Outdoor & Holiday Lighting Specials at the 2012 Colorado Fall Home Show

Posted on September 7, 2012 by outdoorlightingofcolorado

 

The 2012 Colorado Fall Home Show is underway and Outdoor Lighting Perspectives is running some exciting outdoor and holiday lighting specials for those folks who stop by to see us at the show.

We are exhibiting the latest in outdoor lighting solutions and technology including –

  •  Architectural & Landscape Lighting – LEDs and quartz halogen
  • LED retrofits for gas lanterns
  • Lighting Control Automation™ to control interior and exterior lights
  • SmartPhone control of your lights – or of any other devices
  • Holiday Lighting including LEDs, LightLinks, laser lights, lightsculptures and snowfall lights

 7-Light Special (Halogen)  

  • 7 well lights with acrylic lens covers
  • 300W multitap transformer
  • Timer controls
  • Wiring and complete installation – total price installed=$1,499 (Regular price $1,985) – offer good thru October 31, 2012

10-Light Special (Halogen)Holiday Lighting Special

  • 7 well lights with acrylic lens covers
  • 3 copper path lights
  • 600W multitap transformer
  • Timer controls
  • Wiring and complete installation – total price installed = $2,100 (Regular price = $2,995) – offer good thru October 31, 2012

Holiday Lighting Special

Get a free 3-foot lighted wreath with each turnkey holiday lighting package at or above $1,500. This special cannot be combined with any other holiday lighting offers. Offer good through October 31, 2012.

In order to qualify for these specials, you must register at our exhibit at the show. We look forward to seeing you there.

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See the Latest Landscape, Architectural and Holiday Lighting at the 2012 Colorado Fall Home Show

Posted on August 18, 2012 by outdoorlightingofcolorado

The 2012 Colorado Fall Home Show is less than 3 weeks away – so plan on visiting Outdoor Lighting Perspectives (OLP) of Colorado (Booth #514) at the Colorado Convention Center in downtown Denver. 

 

Show Dates and Hours

  • Friday, Sept. 7           10 a.m.  –  8 p.m.
  • Saturday, Sept. 8      10 a.m.  –  8 p.m.
  • Sunday, Sept. 9         10 a.m.  –  5 p.m.

Multi-Color Glowing Christmas Orbs

At the show, OLP of Colorado will be exhibiting its latest energy-efficient products for architectural, landscape, and holiday lighting including new LED landscape lighting fixtures and LED retrofits, internet-based Lighting Control Automation™, LED retrofits for architectural lighting, and the latest LED holiday lighting products such as the glowing orbs shown at left, as well as wreaths and lighted sculptures.

Discounted tickets are available at King Soopers, at the ticket counter at the convention center by donating canned food, or by clicking on and printing the discount coupon below:

2012 CO FAll $2.00 off Online Coupon

Stay tuned to our blog to see a listing of our show specials. We hope to see you at the show!

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Saving Energy Increasingly Becoming More Important for U.S. Families

Posted on June 12, 2012 by outdoorlightingofcolorado

In a recently published study by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research entitled ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND INDEPENDENCE: HOW THE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDS, LEARNS AND ACTS, has indicated that American families rank energy issues very highly after the economy, education, and health care.

As reported by Dina Cappiello of The Associated Press, she writes that

as summer beckons, it seems Americans are thinking more about the stifling cost of energy than about making tracks to the beach.

In the bar graph above, you can see that saving money on energy costs is the second-highest ranked priority by the respondents to this survey. At Outdoor Lighting Perspectives (OLP) of Colorado, we have seen a very strong demand by both new and existing customers for the latest LED lighting fixtures. In almost every case, the homeowners expressed a strong desire to decrease their energy usage.

In the U.S., previous studies have determined that residential lighting accounts for as much as 15-percent of a household’s total energy budget. Until recently, almost half of this energy usage dedicated to lighting had been wasted due to the use of inefficient bulbs (incandescent), the use of higher wattage bulbs than needed for effective illumination, and the fact that lighting systems were not automatically controlled.

The low voltage LED lighting systems (new and retrofit) that OLP of Colorado has been installing will provide a homeowner an energy savings of as much as 82-percent over the previous quartz halogen system. Later this week our crews will be retrofitting an existing customer’s lighting system to LED, and I will report our progress in a future blog post.

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Do People Actually Light Up Their Chimneys?

Posted on May 19, 2012 by outdoorlightingofcolorado

Chimney Lighting in Cherry Hills Village

Well, believe it or not – they do and for good reason. Most landscape and architectural lighting professionals tend to develop their list of favorite things to light up, and for us it has been residential chimneys. Many custom home builders in the Denver market (Suderman Homes, Bond General Contractors, etc.) have also taken chimney design and construction to a whole new level. And since the chimney is the highest and most visible architectural feature of the house, it definitely creates a focal point of the house and property – during the daytime and after dark with lighting.   

Close-Up of Lighting Fixture

On some houses, the chimney is not visible on the exterior of the house until it emerges from the roofline. With regard to lighting the chimney, that creates a challenging but not insurmountable problem with mounting the lighting fixture to achieve the proper lighting effect. In the photo, you can see a close-up of our factory’s cast brass spot light (20W MR16) that is mounted in the copper gutter along the eave of the home. After the fixture develops a patina, it will blend in perfectly with the rest of the gutter.

The good news is that most chimneys are visible on a home’s facade all the way to the ground level, and these of course are much more easy to light up. For this configuration, well lights can be installed in the ground to provide up-lighting on the chimney. 

Oftentimes, surprises can occur during evening lighting design demonstrations when you are setting up the lights for the chimney. On several occasions we have awoken nesting birds and have irritated bats. But the most memorable occasion was when we set up the lights for the chimney and noticed an impish gargoyle sculpture playfully smiling back at us. We still have homeowners ask us whether we were the ones who lit up the gargoyle down on so and so street. So just remember, with evening lighting design you are painting with light – and there’s absolutely no reason that you cannot make it whimsical and playful. 

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