Exterior lighting to Enjoy Year Round
Exterior lighting is the best way to extend your outdoor usage. With daylight savings coming quickly and our sunshine hours being limited, incorporate outdoor lighting for a magical feel.
Outdoor lighting for your home and landscape not only enhances the value of your property and expands your nighttime living space, but it also accents key features of your home to extend enjoyability day or night. With daylight savings coming on November 6th our gorgeous sunlight hours will be limited and we still start seeing sunset earlier and earlier. The best way to beat the winter blues is by adding exterior lighting to your home.
Best Lighting Accent Areas for your home
There are several areas around your property and home that you can consider adding exterior lighting. Adding outdoor lighting doesn’t only extend your outdoor usage it also creates a magical feel. Consider these areas when thinking about exterior lighting.
- Trees
- Stone Walls
- Water Features
- Walkways and Stairs
- Outdoor Living Space
- Planting Beds
- Landscaping Barrier
Types of Exterior Lighting
Path Lights
Mounted in the ground, path lights generally reflect light downward and sideways into planting beds and enhance the textures. They often line and illuminate walkways, pathways or steps. When used on a pathway, these types of lights might be staggered, alternating from one side of the path to another.
Uplights
The most common technique used in outdoor lighting, uplighting creates shadows on the walls to accent key focal points and towering trees. The shadow enhances the design of the object, commonly a tree or other prominent feature. Uplighting dramatizes features through illumination from below.
String Lights
String lights can be used to string between two structures (house and tree, house and shed, post to post on a deck) or even just strung along your house and deck railings. These small LED lights provide a lot of light and are great for entertaining and using your outdoor space at night.
Bullet Lights
Traditionally resembling a bullet, these lights have a more direct, narrow beam. Very versatile, they’re used for lighting trees, home accent features and other garden structures. There is a wide variety of styles, beam widths and lumen output with bullet lights, which gives quite a few more options when designing landscape lighting.
Downlights
Downlights are just like they sound: they are aimed down from a higher point. The shape of the casing lights up paths, or illuminates lawns. Downlighting is also known as moonlighting as it resembles moonlight coming in through leaves and branches. Downlights are often installed under the eaves of houses as well as on trees.
Advantages of LED Lights
LED lights are absolutely the lights of the future. They are more energy efficient, have a much longer life span, produce significantly less heat and have consistency in light output. Many LED lights feature heat sinks or temperature sensors to ensure a fixture won’t overheat, making them safer than incandescent bulbs. They are a great addition to your outdoor lighting plan.
Professional Outdoor Lighting
Some of these systems can be implemented yourself but hiring a professional might be the right way to go. Certified professionals like Venyscapes understand the needs of your landscape, how to light it, and most importantly, we will follow local ordinances. Proper lighting design and implementation of electrical codes will reduce the need for maintenance or adjustment.
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One response to “Exterior Lighting To Enjoy Year Round”
[…] Landscape lighting is an easy addition to the home. Some lighting you can even add yourself, but others it is best to leave to the professionals. By adding downlight from your mature trees, path lights or simple string lights over your patio can really add a magical feel to your home. This is the perfect preparation for the upcoming winter and something you can enjoy for years to come, no matter what season we are in. […]