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The holidays may have passed by so quickly, but it doesn’t mean that you can’t enjoy flickering lights and festive sights anymore. Today, we’re going to share with you some ways to upgrade your outdoor lighting so that you can illuminate and liven up your home.

Tips For Unique Outdoor Lighting At Home

Let’s cut right to the chase, and check out these amazingly beautiful outdoor lighting options that you can use outside your home:

Solar Mason Jar Lids

Mason jars have risen in popularity because of their classic and sturdy look, making them perfect Instagram accents. Why not use the novelty of this jar for your lighting needs? Some online shops and local novelty stores sell solar-powered Mason jar lids, which consists of a regular Mason jar screw lid and a solar panel lid insert. Put the jar under the sun for at least 6 hours, and this can illuminate your evenings outdoors with a unique twist.

Christmas lights wrapped around posts and trees

Who says you can use these babies only during the holidays? Christmas lights are perfect for outdoor lighting any day of the year, if you ask me. It might be best to choose lights in one to two colors, preferable with LED bulbs for the sake of safety and energy conservation. One great way to showcase this kind of lights is by wrapping them around posts or trees. This can instantly give you the holiday feels even outside the season.

String seashells with lights

Bring the sea into your backyard by attaching seashells to your Christmas lights or string lights. The seashells can mute the glaring illuminance of your bulbs, while at the same time giving you a summer kind of feeling.

Old string lights placed in glass shades

Here’s a quick and easy tip: You can combine old glass shades (that you may have stored somewhere in your home) and some string lights (preferably in one color) to create a nifty outdoor light! Just place the string lights inside the glass shade, and hook up the lights to a power source.

Railing lights

To create a perfect mood lighting outdoors, install railing lights onto the bottom surfaces of your outdoor steps. You can also add it on railings or counters. The effect is a soft illumination without the glare of traditional outdoor bulbs.

Need Help?

Many of these outdoor lighting tips are easy to do. Some of them may require intermediate knowledge on electrical systems.

Wire Craft can help you hook up a new set of outdoor lighting fixtures. Fixtures that are not only visually appealing, but also perfectly safe.

North-western winters can make the days very short, causing it to get really dark quite early in the evening. This often causes trouble when you have to walk from your driveway to the front door, hoping that you don’t step on something or trip and fall. If you have been experiencing that lately, you definitely need your outdoor lighting to be upgraded. Here is how we will help you upgrade your outdoor lighting to not only make your winter brighter, but to pinpoint and fix other problems too.

We Will Discover the Cause of Dim Lights

In some cases, homeowners have the necessary lighting installed, but their driveway still looks dark. This could be a problem related to high-voltage appliances in the house or a wire corroding with time. Whatever the case is, if not fixed on time, this could lead to costly hazards. Wire Craft Electric will find out the exact cause of your dim lighting and fix the problem for good.

We Will Install Efficient Lighting to Achieve Winter Bright

When the day is short and it gets dark early, it means you will have to keep your outdoor lighting on for longer duration. This adds up to your monthly electricity bill. If you don’t have efficient lighting installed, the difference can be significant. We will install effective lighting to save you money on your monthly bill.

We Will Install the Right Lighting As Per Your Needs

You want your driveway bright and your house to look good from the outside, but you are not sure how big of a bulb will be best to use as your outdoor lighting. You can always pick a brighter bulb yourself, but what you might not realize is that this bulb will use a lot of electricity. On the other hand, we pick our lighting components and products with experience so you get more brightness with less power consumption.

We Will Make Reliable Connections

There is a huge difference between outdoor and indoor lighting—outdoor lighting takes a beating thanks to the elements. Non-professionally installed outdoor lighting can result in loose connections that will become a source of worry in the coming months. However, the professionals at Wire Craft Electric use their experience and knowledge to install your lighting. This is so that it stays fixed in place through chilly winters, hot summers and even powerful storms.

Call us today to keep away the gloomy darkness of winter and for any electrical issues in your house. We also recommend you to prepare your house for storms and winter chills. Give us a call and protecting your electrical system from any damages.

Your backyard is your oasis. It’s a place to go to relax and have fun. Your kids love being outside, enjoying the little slice of nature that belongs to you – whether it’s to make snowmen in the winter, or to play a competitive game of volleyball in the summer. You enjoy having a place to go outside, to get away from it all and find a little peace and quiet. There’s a way to make your backyard pop even more, and that’s with outdoor lighting. Here are some tips on how you can use proper accent lighting outside.

Imagine waking up in the middle of the night, no security lights, and you found an intruder inside your home. The intruder’s risking their life and freedom to steal your valuable belongings, as well as putting you and your family in jeopardy. It sounds like something taken from a movie, but this isn’t as unheard of as you think. Home invasions and burglaries have been on the rise the past few years in the Greater Seattle area. Here’s just one case in Renton where multiple burglaries have gone on without any surveillance or deterrents. And just because you’re inside the house or have deterrents to keep robbers at bay, you could still be at risk. So what can you do to protect yourself from being a victim? Let’s start off with some facts.

The Seattle Facts

In recent years, the greater Seattle area has seen an average of 6,836 burglaries reported by Seattle Police Department. Though in the last few years it’s been on the rise. 2015 alone had just over 7,500 reports. This might not sound so bad, thinking there is probably million homes in Seattle right? Wrong. Around 283,610 occupied housing units in Seattle puts a staggering 2.41% chance of your home being burgled. But is the gamble worth it?

You Can Lose It All Before you Win the Lotto

We all probably dreamt one time or another about winning the lottery.  The Washington Lotteries statistics shows there are seven lottery games you could possibly play.  I’m going to use Match 4 as a reference. It costs $2 per ticket and could potentially have you win $10,000. Although, its winning percent is a mere 0.01%. This means if you put $482 every year into this lottery, you will have the same chance of winning versus being broke in Seattle.

Reduce Your 2.41% Chance with Security Lights

There are a lot of options in home security, but one of the easier and cheapest security updates is to add security lights around your home. It’s well-known that burglars despise lights, most steal in the dark and when a light suddenly comes on from their motion, most run in fear or stop in their tracks to assess their situation. Erin Raub did a write up at Safety.com about 8 burglar deterrents to consider (and 5 to avoid) and motion-actived security lights definitely fall into the list of deterrents. Of course, coupled with installing security cameras – you can become your very own vigilante Judge Dredd like this construction site in Mountlake Terrace and put crime at its knees with video surveillance to help solve crimes and help prosecution.

At the end of the day, it’s best to invest into some sort of deterrent or security system to keep your home safe. The more security you add, the less likely chance you have of being robbed. If you leave yourself wide open with no deterrents, you will be fed to the birds. On the contrary, the birds will be fed by you. If you are interested in motion-activated security lights, surveillance camera and/or alarm system, contact us today or give us a call to see what we can do to help keep your home safe.

If you need help, you can contact an electrician from Wirecraft to help you out.