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Turn Your Outdoor Living Area into a Year-Round Fiesta with Permanent Festival Lighting

outdoorlightingofcolorado — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 02:09:35 +0000

Nighttime View of Festival Lighting in Denver Courtyard

Outdoor Lighting Perspectives just completed a truly fun and unique lighting installation – festival lighting for a courtyard at a downtown Denver townhome. The five strands of line voltage festival lights used a total of 44 bulbs (11W each) to span the courtyard between the townhome and its garage at the rear of the property.

With the installation of a 1000W dimmer switch, the lights are now controlled manually and can be dimmed to the desired setting to establish the mood for a party or to just relax at the end of a long day. To support the weight of the electrical wiring and bulbs, stainless steel aircraft cable was first installed for each of the five spans.

Most area residents have seen festival lighting used in Larimer Square and the Denver Pavilions, but may not have considered it for their own properties and outdoor living spaces. Through the use of commercial-grade lighting products and professional installation, now homeowners can truly enjoy this very cheerful lighting at their own homes as well.

Another first at this installation was seeing the live birth of kittens when an alley cat took up temporary residence in one of the homeowner’s large pots on the courtyard. So I guess even alley cats cannot resist the ambience and warm glow of festival lights!

Color Lens Covers For Your Landscape Lighting Fixtures Make Christmas Decorating A Snap

outdoorlightingofcolorado — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:23:22 +0000

: Example of Color Lens Covers

Would you rather be watching a football game instead of dragging Christmas lights and extension cords all over your front yard in the snow? If you already own a landscape lighting system, you’re now in luck. Multi-color acrylic lens covers are available that will install over your existing well lights. The lens covers are available in green, red, dark blue, light blue, amber, purple and orange. In addition, color lens covers are also available for MR16 spot lighting fixtures and color LED bi-pin bulbs are available for path lights.

: Red Lens Covers Used on Well Lights by Front Entrance

Red lens covers work exceptionally well on brick, stone and light-colored stucco. Green lens covers work very well on pine and spruce trees, some deciduous trees, and light-colored stucco. Of course, dark blue and orange lens covers are available to show your support of the Denver Broncos. Some college alumni like to select lens covers in their school’s colors to highlight their home during the college football bowl season. It’s fun and easy to mix and match different color effects from one season to the next. And, some of our customers use the orange lens covers during Halloween, in addition to showing their support for the Denver Broncos.

: Red and Green Lens Covers

Whatever your holiday lighting needs (from color lens covers to a complete turnkey Christmas lighting design and installation), Outdoor Lighting Perspectives still has available inventory to get your home ready in time for the holiday season.

Cody the Airedale Says That It’s Starting to Look a Lot Like Christmas

outdoorlightingofcolorado — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 01:57:23 +0000

: Cody – Santa Claus

With two snow storms during the last week, Cody the Airedale, Outdoor Lighting Perspectives’ (OLP) Director of Security and Fun, says that it’s starting to look a lot like Christmas. In fact, OLP and many other Colorado contractors have already started to install Christmas lights for homes, businesses and communities – in preparation for the lights to be turned on during the Thanksgiving holiday.

Is your home going to be ready for the holidays? OLP’s holiday lighting service includes the design, installation, take down and storage of dazzling holiday displays. In other words, your holiday lighting will magically appear year after year without you having to climb ladders ever again.

Along with a digital photo of your house, we can use our holiday lighting software to show you how your house will look after dark with the design in place.

OLP has the latest in LED technology including snowfall lights, LightLinks, wreaths and garland, mini-lights, C7s and C9s, and amazing 3D sculptures of all sizes. If you prefer the look of the traditional incandescent lighting, we can provide that as well.

If you are a do-it-yourselfer, we can also sell any of these products on a retail basis – and many of these products can be seen at our main office. A very important thing to assess at this time is whether your home or business has available and easily accessible outlets that have remaining capacity to handle the additional load of the holiday lighting.

If we can help you with any of your holiday lighting needs, please give us a call or send us an email.

Outdoor Lighting Product Highlights – 2011 Colorado Fall Home Show

outdoorlightingofcolorado — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:29:02 +0000

OLP of Colorado Exhibit

Just in case you missed the 2011 Colorado Fall Home Show, not to worry – I have included the highlights and a short video tour of Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Colorado’s exhibit including all of our new product introductions.

As an attention-getter, the new LED Snowfall lights were unequalled and they drew young and old alike.

LED Retrofit for Gas Lantern

The Solas Ray LED retrofit kit for gas and electric lanterns also drew a lot of interest as did the new Lighting Control Automation(TM) upgrade for internet-based lighting control with a SmartPhone or tablet.

For more information, please watch the short video tour below:

I hope that you enjoy the tour – and please contact us if you have any questions about these new products.

Come See Us at the 2011 Colorado Fall Home Show

outdoorlightingofcolorado — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:06:09 +0000

The 2011 Colorado Fall Home Show is the only home show that is being held through the end of this year – so please come on down and visit the Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of Colorado exhibit (#514) at the Colorado Convention Center in downtown Denver. Discounted coupons for attending the show are available by clicking here.

SHOW DATES AND HOURS

Friday, September 9 (10:00 am to 8:00 pm)
Saturday, September 10 (10:00 am to 8:00 pm)
Sunday, September 11 (10:00 am to 5:00 pm)

LED Snowfall Lights

Our exhibit will be showcasing the latest in holiday and Christmas lighting products (LEDs, snowfall lighting, kinetic laser, garland, etc.); smart phone and internet-based Lighting Control Automation(TM); and the latest in LED and halogen landscape/architectural lighting. In addition, we will also have an LED fixture on display that simulates the look of a gas carriage lighting fixture.

We hope to see you at the show – please stop by and say hello.

How can you enjoy Christmas lighting without all of the hassles?

outdoorlightingofcolorado — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 19:45:14 +0000

: Christmas Lighting Made Easy

Outdoor Lighting Perspectives (OLP) of Colorado and OLP national have expanded its Christmas and holiday lighting services this year as reflected in our new corporate website. There you will see our emphasis on exterior lighting – residential, commercial, as well as holiday.

With the Christmas and holiday lighting, you can see examples of the designs, products, and installations using our truly unique and high quality LED and incandescent products. In addition, you can even upload a daytime photo of your house, and we can provide you with a nighttime computer-generated design and quote for what one of our design, installation, take down, and storage packages would run on an annual basis.

: Nighttime Simulation of Christmas Lighting Design

This concept is similar to our company’s concept of providing evening lighting demonstrations for our landscape and architectural lighting projects. This eliminates any guesswork and the customer actually gets to see what the lighting would look like prior to making a decision. An example of what the actual Christmas lighting installation (in Castle Pines Village) looks like, can be seen below.

Enjoy the wonderful holiday season!

: Christmas Lighting Installation in Castle Pines Village

: Another View – Christmas Lighting in Castle Pines Village

COME SEE US AT THE COLORADO FALL HOME SHOW

outdoorlightingofcolorado — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 03:26:36 +0000

Come see us at the Colorado Fall Home Show which is being held September 10th thru the 12th at the Colorado Convention Center in downtown Denver. The hours on Friday and Saturday are from 10 a.m. thru 8 p.m. and on Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. We’re located in booth #514.

We’ll be exhibiting the latest in LED landscape lighting products as well as a new and expanded product line and services for holiday lighting. So come on by and say hello.

Holiday Lighting with LEDs Looks Great and Saves Energy Too!

outdoorlightingofcolorado — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:12:20 +0000

I know, I know – the holiday season and Christmas have long since passed – but I’m continuing the highlights of 2009. As you can see in the following photo, Christmas/holiday lighting with LEDs looks great and we’ll be using it for all new Christmas/holiday lighting installations we do in the future.

Christmas Lighting with LEDs

LEDs use only 10-percent of the energy as compared to standard incandescent mini light bulbs. Other important features are that they are very durable with 10,000-plus hours of continuous bulb life and very safe with very cool operational temperatures.

In addition, the epoxy lenses are virtually indestructible and parallel wiring means that if one LED bulb burns out, the other bulbs will stay lit.

CHANNELBRITE PERMANENT LED – 2009 HOT PRODUCT!

outdoorlightingofcolorado — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:10:34 +0000

9NEWS HOT PRODUCT AWARD CHANNELBRITE

As we continue to look back at the highlights of 2009, one of the most memorable was OLP of Colorado’s selection as a 9NEWS HOT PRODUCTS ZONE AWARDEE at the Colorado Garden and Home Show for its permanent LED lighting product – ChannelBrite™. Only nine companies (Hot Products) were selected from over 650 companies exhibiting at the show.

The Hot Products Awardees receive special exposure along with a separate high visibility exhibit in the lobby of the Colorado Convention Center as well as a special live interview segment on 9NEWS prior to the opening of the show.

Hot Products Zone 2009

Closeup of Channelbrite Exhibit

ChannelBrite is a permanent LED solution for both residential holiday lighting as well as year-round commercial applications where business owners want to have their businesses stand out from the competition. The LEDs are rated for 100,000 hours of service. In fact, if you used them 10 hours a day, that would translate into 25 years of service.

A program controller allows you to set the speed, pattern and colors of the light display. The ChannelBrite installation is virtually unnoticeable when not in use and it requires just 10-percent of the energy consumed by normal incandescent lighting.

For commercial applications, a more densely packed LED strip can replace the more inefficient fluorescent lights that are currently used to outline buildings. By using Channelbrite, business owners can call attention to their location in a unique, attractive and upscale way without any annoying light spillover into adjacent businesses or residences.

The ChannelBrite product is backed by a full 3-year warranty. The ChannelBrite display that was in our main exhibit is shown below:

The technology and energy efficiency of this new and amazing permanent LED product are truly astounding. And because ChannelBrite is installed on the structure itself and not below ground (as is the case with landscape lighting), it can be scheduled for installation at any time of year.

Pictures of actual installations/applications follow.

ChannelBrite Virtually Invisible in Daytime

Residential ChannelBrite - Candy-Cane Pattern

Municipal Building with ChannelBrite