By Mike Gambino Once again I am amazed at the poor and potentially damaging misinformation in regards to landscape lighting on public access message forums. One recent post titled 12V vs. 14V really made my blood boil because its truly the blind leading the blind. Here...
By Mike Gambino Recently I have noticed a disturbing trend where some dedicated landscape lighting companies have either reverted back to offering a more diverse range of services outside of landscape lighting in order for their business to survive or have gone out of business entirely. My...
By Mike Gambino At times I find myself explaining what goes on during a Gambino landscape lighting on site design consultation. The following is a very accurate description of the process and what one can expect to occur during a site meeting. Try not to go into...
By Mike Gambino The new original Garden Lighting book written by F.B. Nightingale, myself Mike Gambino and Mark Carlson will be available for sale early December. The cost of the 8 1/2” X 11” full color soft cover book will be $45 plus the cost of...
By Mike Gambino The arrival of the new original Garden Lighting book written by F.B. Nightingale, myself Mike Gambino and Mark Carlson has been delayed. Mark was erroneously notified that it had shipped 9 days ago. We have been trying to find out where the shipment...
By Mike Gambino The new original Garden Lighting book written by F.B. Nightingale, myself Michael A. Gambino and Mark A. Carlson will be available for sale late next week. The cost of the 8 1/2” X 11” full color soft cover book will be $45 plus...
By Mike Gambino I am writing this blog post as a rebuttal to one that I read earlier this week entitled: Why I don’t Want LED Fixtures That I Can Work On Below is the blog article reprinted in it's entirety. Below the article will be my response...
By Mike Gambino That’s an easy one to answer not one. None, zero, zilch, nada. Anyone can call themselves a lighting designer. Traditionally, landscape and landscape lighting industry professionals have kept design at somewhat of arm’s distance, meaning ours is an industry that, for the most part,...
By Mike Gambino Recently at a maintenance service, a client told me that he was in the market for a new home coffee maker. Turns out that he's in the market for not just an everyday ordinary coffee maker, but for a new coffee machine of...
By Mike Gambino This article is not about any particular episode or client. I am fortunate to have great clients for the most part and very thankful for that. In fact it’s been quite awhile since one of these types of calls has ruined my day....
