How to Choose Beautiful Outdoor Lighting For Your Bay Area Home
A Variety of Options for Design, Function, and Safety
Outdoor lighting is essential to safety and security at night, but it can also add a luxurious element to your home's exterior. Outdoor lighting can deter criminals, increase visibility for family members, and create a beautiful, welcoming atmosphere for visitors. With the wide variety of lighting solutions available today, choosing which lighting options are suitable for your home can be challenging.
Continue reading to learn more about outdoor lighting considerations for your Bay Area home.
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Plan a Design
Before making any purchases, you should first decide how to use outdoor lighting solutions around your home. For example, will you use the lighting to illuminate features in your yard, or will you use it for function, such as lighting walkways, decks, patios, stairs, or a pool area? Light is critical to functional areas because it helps with safety.
Next, consider where you may place lights for security reasons. For example, could a garage, shed, driveway, or doorway use extra illumination? These types of lights can be part of a home security system and connected for monitoring as well.
Finally, approach your home from an artistic perspective and assess areas for aesthetic enhancements with lighting. For instance, do you have a landscape design that disappears at night or any unique trees or bushes that you can brilliantly illuminate? After considering these options, you'll better understand what type of lighting you want to buy.
Fixtures
There are many choices for lighting fixtures to enhance outdoor areas. Some of them are so beautiful that they look fantastic during the daylight. You can choose from in-ground lighting options, which we recommend for lighting walkways, patios, or decks. Or, you can select spotlights, flood lights, or post lights for more aesthetic enhancements. Some ideas include illuminating trees, bushes, fountains, or benches. Using uplighting or downlighting techniques, you could even use spotlights or floodlights to illuminate the exterior of your home.
Many homeowners use post lights to illuminate walkways. With so many designs available, post lights can easily add visual interest to your sidewalks.
Integration
If you already have a smart home or security solutions, you can easily integrate outdoor lighting into your schema. This integration will make setting timers or receiving alerts for light activations (in the event of a motion-activated light) much more accessible to oversee and manage.
Would you like assistance designing your outdoor lighting or choosing which fixtures would look best in your Bay Area yard? If so, please get in touch with us for service. We can also help integrate your outdoor lighting solutions with a smart home control such as Savant or Control4. Contact us today!
