Kickstart Your Spring Landscape Lighting

Are you ready to kickstart your spring landscape lighting project?

Spring is here! It’s an inspiring time of year bursting with possibilities. Soon enough, we’ll be enjoying longer days and later sunsets. Spring is the perfect time to reacquaint yourself with nature and your surroundings. Is your outdoor space ready for relaxing with family and friends?

Here’s a few ways to get you started.

Create Your Plan to Kickstart your Spring Landscape Lighting Project

Before you integrate or upgrade your landscape lighting, it’s important to create a plan of how you want to use your space. Some common goals for landscape lighting are to increase safety, enhance your outdoor atmosphere, and to improve curb appeal. Important areas to focus on include walkways, driveways, steps, and patios. Once you’ve covered the essentials, you can expand beyond functional lighting. Illuminating trees, gardens, water features, and architectural elements can elevate your design from basic to extraordinary.

Accentuate Your Favorite Features

Draw attention to your property’s most impressive features with accent lighting. Accent lights are perfect for brightening up your space and enhancing the mood of your outdoor living. Water features, retaining walls, pergolas, patios, and gazebos can be showcased with the use of spotlights or floodlights. LED accent lights are a perfect addition for your patio, pool area, or entryway. Choose modern or industrial fixtures to create a vibrant, energetic mood, or use rustic, traditional fixtures for a relaxing, serene atmosphere. Take your design one step further by alternating colors and hues to add layers to achieve your desired outcome.  

Always Define A Clear Path

Welcome your guests by offering safe, secure navigation around your home, pool, and gardens. Pathway lights can beautify and increase the safety of walking areas while providing visual appeal and dimension. Staircase and pathway lighting draws in your guests and encourages them to explore and to stroll through your beautiful property. Additionally, the added illumination will prevent visitors from walking on plants, flowers, sprinkler heads, and will prevent nasty tripping hazards. Ideally, the most effective pathway lighting will be within a foot of the path and about 14 inches high. 

It’s All About Direction

Different light positions yield different results. Up-lighting fixtures are typically mounted below or at ground level, shining the light upward. Up-lighting creates bold shadows that are good for highlighting special features such as a tree line, garden wall, columns, statues, and fountains. Downlighting involves placing fixtures high up while concealing the light source. You can experiment with the height placement, keep in mind that the higher the light, the wider the space you will illuminate. Low growing flower beds, outdoor seating, and large outdoor living areas like patios, decks, and gazebos work well with downlighting. Cross-lighting is a variation of up-lighting using two or more luminaries to light a focal point from multiple angles. Cross lighting is often used for trees, statues, and gardens. Moonlighting is a specific use of downlighting that mimics that soft glow of moonlight. With precise placement and skill, moonlighting casts subtle yet dynamic shadows that appear to dance upon the ground.

Spruce Up Your Garden

Enjoy the fresh spring air in your garden, even after sunset! No matter what shape or size your garden is, adding some outdoor lighting will make it come to life at night. Create a gentle illumination by discreetly tucking away lights throughout your garden greenery.  Admire artistic shadows and dancing flickering flames when you integrate garden lanterns and torch lights into your garden landscape. Shine from above with the addition of string lights that bring both character and a sense of coziness. With so many lighting options, it’s easy to create energy, movement, and depth around your home.

Work Smart, Not Hard

Landscape lighting technology has come a long way! Smart technology allows you to customize motion sensors, automated lighting, dimming controls, maintenance checks, and more! With a swipe of your smartphone, you can access your outdoor lighting from the next room or while on vacation.

Safe Installation

Expert outdoor lighting appears exquisite and effortless; however, landscape lighting involves complex wiring and elaborate design. A professional lighting team can execute a custom lighting design, minimize safety hazards, and maintain your system after installation. This can save you time and money on repairs and replacements. 

If you’re ready to kickstart your spring landscape lighting, click here to speak with a Mobile Illumination team member. Our experienced technicians will work with you to create a custom design. We are ready to assist you today!

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