Outdoor Lighting in Johns Creek, Georgia

Less than on most. The channel mounts to the fascia or trim and is colour-matched to it, so on a brick elevation with painted trim it sits within the trim line rather than against the masonry. Where an elevation has stone returns or an unusual trim colour, the match gets specified rather than pulled from stock.

Almost certainly not on a house of this type, and any installer who says yes to this question without seeing the property is selling linear footage rather than designing lighting. Lighting every plane on a complex roof flattens the architecture and makes the house look institutional.

The site visit exists to answer this. We stand where you stand when you come up the drive and work out which lines give the house its shape.

On many Johns Creek properties that is the better project, and on some it is the whole project. Uplighting mature specimen trees, grazing the brick or stone, and defining the drive and front walk produces a result that photographs better and reads more expensive than roofline lighting alone.

It also phases well. Front elevation and specimen trees this year, rear and pool surround next, on a transformer sized for both from the start.

By where it sits rather than by disguising it. The track runs in the shadow line — tucked under the gutter lip, or along the top edge of the fascia — so that in daylight you are looking at an edge that already existed.

Colour matching does the rest. The channel is available in finishes that read as white, black, brown or bronze, and matching it to the fascia or gutter rather than to the brick is what makes it disappear. On a house with several trim colours it is normal to use more than one finish across different runs.

The mistake that makes hardware obvious is mounting it on the face of the fascia rather than under the edge, which puts a visible strip at eye level on the approach. It is faster to install that way, which is exactly why it happens.

They stay dark, deliberately, and that is usually the decision that makes the house look considered.

On a roof with six or seven planes, outlining all of them gives you a drawing of a roof rather than a lit house. Picking the two or three that define the silhouette from the street — the main gable, the front edge, perhaps one dormer — reads as architectural. The rest of the roof does not need a line on it to be understood.

This is the single most common thing people change their mind about between the first conversation and the design visit, almost always in the direction of less.

Yes — Johns Creek, Alpharetta, Milton, Roswell, Duluth, Suwanee and the surrounding north Fulton and Gwinnett communities. Call (770) 630-4653 to arrange a design visit.

Most single-family houses are a day. A complex roof with several planes, a second storey needing a lift, or a design that includes landscape lighting can run into a second day.

The design visit is where that gets established, so the date you are given is based on your actual roof rather than an average.

Mainly through what they cover. A heavily canopied front elevation may have most of its roofline hidden from the street for half the year, which changes where the lighting is actually worth putting.

On those houses the better result often comes from lighting the trees themselves and the approach, with a shorter roofline run than the house would otherwise take. That is a design conversation that needs somebody standing in the street looking back at the house, which is exactly what the design visit is for.