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Quality landscape lighting can add value to any home, notes landscape lighting system designer/builder Mike Gambino, but all too often clients aren’t aware of its benefits. As a result, they’re often inclined to reduce or eliminate it as a cost-cutting measure – a tendency he combats with clear communication about what good lighting adds to any setting after dark.

Seeing the Light

The goal of a landscape design is to complement a beautifully appointed home with hardscape, plants and other outdoor amenities. Once construction begins, however, reality sets in for many clients and they begin making trade-offs to trim costs and manage the project's bottom line. Most often, cuts like these take their toll on project elements that swing into place toward the end of a project, where the most significant costs tend to be related to larger plants and landscape lighting. Smaller plants can