By Mike Gambino If you own a landscape lighting business, that means that every day you're faced with choices. You make choices about how to market your business, how to interact with clients, and how to conduct yourself and your business. Sometimes these choices cause us...
By Mike Gambino For Landscape Lighting design and installation professionals, losing sales or profit from property owners doing their own online shopping has been a concern for a long time. Recently I have read other blogs attempting to deal with this practice so obviously it is...
By Mike Gambino Kit form and Plug and Play landscape Lighting lacks three critical essential elements- PASSION, EXPERIENCE and ART. The push for dummy proof lighting that takes the art and technical skill out of the installation and appeals to the do it yourselfer or generalist...
By Mike Gambino When we purchase a physical product, such as a new car, Oven, or sofa, we can see what we are buying. We can touch it, sit down on it and often, we can even test the product before handing over our money. But in...
By Mike Gambino There’s much to be said about a well-maintained lawn and an alluring garden. For starters, the property instantly communicates that there has been considerable TLC put into the property. This is even more true after dark with spectacular custom garden lighting. By showing a...
By Mike Gambino The short answer is that it's very difficult to quantify as it's similar to other forms of art. The value is not the sum of the individual components (cost of the fixtures and transformers) it's in how these materials are used to create...
By Mike Gambino In the world of luxury property and home ownership it is often reasoned that high quality landscape lighting systems are not implemented due to the significant cost of acquisition as well as their future operation costs and maintenance. There are certain preconceptions of...
By Mike Gambino If you’re considering a low voltage landscape lighting system today, you are also probably considering installing an LED low voltage landscape lighting system. As we work with hundreds of people throughout Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties and beyond each year we...
By Mike Gambino It doesn't always take a trained eye to realize how bad some landscape lighting is. Some is just so awful that is evident to all who view it. All light is not awesome – but when it's done right it’s what allows us to...
By Mike Gambino 6 most common landscape lighting mistakes For all the information provided on this website and blog on creating, nurturing and maintaining architectural, garden and landscape lighting, some myths continue to lead to common landscape lighting mistakes. The difficulty in sticking to good lighting methods...
