By Mike Gambino This winter we received a call from a prospective client to come out to consult and provide a quotation for a new project to illuminate 3 large statues that the owners had just imported from overseas. Like many of our projects, this call...
By Mike Gambino As many already know, adequate lighting is a critical part of keeping the exterior of your home safe. Even though lighting is very important to home safety, a lot of homeowners don’t look at their lighting as being an integral aspect of safety....
By Mike Gambino Bringing out textures at night that may go unnoticed during the day creates interest and attention in the landscape after dark. In the photo below from this recently completed Gambino LED landscape lighting project in Beverly Hills California. It is the architectural walls...
By Mike Gambino Beside cost this is probably the single most asked question and or objection I have received over the years from prospects who are interested in lighting their gardens. Our intent is not to recreate daytime conditions or what some people call creating "Disneyland"....
By Mike Gambino This is the first question that should be considered when planning landscape lighting for your property. What is the purpose, the end result that is to be achieved in order to determine the proper effect which is desired. There are four basic purposes for...
By Mike Gambino Here is a project update on the current estate landscape lighting project we are working on. We have been able to get most of the top side of the property completed along with the frontyard. We are continuing this week on the long...
By Mike Gambino Here are some photos of a project on a large estate we are currently working on in Bel Air California. It is a rather large project with a very well maintained and established garden which meanders over the multi leveled property. It is...
By Mike Gambino This blog post is precipitated by the fact that we are currently getting many phone calls and new projects to replace LED landscape lighting systems installed by others. These systems are not very old and some had just recently been installed. One extreme...
By Mike Gambino As mentioned several weeks ago here, Gambino landscape lighting is now designing and installing high performance landscape lighting systems with all LED light sources. Here is a recent project that we completed using all LED light sources especially designed to work with Gambino landscape...
By Mike Gambino A common problem during the landscape lighting sales process is trying to find out what a client is budgeting for a particular project. Clients are always hesitant to throw out a number, and landscape lighting designers and contractors know that without a...
