7 Outdoor Lighting Ideas for a Backyard with a Pool in the Troy and Birmingham, MI, Areas
As you consider adding a pool to your Troy and Birmingham, MI, area landscape, there’s another consideration to make: how this outdoor living area will be used and appear at night. Here are seven outdoor lighting ideas to consider:
Walkway Lighting
If you want to use your pool at night, it’s a good idea to light the way to get there with warm, inviting lights. You can have recessed lighting added along your paver walkway to create a beautiful glow leading out to your pool patio.
Paver Patio Lights
Adding lights to your pool patio will provide ample light for nighttime swims. This type of outdoor lighting can be ideal for evening swims with family or when you’re entertaining friends with summer swim parties at night. You can use low level lighting for a relaxing atmosphere or create a brighter environment with ample outdoor lighting surrounding the paver patio and pool.
Recessed Lighting
If you want your backyard area lit in various spots surrounding your pool, the landscape contractor can add ground level light fixtures. The outdoor lights can be placed around the pool area to provide ample light for evening swims. This type of lighting can provide 360-degree lighting effects to ensure all areas of the pool patio are well lit.
Step Lighting
If you have stairs headed out back to your pool patio, add an inviting glow by having lighting added to each step. This will help create an eye-catching visual as friends and family members head out to your pool area. When you have stairway lighting added to your property, this visual brings the entire look of the landscape together and would make your property a welcoming vision at night.
Garden Lights
Outdoor lights added to your garden areas will allow you and others to enjoy these natural areas at night. You may have gardens leading out to your backyard pool or have these beautiful blooming areas surrounding the water feature. The landscape company can add outdoor lights throughout your garden areas where people can enjoy the view as they swim laps in the pool. With outdoor lights added to these mulched areas, the lights are set off where people won’t trip on them but where you’ll still benefit from the illuminating glow.
Pergola Illumination
A pool area pergola also looks nice lit up at night. You can have twinkle lights added to the beams of this shade structure for subtle lighting and also have light fixtures added to the area surrounding the structure. When you add outdoor lighting to your pool pergola, you’ll also find more use for it, such as during alfresco dining at your patio table at night and board games with the family, even when it’s dark outside.
Retaining Wall Light Fixtures
Outdoor lighting can also be added to retaining walls that surround your pool patio. These outdoor lights can be added directly into the wall or perched on top of the structure for a brighter effect. You can even have lamp post lighting added to both sides of the retaining wall to provide optimal light for the surrounding area as well as the location by the wall.
About the Author
When Russell Sheridan founded Legacy Landscape in 2013, he committed to completing every project to perfection and exceeding customer expectations. We continue that mission today, taking pride in designing and building luxurious landscapes where our customers can create special moments with loved ones.
