One of the hardest parts of exterior lighting design is actually coming up with ideas and planning out the placement of the lights. There are so many different styles and types of lighting that it can all seem a bit overwhelming at first. Visits to botanical gardens and your friends and neighbors can be good [...]
Unique Decorative Garden Lighting Ideas
Decorative garden lighting is a quick, easy way to snazzy up your property ahead of a get together or just for fun. Aside from the common decorative lights we all see around Christmas or the tiki torches that pop out every summer, try to find some new and unique decorative light fixtures to use in [...]
Debugging Your Exterior House Lighting
If you’ve had your exterior house lighting system up for a while, you know there’s one unfortunate side effect to it, all of the bugs. Whether you’ve installed outdoor solar lighting or a low voltage system, you’ll end up with all kinds of moths, mosquitoes, and other things that make most people’s skin crawl buzzing [...]
Eco-Friendly Outdoor Fluorescent Lighting
If you’re looking for a cheap, easy way to make your home greener, more energy efficient, and more eye-catching, look no further than outdoor fluorescent lighting. If you already have existing garden lighting installed, switching over to outdoor fluorescent lights is a breeze. If you don’t have them already installed, by opting for fluorescent lights [...]
The Beauty of Outdoor Track Lighting
If you have an area outside your home that needs both ambient light, but also needs some spotlighting, look no further than a light fixture that has been popular for use in kitchens for years, track lighting. That’s right, track lighting has been used inside many houses for years to provide light in kitchens and [...]
Exterior Recessed Lighting: Pros and Cons of Exterior Recessed Lights
If you want to create a subtle, beautiful accent to any area around your home, look no further than installing exterior recessed lighting. This type of lighting is a great, eco-friendly way to set a mood that simply cannot be matched by using normal halogen outdoor flood lights or other light fixtures. There are several [...]
8 Landscape Lighting Tips
Without the proper research and preparation, designing outdoor landscape lighting can be a pretty tedious affair. However, with just a little extra time preparing and looking at some landscape lighting tips, you can come up with the perfect landscape lighting for your property with a minimal amount of time spent and frustration. Here’s eight different [...]
Attractive Outdoor Step Lighting
Outdoor step lighting serves one main purpose in your home, to keep you and anyone else who happens to be using your steps safe from trips and falls during the night. But just because the lights serve this mundane purpose doesn’t mean that they have to be equally boring. Depending on what look you want [...]
3 Reasons You Need LED Landscape Lighting
The advent of LEDs is one of the biggest advancements to hit landscape lighting since the Thomas Edison first invented the incandescent light bulb. If you haven’t already started to use LED landscape lighting around your property, you should definitely consider incorporating them when you make your next purchase of garden lights. LED landscape lights [...]
Four of The Best Outdoor Deck Lights
One of the easiest areas of your landscape to add great lighting to is your deck. Installing outdoor deck lighting is snap because the areas will all be in the same general area, making wiring easier if you plan on installing a low voltage lighting system. Decks are also usually situated in a way that [...]
4 Places to Put Outdoor Pole Lights
There was a time when the only outdoor pole lights that were available were those that were placed as streetlights by your local town or city. Luckily for us, these days outdoor pole lights are available in a wide variety of different shapes, sizes and styles to be used by the modern landscape designer. Use [...]
Give Your Garden Class with Copper Landscape Lighting
If you really want to set your yard apart from your neighbors and give it a level of unsurpassed class, you can’t go wrong with copper landscape lighting. In addition to just looking good, copper has a great deal of advantages that light fixtures made form other materials simply don’t have. They may be expensive, [...]
Unique Landscape Lighting Your Neighbors Won’t Have
When you’re designing the lighting plans for your property, its easy to fall into the me-too trap. Because of the availability of products at your local hardware store, you end up with the same tiered lights running up your driveway in the same places as your neighbors do. Instead of having your lights set your [...]
Improve Your Property Value with Exterior Home Lighting
Even if you’re not planning on selling your house anytime soon, you’ve surely taken notice that since the recession has hit, home prices are down, way down in some areas of the country. If you are lucky enough to have some extra money laying around, now would be a great time to pick up with [...]
Easy Landscape Lighting Installation
Once you have sketched out your plan for where you want to put your outdoor lights, landscape lighting installation is actually much easier than your think. If you have chosen to go with solar lights, installation will be a snap, especially if you don’t have much shade in your yard. But even if you’ve decided [...]
What You Need to Know About a Landscape Lighting Transformer
There are many advantages to installing low voltage outdoor lighting in your yard over installing solar lights. You will have access to a greater range of light fixtures because they don’t have to contain a solar panel. You will also be able to place these fixtures wherever you want because you won’t have to worry [...]
Using Landscape Accent Lighting Effectively
There’s no major secret behind landscape accent lighting. It’s using the lights in your garden to accent the trees, shrubs, and other plants and structures at night. But this is easier said than done. Installing the lights you will need to put in a soft touch, because as the name implies, the lights should accent [...]
LED Garden Lighting: Light Up Your Property the Easy Way
One of the biggest improvements in light bulbs in recent years has been the advent of LED lighting. LED lights are extremely energy efficient but cast a huge amount of light for the small amount of power that they use. On top of this, they last for several years without burning out. There are a [...]
