Landscape Lighting: Tips and Ideas
Take a look at your front and back yards. Go ahead. We’ll wait.
They’re pretty nice, right? Do you know how you can improve their appearance even more? With some well-placed landscape lighting.
Maybe you’ve never thought about illuminating your property beyond your front and back door. You may not even know where you would start if you had to place light fixtures in your yard. No worries – No Fuss Lights has some suggestions to kickstart your imagination.
- Think about the three outdoor lighting layers: overhead, task, and ambient. Overhead is the primary illumination so you can see the actual space (and where you’re going). Task is for discrete spots like barbecues, seating areas, outdoor bars, and other places where you may need additional light to perform a specific function. And ambient is designed to add the overall aesthetically-pleasing glow to any space.
- Envision “outdoor rooms.” With walls inside a home, space separation for lighting purposes takes care of itself. But outside, try to picture where people may congregate (or where you might want to spend time alone, like by a pond or in a garden) and configure your lights to illuminate that space.
- Use “hooded” lights. In many instances, simply placing a light can produce unwanted glare from one or more angles. That’s why certain types of landscape lighting (especially for paths and walkways) use “hooded” lights, which direct all of the brightness downward onto the ground.
- Decorate for an “inside view.” When you’re not outdoors enjoying your landscape lighting, you may want to sit by your window and admire your illuminated yard. Keep that in mind when placing and setting up outdoor lights.
The experienced professionals at No Fuss Lights have lots of great ideas on how to make your outdoor space even brighter and more spectacular. Give them a call today at 281-809-7021 and a lighting specialist will come to your home – so you can pick his brain and get a free estimate for landscape lighting in your yard.