Landscape Lighting guide
Landscape Lighting in North NJ: How to Light Your Home Every Night of the Year
Holiday lighting gets the attention, but landscape lighting is what your home looks like the other ten months. Well placed low voltage lighting makes walkways safer, shows off trees and stonework, and gives your home a warm, finished look every single night. Here is how to get it right.
5 best practices for landscape lighting
Light the walkway first
Path lighting is the foundation. Low fixtures along walks and steps make the approach to your home safe and welcoming, and they set the scale for everything else in the design.
Uplight your best trees and stonework
A mature tree or a stone facade lit from below is the most dramatic effect in landscape lighting. Two or three well aimed uplights can change the entire feel of a property at night.
Choose low voltage LED fixtures
Low voltage LED systems are safe, efficient, and rated for outdoor use in every season. Professional grade fixtures hold their finish and their aim through New Jersey winters, where budget kits fail in a year or two.
Put everything on timers or photocells
Your lighting should come on at dusk and shut off on your schedule without you thinking about it. Timers and photocells make the system automatic from the first night.
Design it to work with your holiday display
Landscape lighting handles the ground layer all year, and in December the roofline, wreaths, and tree wraps go up over it. Designing both together gives your home depth in every season.
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