Lighting designed around what your house looks like, instead of one line across the front.
The default permanent-lighting install is a single run along the front eave. On a simple bungalow that's exactly right. On a house with gables, dormers, a bay, columns or a two-storey entry, it flattens the architecture — you end up with one bright line and everything above and below it dark.
Accent lighting is the same permanent track, planned as a design rather than a perimeter. Which planes get traced, which get left dark, where the eye should land.
Lighting every edge of a complex roof produces noise. The planning is mostly subtraction.
Each section is independently controllable, so the front can be warm white while the gable peaks sit dimmer, and a holiday scene can run on the primary run only. That's a design decision made at install time — the controller has to be specified for the number of zones you'll want, so it's worth thinking about the whole house even if you're only lighting part of it now.
Accent runs mean more mounting points across more planes of the roof edge, which makes the water-management detail matter more, not less. Every fastener is a penetration in the assembly that keeps water out. Same argument as everywhere else on this section of the site — this belongs with the trade responsible for that assembly.
Yes, and it's a common approach. Tell us at design time that you intend to extend, because it changes the controller we spec — adding zones later to an undersized controller means replacing it.
No. This is roofline and architectural lighting. Trees, paths, beds and driveways are landscape lighting, which is a different system installed at ground level. We'll say so rather than sell you roofline track for a job it doesn't do.
We look at the house, at night if we can. What reads well lit is not always what you'd guess from a daytime photo — depth and shadow do more than coverage. The plan comes before any hardware.
Usually, because it's more linear feet across more planes and more zones. It's priced the same way — per linear foot — so the difference is scope rather than a premium rate. See the cost page for what moves the number.
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