Your landscape should be splendorous no matter what time of day it is. When night falls, your landscape becomes a dark and uninspired place to enjoy. Use landscape lighting to liven up your yard during the evening so you can entertain outdoors wherever you wish.
You can use landscape lighting in a variety of ways to highlight certain parts of your yard or to simply give your landscape more illumination at night. Here are ideas for landscape lighting design placement you can speak to your landscape lighting specialist about.
Retaining Walls
If you have retaining walls on your property to prevent soil erosion or to break up your spacious yard, place spotlights on the ground behind your retaining walls. The illumination behind the walls gives off a healthy glow that makes your walls more dimensional and gives your landscape beautiful nighttime appeal.
If you want, you can also place landscape lighting in front of your retaining walls so you can light up the area surrounding the wall with ease. Choose lighting that is flush with the ground for low flood lighting or choose spotlights that you can reposition as you wish to highlight any shrubbery or garden life that grows around your retaining walls.
Walking Paths
Make walking paths safer and more inviting to walk on by having small lights installed on both sides of your paths. The lights should not be large enough to distract from your walking paths' designs, but should be bright enough to give off ample light for safe walking.
Choose soft blue or light yellow lighting for walking paths to give off a healthy and pleasing glow. Round or oval bulbs give off just enough soft light without being a distraction in your yard.
Patios
If you have an outdoor patio, you want the space to be well-lit at night so you can entertain during the evening hours. Your porch lights are often not enough to make your patio comfortable and inviting.
Choose a landscape light designer who can outfit your patio with lush lighting surrounding your patio and porch steps. Lighting can be a bright white for the best illumination, or a soft yellow glow for a more charming appeal.
You can light up your landscape in many ways to give your property greater appeal and a welcoming vibe. Talk to your landscape lighting specialist about all your lighting options based on the size of your yard and your budget.
