The word is free
Custom appears on almost every outdoor lighting quote in existence. The word no longer distinguishes anybody. What is worth checking is whether there is an actual design behind it, since one of those produces paper and the other produces a number.Keep that straight through the whole process. A package is a price with a description attached. A design begins at your house. Both are legitimate ways to sell. Only one of them answers to your building, and you deserve to know which you have.
What a design contains
A plan is specific to your building. Scope should be written down feature by feature, because the front of the house means two different things to two people. It says what color temperature the everyday setting will be. It says where power comes from. And it accounts for the unlit areas, deliberately.
The sequence that protects you
A price without a design is a guess wearing a decimal point. Two quotes can look close and mean nothing alike. With a plan on the table, the number means something. When the price comes first, the design gets shaped to fit the number, quietly.A plan you understand is also a plan you can hold somebody to, which is the practical reason to insist on one rather than accepting a number and a handshake.
Your part in the design
A good design conversation involves a lot of asking. Where do you walk after dark. Do you use the back yard in the evening. Is this mostly a holiday purchase or an everyday one. Do you host. Those answers change the plan more than the architecture does.
Design lets one plan cover several jobs
Roofline, landscape, accent, patio and security work all tend to come up. Piecemeal buying produces a property with lighting rather than a lit property. One plan, phased if it needs to be, holds together.
Revisions
A design is a proposal, not a verdict. You can remove things without needing a reason beyond not wanting it. If it comes back to you unchanged, with
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The plan should end up in your hands
A design should exist on paper or a screen after the conversation ends. It matters if the property changes hands, when you add the second stage, or when somebody needs to know what is buried in that bed. The design is part of what you bought.
Getting a design for your property
The design starts with somebody walking your property. EverCrest Lighting does custom outdoor lighting design and installation covering permanent roofline systems, landscape, accent, patio and security lighting for homes and businesses throughout Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina, from Greenville. Consultations are free. Call (864) 252-1732 or email
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