Halloween night will be here before we know it, and if you live in a Central Indiana neighborhood, you’ll probably be expecting a lot of trick-or-treaters. Light up your home to welcome them this holiday with help from the outdoor lighting experts at Luminocity. We know how to highlight the landscaping and home features you wish, while downplaying other areas. Our eye for lighting design will turn your home into a happy Halloween home, rather than feeling like a shadowy haunted house. 

Draw attention to the entrance

When spending time outside for a holiday like Halloween, you want to draw attention to the entrance of your home, or wherever you’ll be meeting trick-or-treaters with candy. We can help you use lighting to highlight the top features of your home by knowing what type of fixture is best suited for each task, what lighting effect is desired, and where each specific fixture should be placed in order to achieve the desired effect for great design. 

Incorporate well-lit pathways

As you invite trick-or-treaters to your home, make sure that they can easily find their way in the dark by incorporating path lighting. Our lighting professionals can use well-lit pathways and driveway lighting to help make your house look warm and welcoming, as well as illuminating potential obstacles, including stairs. We can even add hardscape lighting to your stairs or path for a seamless look that provides beauty and safety night after night. 

Utilize motion sensors

If you usually only have a few trick-or-treaters (or other Halloween guests) you can try out motion sensors to light up tricky areas of your walkways to navigate. Although we recommend some areas of your home be lit up all night long for security, motion sensors are a great way to conserve energy and save money, only coming on when needed. 

Increase security with floodlights

We hope your Halloween night is a happy one, but pranks and tricks can be common with young adults this time of year. Thankfully, studies show that a well-lit home is a major deterrent to vandals, correlating with at least a 39% decrease in crimes at night. Our lighting experts can offer you a professional consult to identify the best spots to place your outdoor fixtures, including floodlights, spotlights and bollards for your family’s security. 

All treats, no tricks with our AMP

Halloween may be an important night for outdoor lighting, but we think proper illumination is important all year round too. With the Luminocity Annual Maintenance Plan (AMP) we’ll keep your system operating at peak efficiency, replace any burnt-out bulbs over the next 12 months, and if there are any minor service needs, such as repairing a cut wire, we’ll take care of that at no charge.

Plus, Luminocity’s professionals are members of the Association of Outdoor Lighting Professionals, as well as the only Certified Low Voltage Lighting Technician and Certified Outdoor Lighting Designer in Indiana, so you’ll know you can trust our team. When you’re ready to upgrade your outdoor lighting this fall, it’s time to “trick or treat yourself” to a consultation with the Luminocity lighting professionals. Call us today at 317-537-8055 or schedule your next appointment online.

One question that customers frequently ask us is whether adding outdoor lighting to their house will increase its value and reduce their house’s time on the market. After doing some research, it is clear that outdoor lighting does add value to your home, especially when it is coupled with well-done landscaping.

Judith Patriski, an appraiser and owner of Quad Realty Company. near Cleveland, Ohio strongly believes that good lighting adds value to homes. In an article by the National Association of Realtors, she estimates that for upper-bracket homes investing in outdoor lighting can yield a 50% return. Much of this return stems from the significant curb appeal that outdoor lighting gives your home. Guests and prospective buyers may see your house for the first time after dark, and a well-lit house offers a warm and inviting welcome. Patriski writes, “When you pull into a driveway and see a gorgeous home, you’re going to pay more for it.”

A strong majority of home buyers say that they specifically look for outdoor lighting in a prospective house. In the National Association of Home Builders’ annual survey “What Home Buyers Really Want”, 41% of people rated outdoor lighting as “essential” and 49% rated it as “desirable.” Altogether, 90% of survey respondents believed that outdoor lighting was important. The National Association of Realtors agrees and praises the many tangible benefits of outdoor lighting, including that it protects against slips and falls, accentuates the good features of your house, and welcomes guests by highlighting the front door. Prospective buyers value these benefits and actively seek out houses with outdoor lighting.

Outdoor landscape lighting works best hand-in-hand with excellent landscaping. Good landscaping can add as much as 28% to the value of your home as well as reducing the time that your house spends on the market by 10-15%. However, landscaping must be seen in order to increase your house’s value, and prospective buyers may see your house for the first time at night. Luminocity has many years of experience installing outdoor lighting that highlights key features of your yard, including trees, bushes, fountains, and pathways. A well-illuminated yard allows prospective buyers to appreciate your landscaping even when they view your house at night, adding to its curb appeal and ensuring that they return later for a second look.

Outdoor lighting also highlights the best architectural features of your house. It can illuminate your front porch with a soft glow or highlight the stately columns of your grand entrance. In addition to adding to your house’s nighttime beauty, outdoor lighting can simultaneously make your property a more difficult target for intruders. Outdoor lighting eliminates areas of deep shadow in your yard, reducing the likelihood that your house will be invaded. Some insurance companies give 5%-15% discounts to homeowners who have reduced or zero claims, further adding to the value of your outdoor lighting.

Whether you are entertaining dinnertime guests or showing your home to prospective buyers, a well-lit home offers an inviting and warm welcome. It increases a home’s curb appeal and highlights your home’s special features, ensuring that other people appreciate your home just as much as you do. If you are interested in increasing the value of your home and increasing its attractiveness to guests and prospective purchasers, contact us today for a free estimate.

Every day newspapers and TV news programs report on crimes. Two million home burglaries are reported each year in the United States. A burglary happens every 13 seconds in the U.S. That is very scary. No one wants to join the statistic but what can be done?

Security systems are expensive and complicated. They don’t deter criminals from approaching your home, rather they primarily report break-ins.

Keeping your doors locked will help keep unwanted guests from entering your home. But what about steps to keep nefarious characters from even coming on your property at night? One of the best deterrents is a well-lit home. A well-lit home will likely encourage the burglar to pass on the house that has lighting and move on to a dark and scary home. When choosing a home to rob, a criminal will select a dark home where he won’t be seen.

Having a well-lit home is no guarantee that a home will not be broken into, but it can be a significant step in minimizing being a victim of a break-in. Police regularly tell homeowners to lock their doors and keep lights on to enhance home security. It only costs pennies a day to operate a landscape lighting system – a small price to pay for a safer home. Your home and family are too valuable to not protect. Lock your doors and light your home.