By Mike Gambino Designing and Building a fantastic landscape lighting system is absolutely a collaborative effort between the project owner and the lighting system designer/builder. But lately it seems, some consumers who are in the market to buy a professionally designed and installed landscape lighting system...
By Mike Gambino Here is a system we recently installed in Sherman Oaks, California. This client came to us after they saw one of our lighting systems in their neighborhood. The property is gated so they couldn't knock on the door. However they liked what they...
By Mike Gambino I was pleased to be notified this week that an article that I wrote for Watershapes magazine for their February 2008 print magazine has been digitized and is now available in its entirety complete with my photos here on their website http://watershapes.com/images/archives/indexed/WaterShapes200802-Gambino.pdf I have reprinted...
By Mike Gambino For the past two years we have been installing hybrid LED/halogen landscape lighting systems. Soon we will be 100% LED so stay tuned as that announcement is coming soon. The more we use LED lighting the more we have become comfortable with offering...
by Mike Gambino Nothing exemplified the importance and value of expertise better than last Monday night NFL football's debacle created by replacement referees on the final play of the game on national television. It is estimated that 250 million dollars were lost on legal bets on...
By Mike Gambino This blog is mostly written with my client in mind from my perspective and for the benefit of those who have one of my landscape lighting systems installed or are thinking about or are planning on one. However this blog article is mostly for...
By Mike Gambino I saw this sign while waiting to have my truck serviced recently. I had to take a picture of it and got inspired to do a blog post about it. In my much younger days I would read this sign with amazement...
By Mark Carlson, Safety- This is probably the most important issue because it can have the most adverse impact on the consumer. Let’s look at this seriously and in a way that is real for the consumer. There is a safety concern with low voltage landscape...
By Mike Gambino This week I am featuring Mark Carlson of Avalon Landscape lighting. A landscape lighting industry consultant, design/builder, colleague and friend from Roseville Northern California who I have much respect for. Mark Gets it. He can be reached via his website http://www.avalonlighting.com/ By Mark Carlson ...
By Mike Gambino When I come across a failed landscape lighting system I always wonder who's fault it is. Was it the owner who insisted on buying based upon low price? Was it the lighting system provider who promised a good end result and did not...
