Artfully Illuminate Community Spaces
At Silver Bells, we illuminate HOAs and municipalities with the artistry of landscape lighting, transforming communal spaces into enchanting realms of safety, aesthetics, and social connection.
Enhance Safety & Security
Landscape lighting plays a crucial role in ensuring the safety and security of common areas within HOAs and municipalities. Properly lit pathways, parks, and gathering spaces create a well-lit environment that deters potential risks and provides residents with peace of mind.
Boost Curb Appeal
Well-designed landscape lighting enhances the visual appeal of community entrances, signage, and architectural features. By illuminating key elements, your HOA or municipality can create a welcoming and aesthetically pleasing environment for residents and visitors alike.
Extend Usability
Landscape lighting allows residents to enjoy community spaces even after the sun sets. Parks, playgrounds, and recreational areas can be used for evening strolls, picnics, and other activities, enhancing the overall quality of life for community members.
Foster Community Engagement
Well-lit outdoor spaces encourage social interactions among residents. Whether it’s a neighborhood gathering or a community event, landscape lighting creates inviting atmospheres that facilitate connections and strengthen community bonds.
Highlight Landmarks
HOAs and municipalities often have landmarks, monuments, and public art that contribute to the area’s identity. Landscape lighting accentuates these focal points, showcasing their significance and adding a touch of civic pride.
Sustainable Solutions
Efficient LED landscape lighting is an eco-friendly choice that aligns with sustainable practices. LED technology reduces energy consumption and maintenance requirements while providing excellent illumination for outdoor spaces. With Silver Bells’ low-voltage landscape lighting, you can further reduce ongoing power and maintenance expenses compared to traditional line voltage systems commonly installed by electricians.
Added Property Value
A well-lit community enhances property values for homeowners. Landscape lighting creates an attractive and inviting environment that potential homebuyers find appealing, making your HOA or municipality an attractive place to live.
By opting for Silver Bells’ low-voltage landscape lighting, your community benefits from expert design, efficient LED technology, and reduced ongoing expenses compared to traditional electrician-installed systems. Say goodbye to unsightly fixtures and poor placement, and embrace the artful illumination that transforms your community spaces into vibrant and captivating environments.
At its most basic level, landscape lighting involves strategically selecting and placing fixtures to illuminate outdoor areas, enhancing their aesthetics and functionality. Low voltage systems use transformers to convert standard household voltage to a safer 12 volts, providing energy-efficient illumination.
One common misconception is that landscape lighting is only for illuminating plants or pathways; while these can be good starting points for basic designs, landscape lighting often includes highlighting architectural features, water features, entertainment areas and structures, and so much more. Similarly, the vast techniques and fixture types utilized by skilled landscape lighting designers go far beyond up lights on trees and walkways studded with pathway lights.
We know you’ve seen it…that home with the outdoor lighting that just doesn’t quite look right. It’s the one draws your eye at night but lacks luster and an awe-inspiring impact. Unfortunately, bad outdoor lighting is common. At its worst, landscape lighting may look like:
However, at its best, landscape lighting design is truly an artform. While there are many contractors that “do” landscape lighting, few in the Boise area are true designers with the skill, training, and commitment to craft a thorough and proper outdoor lighting design that seamlessly blends form and function to create an artistic masterpiece tailored to the unique features and needs of your property. But lucky for you…you’ve found us! Silver Bells is ready to bring the art of illumination to your home or business and truly reveal it’s full potential after dark.
Landscape lighting enhances curb appeal, increases property value, and provides safety and security. It also extends your outdoor living space into the evening hours, creating a welcoming atmosphere to enhance everything from a relaxing evening at home to elegant events or lively parties. For many Treasure Valley residents, landscape lighting is an effective way to battle the “winter blues” of seasonal affected disorder. And let’s be honest…an artful landscape lighting design is truly just a pleasure to experience and enjoy every single night – whether you’re outside amidst the lights or admiring them through the window. Give yourself permission to bring resort style living home with a quality design and installation by Silver Bells.
Not with a lighting system designed by Silver Bells. One of the easiest ways to spot a poor lighting design or installation is one where the lights are obnoxiously bright. Not only does this completely wash out color and texture (which is quite literally the EXACT opposite of what we want), but overly bright lights can be annoying to you and to your neighbors. The same is true of poorly placed lights. This is an area where skill and expertise truly matter more than you might guess in selecting the right lighting partner for your project.
The sooner, the better. We almost always have more design options and can often save you money by being involved on the front end of the project. We collaborate regularly with other contractors to ensure that proper prep and planning for your lighting is a seamless component of your upcoming project.
Our landscape lighting systems can be controlled manually or through advanced control options such as cloud-based apps, timers, and astronomical timing. This allows you to adjust the lighting intensity and schedules according to your needs.
Yes, our fixtures are built to withstand outdoor conditions. They are constructed with durable materials and are weather-resistant to ensure long-lasting performance.
You bet! Our designs are flexible and adaptable. As your preferences or landscape change, we can adjust the lighting to maintain a stunning and functional aesthetic.
Getting started is easy! Contact us to schedule a free consultation where we’ll assess your property, discuss your goals, and design a customized lighting solution for you.
Landscape lighting can be energy-efficient when designed and installed with the right fixtures and techniques. Here’s how:
As for the cost of running landscape lighting, it can vary depending on factors such as the number of fixtures, wattage, and how often they are used. However, with energy-efficient LED fixtures and careful planning, the cost of running landscape lighting can be relatively low. The average landscape lighting system designed and installed by Silver Bells costs less than a Starbucks coffee per month to run.
Yes, we can integrate your landscape lighting with other systems such as home automation, allowing you to control your lights remotely and create personalized lighting scenes.
Yes, our landscape lighting products come with manufacturer warranties, and we provide an additional 1-year labor warranty on permanent installations to ensure your satisfaction and peace of mind.
While it’s tempting to use the same contractor for multiple services, such as landscaping and outdoor lighting, there are several reasons why it might not be the best choice:
While your landscaper may offer outdoor lighting as an additional service, it’s essential to consider whether they have the expertise and resources to deliver the level of quality and service you expect. Investing in a project with a dedicated outdoor lighting specialist can ensure that you achieve the best results and maximize the value of your investment in your outdoor space.
Nope! Our professional outdoor lighting systems can be adapted to accommodate plant growth, landscape layout changes, customer preference changes, etc. In fact, getting started with landscape lighting while landscaping is young can be a great way to spread out the financial investment as well. For example, you may have a young tree now that can be properly and aesthetically lit with a single up light…in a few years when the tree is larger and more filled out, we can adjust placement of that single light as well as add an additional one to provide proper illumination for the tree’s new size and shape. We work with young landscaping often and plan and prepare accordingly for these adjustments in a way that minimizes future costs.
While solar lights offer convenience and affordability, they do not provide the same results as professional lighting for several reasons. Here are some of the glaring problems we see from solar lights:
Ultimately, while solar lights from Home Depot or Amazon offer convenience and affordability, they may not provide the same level of quality, performance, customization, and durability as professional lighting. If you prioritize achieving optimal lighting results and long-term reliability for your outdoor space, investing in professional outdoor lighting is a worthwhile consideration.
Absolutely! This is one of the many features you’ll get to explore when you meet with one of our designers.
Ooh, baby! Buckle up because we are geared up and ready to knock your socks off with this one! BUT…don’t hate us…the answer to this question is kind of like our “secret sauce” and we just can’t bring ourselves to divulge more here. So, tuck this one in your back pocket and get ready to see color in a whole new light when you meet with one of our designers.
We can say this…we’ve seen grown men get absolutely giddy—jumping up and down, hooting and hollering—when we demo how and why color should at least be considered for every project. We can’t wait to show you why!
We love these kinds of thoughtful questions! The fixtures themselves are very durable and backed by solid warranties. To be blunt, they can take a beating in a way cheap fixtures just could not tolerate. Our design team is very skilled at accounting for these needs and selecting proper fixtures and placements to minimize disruption from kids and pets. We also offer ongoing maintenance plans and services to “tidy up” periodically to account for not only any disruptions from littles or animals, but also normal wear and tear such as foot traffic, erosion, weather, hard water from sprinklers, and so on. So, while you may want to hold off on buying the luxury velvet couch if this phase of life is filled with sticky hands and acrobatics, it certainly shouldn’t hinder the outdoor lighting you’ve been dreaming of.
Absolutely! Most clients prefer that we also handle the installation and any ongoing service needs, but we can also provide a custom design and layout for a fee. Fees for design-only services start at $1,500 and are based on the scope of the project.
