Types of Landscape Lighting to Brighten Up Your Yard
Although landscape lighting has many different options, they all provide brightness to your yard, plants, or walkway at night. The lighting brightens up your home and overall, just provides a very pleasant look. Today, we will talk about different landscape lighting fixtures and their differences.
Spotlights
Make your home the star of the show. Spotlights can shine anywhere you want. Weather you want them on the front of your house to compliment your landscaping or in the backyard. These spotlights may be one of the brighter lighting options, but they are a great option to accent your garden, front yard, or big trees.
Flood Lights
Next, when flood lights come to mind, some think of the ones that light up a football field on a Friday night, but the ones on your landscape look a little different. Flood lights in your yard would be connected to the top of your home and would spread out usually a bright white light onto your backyard or landscape. They can be called flood lights because the light “floods” out from a few areas on the light fixture. This type of light probably provides the most light to your backyard. With a bigger backyard and a bigger area to cover, flood lights may be exactly what you need to brighten up your yard.
Step lights
Step lights are a very popular light fixture for a backyard. Although they may not light up the landscape as much, they still can brighten up a yard and the deck area. These lights can be put into the side of the stairs on both sides. Usually with a deck and a set of stairs outside, they can be very beneficial. Being out on a summer night or in the dead of winter, it is important to be able to see when you are walking up the stairs. Step lights are a quiet, smaller light and can be just enough to compliment your outdoor pieces.
Up/down lights
Up/down lights resemble its name perfectly. Up down lights light up the area above and below them. These lights are typically used on decks and front/back porches. Up/down lights allow for lighting in the area all around them, but probably aren’t enough to light up and entire landscape. Very visually pleasing, they may be exactly what you need to add some light do your deck or porch.
Garden lights
A cute way to brighten up your garden, flowers, or in the area around your landscape. Garden lights are usually smaller fixtures that are put into the ground almost like a stick. Garden lights can also line a pathway or walkway in your front or backyard.
In conclusion, there is a variety of landscape lighting fixtures to brighten up your backyard and it all depends on your needs and wants as a homeowner. Lighting is a great addition to your landscape and can really increase the look of your yard. For any help with landscape lighting and for professional installation, contact Clay Creek landscaping at 410-599-0159.