Highlight Architectural Features with Soffit Lighting
Architectural lighting is the art of illuminating spaces, emphasizing the aesthetic and functional aspects of buildings and environments. It involves the strategic placement of light sources to highlight certain architectural features, create ambient outdoor lighting, and improve visibility.
The correct implementation of architectural lighting not only accentuates structural design but also contributes to the overall mood and experience of a space, whether it’s for residential, commercial, or public settings.
Under architectural lighting, there are various specific sub-classifications that have their own uses, with soffit lighting being one of the most popular.
What Is Soffit Lighting?
Soffits are the spaces underneath an overhang, be it a projection from a roof, under the eaves, or the overhang of a porch. Soffit lighting, therefore, is lighting that is mounted on the soffit pointed downward to either wash a wall or provide task or ambient lighting for a space.
Using soffit lighting in buildings and homes provides a variety of benefits that can encourage its installation, such as:
- Ambiance and curb appeal: Soffit lighting is highly effective for enhancing your home’s exterior aesthetic and boosting curb appeal. This can be beneficial for improving the overall resale value of your property.
- Highlighting architectural focal points: Soffit lighting can also be used to highlight specific architectural focal points or features of your home, drawing attention to or underscoring the most beautiful parts of your household.
- Safety: One of the main advantages of soffit lighting is its practical applications. It can provide valuable ambient lighting to illuminate the property under the eaves, which is especially useful for shedding light on any walkways that encircle the grounds. It can also extend the usability of your outdoor spaces.
- Security: Providing adequate lighting under your home’s overhangs can help discourage loitering and trespassing, giving you peace of mind as a homeowner or business owner.
Why Use LEDs for Soffit Lighting?
Employing LEDs in soffit lighting applications offers numerous advantages over older lighting types, including but not limited to:
- Energy efficiency: LEDs are extremely energy efficient, which means smaller energy bills for home and business owners. Our high-quality LED lights can produce over 100 lumens per watt, resulting in utility cost savings.
- Longevity: LEDs are enormously long-lasting compared to other forms of lighting and can last for many years. All of our LED light strips are rated to last up to 50,000 hours—that’s up to 8 hours per day for 17 years!
- Durability: Since LEDs are not “bulbs,” they cannot break or burn out in the conventional sense. They are also resistant to temperature and humidity fluctuations. We carry outdoor and wet location-rated LED lights that are perfect for these types of applications.
- Reliability and safety: Unlike alternatives like fluorescent lighting, LEDs have no warm-up period, ensuring durability and consistent performance throughout the year. Also, LEDs, unlike fluorescents, contain no mercury or toxic heavy metals. Most of them don’t reach high temperatures, making them safe to the touch even after prolonged use.
- Light quality and output: LED lights produce excellent light quality and luminous output. We offer flexible options in tunable white that can be dimmed and adjusted in color temperature as desired.
- Flexibility in design: Soffit lighting can be used in various settings, including residential homes, commercial buildings, and public spaces, making it a versatile choice for exterior lighting. You can choose from static white, tunable white lights that can produce any shade of white within a range of 2700K to 6200K, or even color-changing RGB lights to choose from hundreds of color combinations.
- Seasonally appropriate: Specifically, our color-changing RGB lights can be adjusted to any time of year, making them perfect as holiday lights around Christmas, the Fourth of July, Memorial Day, Halloween, and more. This is something that many of our clients love about our lights.
Work with One of Our Project Developers to Complete Your Project
In addition to high-quality LED soffit lighting, we also offer access to our project developers who can help you with your design project, free of charge. Get in touch with us today, and we will help you bring your vision to life!
