A thoughtful outdoor lighting plan for your Mendham and Harding Township, NJ, backyard can bring features that blend together in the daytime to the forefront in the dark evening. Here’s how to accentuate your nighttime backyard with amazing landscape lighting ideas.
Benefits of Landscape Lighting
Professional landscape lighting can improve your darkened backyard and bring to the light some of the features you love most about your yard. The right lighting illuminates dark corners and removes the uncertainty you may feel when going outside into a dark landscape.
Lighting improves the safety of your backyard since each segment of the yard is planned out for ideal illumination. It can extend the amount of time you spend in your yard because you don’t have to go inside after the sun sets. Instead, you can turn on the lights to your desired level and remain there for as long as you like.
Ultimately, the benefits of landscape lighting can let you enjoy your yard for longer in the day and at any time of the day.
Backyard Outdoor Lighting
When you work with landscape professionals to choose lighting for your backyard, you can illuminate most anything you wish.
Patio: Adding lighting to the patio might seem obvious but many patios today have lackluster or inadequate lighting. Skilled landscapers can replace old sconces with upgraded, new lighting that shines up toward the eaves and down to the floor, too. When you choose to add lighting to the surrounding landscape beds, you may not see the fixtures but the soft glow will be there.
Walkways: When you head out to take the trash to the can in the dark, all uneasiness will be gone once the walkways are illuminated. Landscape professionals can secure light fixtures in the landscape beds and add more spotlights to the corners of the house to bring plenty of lighting for you to see so that you can walk around safely. Having ample light on the walkway surfaces can also allow children to play outdoors well into the evening since they can freely run around and have fun.
Trees: Did you know that when your landscapers add spotlights to the trunks of the trees, the distance from the tree can cast shadows that appear completely different from those lights that are closer? When they vary the spotlight distance and placement on the ground, the illumination of the bark texture and the size of the trunk can change dramatically. Illuminating the trees in the backyard can bring out parts of the trees such as the way the leaves appear oversized or flutter in the breeze that you don’t notice in the daylight.
Landscape beds: Adding lighting to the edges of the landscape beds can make all the plants and shrubs within look quite appealing. You can choose to illuminate specific shrubs that you love like those with the big, round blooms in a pretty color.
Fencing: Having your landscapers place soft wash lights along the base of your fence can let you see clearly where the boundaries of the yard lay, as another way landscape lighting can increase the security you feel in your outdoor space.