
Benefits of Landscape Lighting

Your outdoor lights allow you to safely navigate around your
property at night and enhance your home’s security. Thoughtful outdoor lighting
design can also provide a warm and inviting ambience for your outdoor living
spaces, increase energy efficiency and improve your nighttime curb appeal. Here
are the benefits of landscape lighting:
Improve
your home and yard’s aesthetics.
Landscape lighting installations are becoming more popular
among homeowners. This is because thoughtfully designed outdoor task and accent
lighting can be very attractive as well as functional. Edmonton
Landscapers can include outdoor lighting in your overall landscape design
plan. You can use outdoor lighting to light up walkways, add cozy accent
lighting to your outdoor patio and to accent your water feature, garden or
other landscaping features. Find inspiration with these landscape
lighting ideas.
Make
your outdoor living space more functional.
If you’ve invested in a deck, patio, pergola or other
outdoor living space, outdoor lighting will make these spaces more appealing
even after the sun goes down. Having lighting installed around your home to
light up these social areas will draw you outside, so you can the most of your
investment. Improve the space further by installing heaters or a fireplace. Read
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articles about landscapers and enhancing your outdoor living space.
Increase
your home security.
While having good outdoor lighting can enhance aesthetics
and your personal enjoyment of your outdoor living spaces, it is also a great
security feature for your home. Install motion sensor lights on your main
driveway and around the house so the lights will turn on and beam on any
potential intruders or strangers lurking on your property. In addition to these
flood lights, having accent lighting in the yard will give the appearance that
people are there, further deterring intruders from entering your property.
Incorporate
energy efficient lighting.
Outdoor lights that are on a motion sensor, as mentioned
above, will only turn on when someone is in that area of the yard. This is a
better option for both security and energy efficiency compared to just leaving
the outdoor lights on all night long.
Another trend in landscape lighting is low voltage lighting.
This cost-effective lighting doesn’t use as much electricity and its low output
provides a soft glow, which is perfect for that nighttime ambience. Another
eco-friendly option is solar powered lighting. These solar lights have small
panels that absorb the sun’s energy during the day to power the lights at
night. These solar lights tend to be dimmer compared to low voltage lighting
and will fade as the night goes on.
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