, light each column.

    On the second story mount three wall wash fixtures to the gutter with 6 watt lamps and a diffusor. Two on the eaves one on the windows. This will provide a subtle contrast to the bottom floor but still allow the white eaves and window frames to pop. It will also eliminate the hotspotting.

    For the garage, more than likely they didn't have the opportunity or consent to mount well lights in the ground facing up on to the garage door and eaves that would be ideal. Otherwise I would have just put one downlight at the center and matched up the garage carriage lights with the same color temp.

    And then some damn lights on the foliage and gate. None of the stone had any light on it, stone has a great texture for lighting it's a shame none was hit.

    Ripple electrical you need to buy this book. This is who I learned from.

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