7 Types Of Houston Outdoor Lighting Fixtures
Outdoor landscape lighting can create a beautiful and warm oasis of light that will transform the look of your home. These 7 landscape light fixtures placed in strategic locations will help brighten your walkways, light up attractive features in your garden, and illuminate your yard and other outdoor areas, making it safer and more interesting.
1. Spotlights
These types of light fixtures are used when you need a concentrated beam of light to point in one direction only. This is a general term that includes different ways of using this type of lighting. For example, when pointed upwards towards a wall it becomes an ‘uplight’ that creates a type of wall-grazing effect.
Spotlights come in a range of different brightness and the amount of area they are able to cover. They are most often used to highlight walls, patios, plants, or anything else you wish to point it at.
2. Flood Lights
Floor lights are the most common type of outdoor lighting fixture that can be used to illuminate large outdoor areas. Basically they are a type of high-brightness spotlight with a wider range of cover. Floodlights are most commonly used to light up outside areas like patios from above and are also ideal for illuminating a driveway.
3. Up Down Lights
These types of spotlights have a wide range of uses, and from a design standpoint, they are some of the best types of outdoor lighting to use in the garden or yard. While downlights can be used to light up pathways and steps, uplights are perfect for bringing features like statues to life, creating patterns on walls, and generally beautifying your outdoor space. They work great against house walls or between hedges, making your garden safer and more interesting.
4. Step Lights
As the name implies, step lights are designed to light up any steps in the garden. They can be mounted on side walls or directly on the vertical, front face of the steps. They are ideal for lighting up deck steps and will avoid the risk of tripping, slipping, stumbling, or falling down steps in the dark.
5. Garden Lights
Garden lights are more subtle and a great way to show off beautiful and unique plants in your garden. Shining downwards and slightly outwards they form beautiful mushrooms of light that direct the eye to the plants instead of looking directly into a bulb.
6. Bollard Lights
These lights are mounted on top of posts without any shield or cover. These are one of the only types of outdoor lights that can shine in all directions.
7. String Lights
String lights provide a more subtle illumination and are ideal for stringing along edges of your landscape or through trees to create a picturesque scene.
An Exciting Way To Transform Your Landscape Gardening
These 7 types of outdoor landscape lighting fixtures will help to beautify the appearance of your home by transforming it from a squatting shape in darkness to a beautiful, warm, and welcoming haven.
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