Outdoor Lighting Could Be Just What Your Landscape Design Is Missing in the Troy, MI Area
While plans for improving your Troy, MI landscape may have focused on how you will get the most out of it during the day, an outdoor lighting plan would enhance and extend how you use it at night. Here are some ways to incorporate outdoor lighting in your landscape design plans to elevate the nighttime look of your property:
Walkway Lighting
Walkway lighting offers illumination for navigation purposes, but it also looks really nice, too. Outdoor lights along one side of your walkway would provide a warm, inviting route to your front door while lighting along a backyard walkway would direct guests to where the fun is happening—on your paver patio.
Water Feature Illumination
For a waterfall or water fountain in your backyard, adding outdoor lighting to this area can highlight its beauty. Your landscape company can add an uplight aspect to produce a lovely glow on your flowing water feature. Outdoor lights that put the focus on your water features can add to the calming effect of a water feature while ensuring that anyone can enjoy its beauty at any hour of the day.
Backyard Patio Lights
Adding outdoor lighting to your backyard patio greatly increases the functionality of an outdoor living space. With strategic outdoor lighting installed here, your paver patio can become the main gathering spot for wonderful alfresco dinners or after-dinner drinks. You may also find your family spends more quality time together on the patio when you expand the length of time you can be outdoors with the help of patio lighting.
Retaining Wall Lighting
If you want a subtle lighting feature added to your property, include outdoor lights on or around your retaining wall. If you have a retaining wall in the front of your property along the roadway or at the property line where your land meets that of the neighbors, including outdoor light fixtures on this masonry structure can clearly show where your property ends.
Pergola Brightness
When you want to add a brightness factor to your property’s pergola, add outdoor lighting to this structure. You can have outdoor lighting added to the beams of the pergola or the interior ceiling of the structure for light that will shine down on the area underneath the pergola and provide ample lighting for family game night or a summer party with friends. When you have outdoor lights added to your pergola, it can be a focal point in your yard and bring the look of the landscape design together.
Driveway Entrance Lighting
You don’t want friends and visitors to pass by your driveway at night. Add outdoor lighting to the driveway entrance to provide a helpful guide to your home’s address and also be a welcoming beacon to invite people in. Outdoor lighting has the effect of setting the tone for an inviting home.
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.
