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4 Lighting Design Techniques to Beautify Your Home’s Exteriors

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Show off your landscaping and architecture with perfect illumination after dark

It’s time to stop thinking of landscape lighting as only a practical way to illuminate your property after dark and start thinking of it as a design element to show off your home’s beautiful architecture, outdoor art, gardens, and landscaping features.

Compared to daytime, your property is a unique place at night — it looks, sounds, and feels completely different once the sun sets. Landscape lighting allows you the opportunity to bring drama, mystery, beauty, and ambiance to this new environment. Do you need some inspiration to get started? Keep reading to learn four outdoor lighting design techniques to add beauty to your Bergen County, NJ, home’s exteriors — plus the best Coastal Source lighting fixtures to match.

SEE ALSO: Brighten Up Your Bergen County Home With Incredible Landscape Lighting Design

 

Downlighting

Downlighting involves installing light fixtures up above — in trees, from pergolas or gazebos, and under the roof’s eaves — and casting the beams of light downward. It’s an elegant way to highlight garden beds, beautiful landscaping, paths, and patios. One stunning downlighting technique is to use hanging lights to create the illusion of moonlight on your yard or pathways. To achieve a moonlighting effect, mount lighting fixtures in high branches and focus the beams downward. The light will filter through the leaves and branches to create patterns on the ground — just like natural moonlight does.

Coastal Source tree lights and hanging lights are excellent choices for creating natural, gorgeous downlighting effects in your landscape.

Up-Lighting

Up-lighting involves installing light fixtures on the ground and casting the beams of light upward. It’s a beautiful technique for drawing the eye to specific objects like stunning trees, statues, flagpoles, or other unique features on your property. Up-lighting techniques like silhouetting and shadowing that create striking patterns from the contrast between light and darkness look especially dramatic and eye-catching after sunset.

Coastal Source bullet lights and well lights are excellent choices for creating bold, dramatic up-lighting effects in your landscape.

Path Lighting

Path lighting involves installing light fixtures on the ground along the borders of pathways, driveways, steps, patios, and pergolas. It’s a technique that’s functional as well as aesthetically pleasing. Not only does path lighting give shape and structure to your landscape layout, but it helps you, your family, and guests stay safe while walking the grounds at night.

Coastal Source match lights, path lights, step lights, and niche lights are excellent choices for creating subtle, functional lighting effects in your landscape.

Wall Washing

Wall washing involves installing lighting fixtures on the ground and aiming the light at a structure like the side of the house or a row of shrubs. Instead of aiming focused beams of light at specific objects, wall washing casts a soft, uniform glow over a larger area. The effect is light that washes or bathes over your home or foliage.

Coastal Source wash lights are excellent choices for creating subtle, ambient lighting effects in your landscape.

Electronic Concepts is a Coastal Source dealer and outdoor lighting design expert in Bergen County, NJ. Call us or fill out an online form to schedule a no-obligation consultation about your next outdoor lighting project. We look forward to working with you!

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