Pressure Washing Your Santa Barbara Driveway Dirt, oil stains, and even tire tracks can detract from the look of a driveway over time.  So too, however, can cracks and chips, and therefore it’s important to learn the proper techniques for keeping your driveway looking clean and spiffy.  Hiring a professional driveway cleaning service [...]

Santa Barbara Unplugged – Using Outdoor Solar Lights If your approach to outdoor lighting is environmentally sustainable, flexible, or perhaps a little non-committal, solar lighting is the way to go.  This energy-efficient and easy-to-install way of lighting your garden and outdoor living areas is bursting with options that go beyond just the pathway [...]

Sustainable Outdoor Lighting Being outside during the mid-summer in Santa Barbara can be intolerably hot and uncomfortable until the sun goes down.  So, having outdoor lighting is an important landscape element for most homeowners.  Not only does it enhance safety on your property and enhance the architecture of your home and landscape, it [...]

Outdoor Lighting for Walls In Santa Barbara, many of us have small garden spaces enclosed by delightful stucco walls or solid fencing that creates a sense of privacy while enhancing out outdoor spaces.  So, enter the need to light up these vertical surfaces at night.   Fortunately, there are a number of ways to [...]

Landscape Lighting in Santa Barbara We spend so much time analyzing the sun exposure in our landscapes that often its appearance at night goes by the wayside.  But, as roughly half of our days are spent in darkness, outdoor lighting ought to be considered as an essential part of every landscape design.  Lighting [...]

Front Yard Lights We spend so much time thinking about how to make our backyard more livable, including at night, that we often forget how impactful a good lighting scheme can be for our home’s front landscaping.  Front yard lights can be welcoming, can provide added security and safety, [...]

How to spruce up your landscape, even if your budget is tight Container gardening has many benefits, not the least of which are their impactful beauty, great versatility, and easy care.  Whether your garden pots are used to grow impressive annuals or healthy vegetables and herbs, watering them is a key part of [...]

Pressure Washing 101 While there are a number of good reasons to hire out your pressure and power washing jobs, some homeowners might be willing to purchase the equipment and add this task to their list of regular seasonal chores.  But do you know the basics?  The first one is, this isn’t anything [...]

Why Does My Property Need Professional Pressure Washing? Home ownership in Santa Barbara comes with a long list of things to keep up with and remember to do:   Have the furnace and air conditioning serviced every year.  Test and change the batteries in the carbon monoxide and smoke detectors twice a year.  Check [...]

How to spruce up your landscape, even if your budget is tight There is nothing like a tidy landscape to inspire in us a pride of ownership.  How our homes are viewed from the outside are, in our minds, a reflection of what is inside, and therefore it is the landscaping that we [...]