What do step and brick lights do to add to outdoor lighting?
RLLD’s impressive selection of step lights and brick lights represents a wide range of options for the decorator with both function and ambiance in mind. Step lights and brick lights in brass fixture molds provide aesthetic compliments to many traditional and contemporary-style wall sconces and hanging lanterns. For decorating darker colored bricks, we carry copper lights that blend seamlessly into the background of their surroundings.

What do step and brick lights look like?
They are either flat or protrude slightly from the surface of the wall, casting the light downward. The majority of our brick lights and step lights are molded in the louver design, which resembles a small “grill” with the fins pointing downward. This focuses the light on the ground where people need to see to walk, and keeps the glare from hitting the eyes. When brighter lights are required for extra security and safety, RLLD brick and step high voltage fixtures provide both extra lumens and a wider distribution of landscape light.

For more ambient lighting conditions, low voltage brick lights and step lights offer a wide range of opportunities to highlight and accentuate key outdoor lighting themes along areas of human traffic. We also carry several brick lights in contemporary fixture design called “post sconce lights.” These eclectic peripherals can encircle a patio in light and bring a modernesque touch to the area. RLLD brick and step lights feature all major bulb types and designs as well. Many of our bulbs are designed with maximum energy efficiency in mind and feature bulb life of up to 2,000 hours.

Can commercial lighting designers benefit from brick and step lighting to their proposals?
RLLD strongly recommends that every lighting design firm offer step and brick lights to its clientele if nothing more as an optional line item. This is because many clients may not want to invest in lighting poles or hanging fixtures. Step and brick lights also provide an extra touch of physical safety in an area where even the most coordinated people often trip—the stairs. Any commercial facility hosting events at night can reduce the risk that guests could fall and injure themselves by installing step lights on the stairs themselves and brick lights in adjacent walls. Even from a purely decorative perspective, brick lights offer great value and benefit. High-end clients such as country clubs and resort hotels that host events near pools and patios, or have formal dining areas outside, can add ambiance, convenience, and utility with step lights and specialty deck lights found in this section. We also help individual homeowners for

Are step and brick lights easy for the individual homeowner to install?
Normally, yes. If you run into difficulty, we will be happy to help you either over the phone or through our Ask and Expert e-forum. Increasing numbers of homeowners are decorating with step and brick lighting because these innovative fixtures offer both increased safety and enhanced decorative appeal. Many people like to install them both around the deck and around pool areas, finding them to be simple and relatively low-maintenance, hazard-free items. Children and pets can safely play around step and brick lights without risk of injury, and since so many of our fixtures are low voltage in nature, there is no risk of fatal electric shock from a 12V device. Safety, and convenience, and efficiency not only equate to more comfort and peace of mind, but also reduced energy costs which makes home entertainment simultaneously attractive and desirable but not so expensive as to have to limit the joy or length of events.

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