For many homeowners, one of the best features of their outdoor space is their use of outdoor smart home lighting. From architectural lighting to decorative lanterns and walkway lights to automated pool lights, these additions to your property can make any landscape look warm and inviting.
Smart Home Lighting for Landscapes
Smart home technology is a bonus to most lighting options. You can automate when the lights turn on and off, how they appear at certain times, change with the seasons, and save money through energy efficiency. Outdoor lighting can do more than highlight your yard’s best features. Here are five reasons why outdoor lighting is highly beneficial.
Safety
If your property has a long driveway or walkway to the entrance, outdoor lighting can highlight the path, so walkers don’t miss a step or trample your flowerbeds. Outdoor lighting also plays a significant role in pool safety or other outdoor hazards that may cause someone to trip or fall. Relying on street lights or just the light from a neighbor’s house to guide you and your guests isn’t the best idea. Incorporating path lights along walkways is a much more practical and safer solution.
Security
According to the FBI, burglaries occur once every 22 seconds. With that in mind, there’s no doubt homeowners are looking for the best ways to protect their property. Authorities have long suggested that lighting can help to deter crime. Thieves typically skip targets that appear like they would be easily seen, like well-lit areas. Adding outdoor lighting to your comprehensive security system helps protect your home.
Outdoor Living
We often look for ways we can extend our living space. Adding lighting to your backyard and patio areas is one way to add additional square footage to your home to enjoy after dark. Warm and inviting lighting can create the perfect space to entertain or keep the party going, especially when the days get shorter with less daylight to take advantage of the outdoors.
Decor and Holidays
When you think of holiday lights, images of Clark Griswold’s dazzling display of string lights covering the whole house may come to mind, but today’s outdoor lighting can do much more! With automated technology and the opportunity to match the lighting scheme to whatever holiday you celebrate, your house will be ready to go. Not only that, you don’t have to risk life and limb to install the lights every year.
Curb Appeal
In today’s real estate market, curb appeal can be everything. The proper lighting can not only highlight some of the best features of your home but can also give you an edge over other properties. Generally speaking, any additions and upgrades to your home can increase your property value. Smart home lighting for outdoor areas, being a technical addition, is one way to increase the curb appeal and potentially increase your home’s market value.
Smart Home Technology Experts
Today’s smart home lighting technology can make any outdoor space safe and comfortable. Intelligent Living Solutions installs smart home lighting both indoors and outdoors. Our company’s roots were planted in outdoor landscapes and lighting before we focused on incorporating smart home technology indoors and outdoors. Plan a visit to our Smart Home Experience Center to see lighting options and smart home technology in action.
Testimonials
Julia Reynolds
What a wonderful experience! The Intelligent Living Solutions team was punctual, professional, and knowledgeable. They worked long hours to finish our TV installation project and had positive attitudes. I trusted them to be in our home and would 100% hire them again for a project.
Amie W.
Intelligent Living Solutions did a great job installing our outdoor sound system! They were able to do it quickly and it sounds great!
Jenny Neese
Great Company…. Excellent Customer Service… Highly recommend. Amazing pricing for the quality of their work and product.
Adam Fromson
This team is amazing! They installed climate and SAUNA automation!! Now I can grab my phone and get the sauna in the backyard cooking up to 190+ degrees without an extra trip out in the cold. Great work, will definitely rehire them again.
Nicholas Moore
Dan installed a setup for our office to help streamline our patient flow and automation. The displays he picked out for our X-rays were fantastic. Start to finish I knew I was getting quality products installed with great service. He helped the design of it and we could not be happier. I highly recommend Dan’s services!
Nancy Bate
Dan Killinger is fantastic. We love our new window shades. They look great and are easy to operate either manually or with a remote control. Dan took down our old blinds and installed the new ones in less than half a day. He left our family room perfectly neat and clean, and he took away our old blinds and hardware. We couldn’t be more pleased.
Lee Huffman
I had Intelligent Living Solutions out to install security cameras around my home. This company was very professional from start to finish. They are very good at communication and were very pleasant to work with. The installation crew was great. They showed up on time, well dressed, and well spoken. They completed the work quickly and cleaned up after themselves. After the installation they walked through step by step on how to use my system. Very pleasant experience.
Alan, Control Tech Heating and Air Conditioning
Dan and his crew were on time, courteous, respectful and gave a fair price, delivered as promised with quality workmanship. I have used them in my business as well and when a problem occurred, I wasn’t put off. It was dealt with in the same manner as all of the other work – with integrity and pride.
Rob Michels
ILS is a great local company. We have partnered with them to do the Tech work that we don’t do. Access control, security systems, AV as well as structured cabling. I have also used them for Landscape lighting and AV for residential applications. Thanks ILS!
Heather Pomeranz
Dan and his team are incredibly professional! The technology is really cool and Dan takes the time to understand your needs to truly find the best solutions for you.
Mark Perry
I was very pleased with the professional service and the technical experience Dan displayed during the installation of my Yamaha sound system with my Direct TV, Blu Ray player, XBOX 3 . I also had speakers mounted. I highly recommend their service for quality and affordable professional service.
Brent Emerick
Dan did an excellent creative planning installation putting up a cell phone signal repeater (not Air Wave) to increase our cell phone reception in the house. I appreciated how well he understood the fundamentals and details of installation, as few others could even understood exactly what we were trying to accomplish. The experts online explain how this is a tricky installation but Dan knew how to work through the process to get the best results.
Brian Wenrick
Professional and timely communication, a pleasure to work with. Quick estimates with competitive pricing. Worked with our completion schedule to keep the project on time!
Nicholas Garn
Total professionals from beginning to end. We were very impressed with the level of communication and service. Dan and his team won’t leave you disappointed.
Marc Fairchild
IL is a home technology powerhouse. They have consistently demonstrated the highest level of service, integrity, and creativity!
Ryan Samuelson
No matter the scope of your home automation project, Dan has the products & the tools to meet your needs. He was thorough, knowledgeable and overdelivered on our home upgrade. I highly recommend Dan to all my friends & clients.
Russ Miller
Outstanding service! Dan’s team was on time and took great pride in their work. Very professional and courteous. We are very happy with the system they installed for us and would highly recommend them!
Cherie Ihnen
I did not realize I had my alarm set and went to the basement to shut off the light that had been left on. The alarm went off and I feel like I was already getting my call from Intelligent Living Solutions while running back up the stairs. It makes me feel good to know the response time is that fast.
Candy Riggins
The process was efficient, staff were professional, and communication was superb!
Amore Pizzeria
Dan has been instrumental in our success and growth, the tech he has installed for us allows us to be a more efficient business. Dan and his team are always professional, punctual, and on (or under) budget. They are the best around.
Luke Reynolds
Dan and Heather are amazing! They were fully devoted and invested into our home alarm. Dan took the time to understand our needs and custom create solution that fit our budget. We are looking forward to our next project with Intelligent Living Solutions!
Jared Kerstiens
Dan came to my house in July and did an install only of a home theater system (projector, screen, in wall and in ceiling speakers etc). Where needed he upgraded the wire and included wires for 4k streaming even though my devices weren’t 4k capable (yet). I would highly recommend Dan for installs, and for full home Theater solutions. I will be using him again in the future and would happily recommend him to anyone that asks.