Let Your Landscape Investment Shine This Year With Outdoor Lighting in the Birmingham and Rochester Hills, MI, Area
This might be the year to introduce new outdoor features and make updates to your Birmingham and Rochester Hills, MI, area landscape. From a paver patio to a retaining wall, quite a few landscape features could offer a significant refresh that would give you more use of your outdoor spaces. But there’s another element of landscape upgrades that also deserve attention—or else those new features will get “lost” once the sun goes down. You may also want to consider your options for outdoor lighting, to keep the attention on your landscape after dark:
Outdoor Steps and Stairways
Outdoor lighting added to your outside steps and stairways offers a multipurpose solution: It creates ambience when you are close up to the features and also when you are sitting back and relaxing and looking at them from afar. It can also, of course, help ensure the safety of your guests and family members as they navigate your landscape.
Fine Garden Areas
Illumination in your garden areas will enable people to enjoy your garden views day or night. With spotlight, silhouette, and shadowing techniques, you can focus on different areas of your garden and give your property a beautiful look. Small outdoor lights placed among your flowers and plants can let you admire your plantings even at night, while uplighting along your trees would create a whole new effect in your landscape.
Paver Patio
Your paver patio is likely a focal point of your property and an area that sees a lot of activity. Why not make this outdoor living space even more usable by adding outdoor lighting? You can add lights on the ground surrounding the patio or add elevated outdoor lighting on columns and retaining walls surrounding this space. If you use this area as an outdoor dining space, adding outdoor light fixtures will help you create an ideal entertaining spot.
Water Features
Water features deserve ample attention, and not just during the day. Outdoor lighting can be placed just so, to reflect off the water and create an inviting glow. The calming water sounds combined with the lights reflecting off the water feature would create a relaxing environment for all to enjoy.
Outdoor Kitchen
By adding task lighting to your outdoor kitchen, you can grill steaks and prepare wood-fired pizzas with ease in the evening. Another consideration is the lighting by the outdoor kitchen, where you will be enjoying your culinary creations. Will your gas-fired fire pit reflect enough light, or will you also need recessed lighting along the paver patio, or perhaps lights strung along the top of your pergola over your outdoor dining table? The best lighting would show off your impressive alfresco cooking area during cocktail parties and outdoor gatherings with your friends and extended family members.
Pool Patio
Pool parties and night swims can become regular activities if you have ample yet inviting outdoor lighting within your pool and around your pool deck. If you’d like lower positioned lighting, you can have individual outdoor light fixtures placed in the grass areas surrounding your pool.
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.
