Outdoor Lighting for Businesses: Storefronts, Patios and Entrances|What Commercial Outdoor Lighting Is Really For After the Sun Goes Down|Lighting a Commercial Building

Your building works after hours whether you light it or not

A commercial building gets seen by traffic long after the doors lock. Unlit, it is not part of anyone's evening, and so does the business in it. Light keeps a building in circulation.This is not a cosmetic line item for a business. A building people can find, recognize and walk up to comfortably after dark is doing work every evening. It is infrastructure, not decor.

The front of the building

The facade carries further than the sign does. Lighting that highlights the shape of the building gives you something people recognize before they can read anything. Brand colors on the facade do a job the sign is not doing.

Entrances, walkways and outdoor seating

Poorly lit entries are a silent leak. Make the way in unambiguous from the road. For restaurants, the patio is capacity that only exists if it is lit. Warm, low and glare free: the same rules as a home patio, with more riding on it.Buildings change hands and managers move on, which is exactly why the plan should live in a file rather than in a conversation.

Neighborhood and community entrances

Community entries carry the identity of the place. Light on the entry structure and its landscaping reads as maintained and cared for. Homeowners associations and developments run this as a standing property decision, not a seasonal one, though seasonal color at the entrance is a common addition.

Install timing

The process is the same: look at the building, draw the plan, install it. The difference is scheduling, almost always. Install windows get built around your schedule, so it belongs in the first conversation.

One system, every season

A permanent system gives a business something a seasonal install cannot: the building can change color on a schedule with no crew involved. Holiday colors in December. Orange in October. Team colors during a season. A brand palette the rest of the year. Nothing to arrange each year, which matters most to whoever handles the building.

From the car to the entrance

Between the parking space and the front door there is a walk somebody has to take. People notice a dark walk even when they do not mention it. Lighting https://evercrestlighting.com/about/ the route is not glamorous work, and it changes the experience more than the facade does.Buildings get lit in stages all the time. Start where the building faces traffic, then move to the parts customers walk through.

The next step

Every commercial building presents differently from the road, so the design starts on site. EverCrest Lighting does commercial outdoor lighting for retail, restaurants, offices and residential developments throughout Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina, out of Greenville. Consultations are free. Call (864) 252-1732 or email [email protected].

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