Installing landscape lights is a great way to make your property more visually appealing, safe, and secure. But for many people, it is out of their price range to hire the professional landscape designers who design the lighting you see in housing pictures in magazines and on the internet. Luckily, it’s possible for you to achieve the same results that professionals do if you do your homework and follow a few general tips. Here are three tips that you can use when you’re lighting up your landscape.
First, keep in mind that less is usually more when you’re installing landscape lights. You want to use the night to your advantage to set a mood and draw people’s eyes to your property. What you don’t want to do is have your garden look so bright you have to wear sunglasses to enjoy it even at night! A few well-placed lights is always better than a lot of light.
Second, try to use up lights to highlight any architecture that you have on your landscape. This can be statues, fountains, or even just a wall on the side of your house with an interesting texture to it. Using up lights floods the feature with light in the evening from a different angle than the eye is used to seeing it. The strength of light that you need will be determined by how big the fixture you want to light is. Just make sure that you don’t aim the up light in a direction where they might blind people casually passing by.
Finally, think about using outdoor pole lights in areas with a lot of traffic. Outdoor pole lights, cast a lot of diffuse light over a large area. This makes them not a great way to light plants and other objects in your lawn, but it makes them an amazing way to light up high-traffic paths or areas like decks where people will be gathering.
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