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Lighting is One of the Most Important Design Aspects

Proper landscape lighting has many practical benefits that can heighten your safety and deter crime. That in itself makes it worth the investment but light can also truly make your home shine. Landscape and exterior lighting is one of the most important aspects of the design of a property. If you want your home to stand out amongst your neighbors then landscape lighting is a must.

Set the mood.

Light can do a lot of things besides just illuminate your home’s exterior. It can set a mood. Humans have become conditioned to view places that have brighter lighting as more inviting and more safe. This is important for any get together as it will set your guests at ease which helps to pass the time much more smoothly. Do you want to highlight a certain part of your property? If so, landscape lighting is the best way to do so as it will draw your guest’s eyes to it.

Lighting can also be used to show off the landscape, which will look much different in the dark. New shadows or silhouettes will be created where none existed before. Features of a yard like a tree or a shrub will look much different depending on the strength of the light as well as the angle that the light hits the object at. New colors may even emerge. A color may look very different during the day under natural light as opposed to artificial light at night much less what it would look like at dusk or at dawn. Speaking of color the color of the lighting can even be changed.

Proper lighting can change everything.

Landscape lighting can help you to see your property much differently. Exterior lighting can be installed to illuminate nearly anything and from any angle. This can include up lighting or down lighting, path lighting and much more. Your property will never look the same again. The best part is that when it comes to landscape lighting there really is no wrong answer when it comes to how to illuminate your property.

The best part is that anyone can install a lighting system but to do it properly a homeowner should work with an experienced installer like Resort Lighting Inc. We have the experience and the know-how to take your property from dark to work of art and we can work with nearly any budget.

 

Resources:

http://www.creativeoutdoorlighting.com/basic-design-elements-of-landscape-lighting/
http://www.soleracorp.com/design-elements/

 

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