Re: [mh] Driveway considerations (very slightly off-topic)

[Jason S. <ja...@sh...>]

I would probably look into UV glow paint, and place some strategic UV-CF 
bulbs or UV Flood that can light it up.  Dont know if it would provide 
adequate light for your needs though.

Then you can get all creative and paint arrows, crop circles, etc ;)

On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Scott Knight wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Our home has a really poorly designed driveway that is going on 20 years 
> old and quickly deteriorating.  I am making plans to completely redesign 
> the front yard with a new driveway configuration and was hoping someone 
> here could at least point me in the right direction on a few ideas...or 
> confirm that I have lost all my marbles and should just abandon them all ;)
> 
> The front yard is about 105 feet wide and the home sits back 112 feet 
> from the road, which means that it is pretty poorly illuminated at night 
> with just the 4 lamps mounted on the front of the house (controlled by 
> MH with 2 motion sensors).  The driveway will be concrete and somewhere 
> on the order of 3000+ square feet.  Needless to say, I am not going to 
> heat that monster of a slab, so this Pittburgh-based driveway will 
> require plowing in the winter.  Since I have nearly an acre to mow, I am 
> trying to reduce the number of lawn based obstacles (all trees will be 
> gone as well).
> 
> Those considerations pretty much rule out the 'landscape', 'driveway', 
> 'garden' and 'yard' lighting products I am finding during my many hours 
> of searching.  As a last resort, I will consider some flood lights at 
> the edges of the property, but am not all that fond of them since they 
> are typically ugly and introduce a lot of glare.  What I would really 
> like is some kind of light that actually sits in the surface of the 
> driveway.  That way they could be useful while still being quite dim.  
> Runway lights come to mind.  A lighted brick would also work.  
> Completely flush with the surface, can be driven over, etc.  Does such 
> things even exist and if so, where do I start looking?  Google is not 
> turning up anything useful.
> 
> BTW, if anyone has any tips for driveway design, feel free to email me 
> offline.  I want this to be nice, with stone pillars by the entrances, 
> lighted street numbers, etc.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Scott Knight
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