Outdoor lighting can greatly enhance your gazebo and your entire backyard landscape. Garden light fixtures seem to add a special touch to anything they are placed on. If you have a patio or deck, you should consider using some of these amazing patio lighting ideas to add lights around your patio or deck. Lights are [...]
Accent Lighting: Add a New Dimension of Beauty to Your Home
Is your landscape lighting suffering from a lack of imagination? Do you just have a floodlight or two outside your home that suffices for lighting your home at night? Accent lighting is an essential part of any outdoor lighting design, so if this sounds like you, listen up. You yard doesn’t have to be boring! [...]
Creative Ways of Using Solar Lights
In the last few years, with advancements in solar power technology, solar lighting has become incredibly popular. The fact that the cost of this technology has come right down and the development of new manufacturing techniques have brought us to the point where solar lighting is now a commodity purchase, which has the added bonus [...]
Ideas for Lighting For Your Driveway
Your front walkway or the area near your front door aren’t the only areas along the front of your home that can benefit from some additional lighting to not only brighten up the area, but also to add interest as well due to the decorative lighting options that are available. There are many interesting driveway [...]
Landscape Lighting Design: Do It Yourself
Getting great landscape lighting design in your yard in the space of a weekend might seem like an impossible task to you. Many people resort to hiring professional contractors to make sure that they get things done right. However, there’s no need to think that you can’t achieve similar results yourself in a very limited [...]
Internationally Inspired Garden Lighting Plans
One really helpful tip for developing a great garden lighting plan is to look for inspiration internationally. The island nation of Japan in particular can help you come up with some amazing ideas if you look at how it have viewed garden lights over the years. You won’t regret it. Even five hundred years ago, [...]
Outdoor Accent Lights
If you really want to have a top notch outdoor garden light system, you can’t do it without the help of outdoor landscape lights. These are light fixtures that are made to emphasize a focal point, instead of providing strictly task lighting. In general, most accent light fixtures will have a slightly lower powered bulb [...]
Step-by-Step Outdoor Lighting Design
Great outdoor lighting design doesn’t have to be the just in the realm of anyone who can afford to hire expensive landscape architects. You can light your home and property beautifully and effectively with just some knowledge of outdoor landscape lighting principles and a simple plan that you can draw up yourself. Just make sure [...]
Outdoor Garden Lighting Techniques for Flowers, Trees, and Walls
The three basic things that almost everyone has in their garden are flowers, trees, and walls. When you’re designing outdoor garden lighting plans, each of these things is going to need a different type of light and lighting style. Buy using a lighting style that matches the plants or architectural structures in your garden, you [...]
How To Design Garden Path Lighting
Path lighting is one of the few essential tasks that you have to accomplish to properly light up your landscape. Garden path lighting not only increase your yard’s beauty, but they also improve safety by preventing trips and falls over unseen hazards that may lay along the most traveled routes around your house. To properly [...]
Caution! Outdoor Accent Lighting Could Wash Out Your Garden
Being able to correctly use outdoor accent lighting will make or break the overall garden light plans that you have for your yard. When used correctly, accent lighting will illuminate focal points in your yard with a soft low level light that will draw people’s eyes. But done incorrectly, accent lighting can turn into a [...]
Exterior Lighting Design: Do It Yourself
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
5 Creative Landscape Lighting Ideas
Planning out a landscape lighting design is like creating a painting. You could choose to go the paint-by-numbers route and install the same boring garden lights that everyone else in your neighborhood has. Or, you could choose to employ some creative landscape lighting ideas and paint your very own masterpiece that will be uniquely yours. [...]
Planning Outdoor Landscape Lighting
One of the necessary finishing touches to any well maintained property is the use of outdoor landscape lighting fixtures. Landscape lighting increases the visual appeal of your house and the functionality of much of your land and it brings your property value along for the ride as well. Designing outdoor garden lights that will take [...]
Designing Garden Light You Can Be Proud Of
There are many different potential ways to light up your garden and property at night. Garden light can be the paints that you use to color the dark canvas at night to any way of your choosing. However, if you’re not particurally artistic this can be an incredibly intimidating prospect. Luckily, there are several basic [...]
