Landscape lighting transforms the appearance and safety of your building at night and it can highlight any area of your building. Let’s have a quick look to illuminate your yard with landscape lighting

1.Purpose for Landscape Lighting

Before you invest in any landscape lighting, think yourself what your purposes are for wanting illumination in your yard.They are

• Safety
  Landscape lighting offers safety. Adding lighting around walkways and stairs prevents unwanted and harmful falls. These will ensure safety for people.
• Security
  Motion detector landscape lighting will illuminate when anything or person activates them. If someone walks through your yard, your lights will turn on. This will give you added security for your home.
• Décor and Appeal
  By using decorative landscape lighting around various spots will transform the areas into the focal points of your outdoor space. The decorative lighting can be positioned around plants, waterfalls, – anything you would like to showcase
• Added Comfort
  Landscape lighting provides comfort to your outdoor space.

2.Types of Landscape Lights

Choose the type of landscape lighting that fits your needs, or mix in a variety to fully illuminate your outdoor space.

• Path lights– are the most common landscape light. Use path lights to line a walkway, flowerbed or other hard-to-see areas in your yard for safety and outdoor ambiance.
• Spotlights and Floodlights – work well to highlight trees, shrubs and other visual interests in the garden.
• Deck lights– increase safety when walking on the deck or the deck stairs at night.
• Well lights– light flowerbeds and work well placed at the base of trees.
• Post cap lights– light up the top of your deck posts for added safety and decoration

3.Set Up the Lighting

If you wish to highlight a single item in your garden like a statue, gazing ball or fountain, you should consider using a few landscape lighting fixtures with lower intensity bulbs. A single bright light shining directly on the object will create harsh shadows.

Landscape lights that make soft spots of light are good for garden paths. Space the lights at equal distances along the path you want illuminated. To know more about lighting, talk to our experts at LET Design Lighting consultants India today