Landscape lighting not only brightens up your yard, but also emphasizes its unique features, and creates added security and safety. With so many options available, it can be hard to decide which lighting aligns with your vision. These basics will help you to shed the right kind of light on your property.

How Do You Decide What to Light?

Before choosing your landscape lighting, you’ll want to narrow your options by making a list of the features around your home and yard that you’d like to highlight most.

If you have a particularly beautiful tree in your yard or a bonus feature like a fountain, you’ll want to highlight them simply because they’re aesthetically pleasing for you and your guests. Similarly, elements in your yard that might look drab during the day, like a fence, can transform into more impressive sights at night with the right lighting.

If you have dark pathways that become hazardous at night, adding the proper lighting will enable you and your guests to navigate them without fear of injury.

What Are the Types of Landscape Lighting?

A spotlight delivers a narrow beam of light that you can conveniently adjust to highlight the facade of your home or other landscape features. Floodlights are like spotlights, except they cast a wider beam, making them ideal for safety lighting on pathways or driveways.

An in-ground light, as the name suggests, is installed into the ground; they’re usually round and hidden, thus allowing you to focus on the illumination rather than the fixture. The grand effect they produce is ideal for larger features in your yard, like a tree or wall.

Post lights are often used to line the pathways in your yard and have an ambient, calming effect. Long posts are ideal for those stretches of your yard that are otherwise lost to the dark, while shorter ones are perfect for forgotten corners.

What Different Effects Might You Try?

To discover the look you’re going for, step into your yard at night with a flashlight, and picture these different effects.

Silhouetting, for example, is a great way to emphasize dramatic shapes in your yard. Install lighting behind plants, and they’ll cast impressive shadows against the wall of your home or a fence. Spotlights are ideal for this effect.

Uplighting is achieved by installing light into the hardscape, or ground, of your yard; it shines upward on larger structures to highlight details and create drama.

Grazing is ideal for hardscapes; install lighting adjacent to a surface and shine it up or down to graze the surface and highlight its textures. 

Illuminate your landscape with the help of Abulous Lighting, in Roswell, GA. They provide quality, affordable landscape lighting for your home and custom designs, installation, and maintenance. Customer satisfaction is their priority, so they offer a lifetime warranty on fixtures, LED bulbs, and installation. Light up your life by calling (770) 521-2805. Browse examples of their work online.