Lights.com—Landscape Lighting
Landscape lighting can brighten your life and offer a creative way to showcase your home. Although landscape lighting is still relatively simple-a few recessed can fixtures lining the front path and some downlights tucked in the trees could complete the job. Today, one of the biggest excitements in outdoor lighting is the whole artistic aspect.
Landscape lighting offers a creative way to showcase your home and property after dark. Lights can dramatize trees, highlight favorite shrubs and accent statuary when properly placed. Perhaps the major challenge with landscape lighting is choosing from among all the possibilities.
Creative Landscape Lighting
Outdoor lighting can be both functional and aesthetic. It is a creative art, however, to understand how much light to place on a house or determine where the focal points are. To light your landscape correctly, key in on architectural features. Uplight an arbor, archway or facade for a dramatic effect.
Try washing the side of the house with a splash of light or graze a textured fence or wall with a focused beam. Illuminate the water in a pool or pond with submersible lights. Silhouette a tree or bush by placing lights below and behind the object.
If you want to focus on function, install low voltage lights under handrails, stairs and bench seating on decks to light things up for outdoor entertaining. Use stronger beams to shine over an outdoor activity area like a basketball court.