How Outdoor Lighting Could Increase Your Safety AND Reduce Your Insurance Premiums

Hey, Brian!

I understand that WyEast Gardens can install low voltage lighting outside my house and in my garden. While I know this could improve my family’s safety and reduce break-ins, are there any other benefits?

Thanks!

--Colin, Concerned in Clackamas, Oregon

Hey, Colin!

You are absolutely right!

At WyEast Gardens, LLC, we consult with you to design the best low voltage, landscaping lighting system for your home or commercial property.

Installing a great outdoor lighting system can:

1. Improve your mood and mental state: In Metro Portland, we have long, foggy winters during which we often don’t see the sun for an extended number of days. Having warm, landscaping lighting can lighten your mood.

   a. For those experiencing Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), a type of depression felt most keenly in the fall and winter, landscape lighting is essential to maintaining mental health. About 125,000 adults in Metro Portland alone are affected by SAD.

(According to Psychiatry.org, 5% of American adults experience SAD. In 2020, the population of Metro Portland was 2.513 million.)

   b. If you or a loved one suffers from SAD, designing and installing a landscape lighting program for your home could be the best gift you give this year!

2. Outdoor lighting improves your safety by reducing break-ins and vandalism. According to a study by the New York City’s Crime Lab, outdoor lighting reduced crime at night by a whopping 39%!

3. A proper lighting system reduces your homeowners ‘ insurance by as much as 20% (depending on the carrier).

4. Landscape lighting improves your property value. As interest rates decline, you may wish to refinance your home. Adding outdoor lighting could increase the amount of equity you withdraw.

5. Outdoor lighting improves your outdoor décor and uplifts the ambiance by focusing illumination on a fountain, pond, or other feature or lighting up your deck.

   a. If you have unwanted visitors at night—such as skunks, opossums, raccoons, or squirrels—your new outdoor lighting will discourage them from hanging out in your yard.

   b. Outdoor lighting can protect your pets from pooch pilfering, ravenous carnivores such as coyotes.

At WyEast Gardens, we have experience in designing and installing outdoor lighting which increases your property value while reducing your insurance premiums. Let us help you get started today with better landscape lighting tomorrow!

Your friend in the outdoor lighting business,

Brian Clark

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