Warm up your home this winter with beautiful outdoor lighting features.
Even as temperatures start to fall, you may be wanting to spend time with friends and family outdoors. It’s important to make sure that your landscape is adequately lit. Functional outdoor lighting features add beauty, atmosphere, safety, and practical use to your entire landscape. Here are a few reasons it’s worth investing in quality outdoor lighting features.
Safety
Outdoor lighting makes your home more accessible and more safe for everyone. People appreciate having lit walkways that help them navigate safely at night. Zone lighting can also help illuminate the darker areas of your yard at night. It can also be used to light up key outdoor areas such as the patio, deck, garden, pool, or seating area. The more lights you have, the safer your landscape will be.
Security
A well-lit yard adds a layer of security to your home. People interpret a properly illuminated yard as a property that’s well cared for and maintained, which discourages trespassers and burglars. Motion detection lights can also be used to save energy when no one is around, activating only when someone enters the area.
Comfort
By lighting up your outdoor landscape, you are essentially extending the usable area of your yard at night. Furthermore, quality outdoor lighting features can add a pleasant and inviting ambiance to your whole home. Uplights that cast an even glow across your home are particularly attractive.
Highlight
One of the best ways to use outdoor lighting features is to showcase or highlight the areas of your landscape that you care deeply about. Installing uplights in areas of interest will grab attention to these areas and display them attractively. Many people choose to highlight a garden or important landscape feature. Low-voltage exterior lights also make for great accents around trees, shrubs and other landscape foliage.
Curb Appeal
A well-lit home is a well-cared for home and will impress everyone in the neighborhood. In contrast to a home that is drab and dark, an illuminated landscape is warm and inviting and draws people in. Plus, there are tons of outdoor lighting designs to fit your home’s particular mood and atmosphere.
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Thinking about your next landscaping project? Lehnhoff’s Landscaping offers professional and exceptional outdoor lighting, hardscaping, and landscaping year-round. We also offer dumpster rental, bulk material delivery, and drainage solutions. We serve Baltimore, Chevy Chase, Montgomery County, Clarksville, Howard County, Ellicott City, Kingsville, Bowie, Pasadena, Towson, and many other areas throughout Maryland.