What is Landscape Lighting?
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Have you ever been driving around at night and seen a home with a beautiful lit up yard? This is landscape lighting. Landscape lights are essentially the finishing touches to a landscape design. Landscape lighting is an art and takes some engineering to make sure you get the desired effect when the sun goes down.
Landscape lighting is almost a status symbol. Think about it, have you ever seen an expensive hotel without beautiful lit up landscaping at night? For anyone that has done any landscaping it is easy to understand how much time and money is spent on making your yard and land look presentable and beautiful. With all this time and money being spent, wouldn’t you want to be able to see the fruits of your labors at night? We certainly hope that you do and landscape lighting will get you that desired result.
Before you go out and buy a bunch of landcape lighting fixtures, there are a few things that you need to do. First of all you need to decide on what type of effect that you want. For example, flood lights do not look as good on walkways, but they look excellent to show off large trees and even large plants. Once you have decided the types of effects you want in each area of your yard you will be much more prepared to find the right kind of fixtures.
Many people are worried that landscape lighting is expensive. This simply is not the case. In fact many landscape lights utilize solar panels and charge during the day so that they don’t have to use any of the electricity from your home to power on at night. The solar powered lights are definitely the most popular type of landscape light fixture as it pays for itself by how much you save on your electric bill. Some solar power lights cannot produce certain effects. Flood lights need a little more juice and must be plugged into electricity. These types of lights will not hurt your wallet too bad as they run on super low voltage and hardly effect your electric bill.
We have one more tip for you before you run to the store to buy landscape lighting fixtures. Try to buy fixtures that look like the vegetation. You want your lights to be very discreet so you are more focused on what’s lit up than the light fixture itself.
Please refer to our other pages to learn about specific light fixture types and prices.
