By Mike Gambino The phone call couldn't have come at a worse time as we are currently in the midst of a large project and have several more in line to start after its completion. This is on top of the interspersed maintenance jobs on several...
By Mike Gambino Like most businesses, the custom landscape lighting industry is a relationship business. The best work is typically done when a project is viewed as a partnership between a client and custom landscape lighting design build specialist. We have been fortunate to have great...
By Mike Gambino The outcome of a landscape lighting project can often be predicted by how well the homeowner does their planning – planning done before a landscape lighting design build contractor is even selected for the project. Why, you ask? Because landscape lighting projects tend to run...
By Mike Gambino You’ve heard the horror stories. Someone hires an unqualified landscape lighting contractor, and a nightmarish ordeal begins. The contractor turned out to be bad. The construction is shoddy. The project gets delayed for all sorts of reasons, leaving the homeowner’s backyard in...
By Mike Gambino If you want great landscape lighting, you’d better make sure you hire a great landscape lighting designer builder. Unfortunately, when it comes to local contractors there isn’t always a lot of information to go on. That’s why it’s so important to ask the...
By Mike Gambino For many people, the majority of daylight hours are consumed by work, travel, family time or other commitments. With residential water features, owners should consider the time when most likely they will actually be able to enjoy them. Often it is well after...
By Mike Gambino The green industry, or otherwise known as, the outdoor living industry, has significantly grown over the last several years. Homeowners are seeing their outdoor living spaces as part of their homes. They're investing in development of their outdoor living spaces and spending more...
By Mike Gambino “Bespoke (adjective) (Of goods, especially clothing) made to order: ’a bespoke suit’” — Oxforddictionaries.com "Bespoke" is a term, more common in Britain than here in the US, for things that are made to order. For example, I would love to get a bespoke suit someday. A suit...
By Mike Gambino Landing a new client takes a lot of time, effort and resources. So once we have them, wouldn’t it be nice to keep them for years to come? To make clients happy and improve their outdoor living areas, we can do the landscape lighting construction...
By Mike Gambino I relay this recent news event because so much of it rings true about the way most people buy design build landscape lighting services that there are many parallels to this story to simply ignore it. Those buying low price most always end...
