8 Ways Exterior Landscape Lighting Improves Your Home

You’ve just settled in your new home, and your outdoor features are all in place. The lawns, flowerbeds, and the walkaways are looking glamorous.

Your yard is nothing but beautiful. But as the sun sets, the landscape beauty is lost in the darkness -- at least, until the next sunrise.

Exterior landscape lighting will highlight your home’s breath-taking outdoor features and make your home look even more attractive at night. But there is more landscape lighting can do to your home.

Read on to find out ways in which exterior lighting can improve your home and why you should invest in it.

1. Increases Your Home Value

Your home value increases with any addition you make on it.

Landscape lighting has many benefits that include adding beauty, enhancing security and safety to your home. These benefits automatically add value to your home, giving you a huge advantage if choose to sell your home.

Many potential home buyers see outdoor lighting as an essential quality added to a home. Since landscape lighting highlights architectural details of your home at night, many potential buyers can see the magnificence of your home and come with a better offer in case it’s on sale.

Home buyers are interested in buying a complete house that will leave them with minimal improvements to make. Landscape lighting makes your home look complete thus increasing its value and demand.

To ensure you maintain your home value:

• Improve existing lighting: Clean the light fixtures and lenses, replace old and damaged lighting, and ensure all lighting is working properly.
• Keep your shrub and trees properly pruned.
• Add more features such as an outdoor kitchen and a patio.

2. Makes Your Home More Attractive 

The backyard and front lighting fixtures accentuate the best aspects of your home’s surrounding landscape. A well-planned landscape lighting design brings beauty to your home at night.

The lighting illuminates your dark home to make it more inviting to the residents, visitors, and passers-by. You can enhance the beauty of your home through:

• Applying silhouette to dramatize interesting shaped objects in the compound
• Using up light to highlight landscaping and architectural features
• Using a warm light to showcase the house and landscape
• Using step lights to illuminate stairway and walkaways
• Using spotlight to illuminate walls and surfaces

3. Enhances Safety

When it’s dark, family and guests can easily trip and fall down in your backyard. Lighting illuminates the stairs and the garden at night to enhance visibility. The lighting also prevents neighbors from tripping and falling as they pass near your property.

If you’re hosting an outdoor party at night, your landscape lighting will ensure the cracked sidewalks and uneven paths are all visible. And that will prevent accidents.

Since you are responsible for the accidents that may occur in your compound, a victim may sue you for damages. Therefore, invest in outdoor lighting to keep everyone safe as you enjoy your homestead at night.

Here are some improvements you can make to enhance safety at night in your home.

• Use light posts to illuminate walkways, paths, and driveways
• Install lights near the stairs to direct your guests
• Install lighting in high traffic areas like your outdoor washrooms, patio, swimming pools
• Illuminate dangerous places like an incomplete construction site, trenches, or waterlogged areas

4. Improves Security

One of the major reasons for outdoor lighting is to enhance security at night to prevent crimes in your home. At least one home in Canada is broken into every 90 seconds, meaning outdoor lighting is necessary for keeping your home secure.

With lighting in place, even the neighbors can spot an intruder near your fence or compound and alert you. Also, your guests or visitors feel safer when there is light in your compound.

Landscape lighting is a sign of a secure home. So burglars and trespassers may shy away from coming nearby.

Here is how lighting can improve your home security;

• The automated lighting timers turn on outdoor light at the onset of darkness. Timers will turn on the light even when you are away, so potential thieves won’t know you're not home.
• The floodlights brighten the dark areas where criminals can hide before they break into your house.
• The motion sensor lights switch on whenever someone gets closer.
• The illuminated perimeter makes it easier to see any movement near the fence. 

5. Enhances Functionality 

Landscape lighting makes your compound usable both during daytime and at night. If it gets hot during the summer nights, you can enjoy your patio and swimming pool under the cool air of the night.

You can also share conversation and spend time with family and friends outdoor even after the sunset. The compound can be the kid’s playground at daytime but host the adult’s party at night.

6. Expands Your Living Space 

With landscape lights in place, you can create an outdoor kitchen, deck, and patio and utilize them even in the night. When you extend the patio and deck, you increase the usability of your property and also extend the living space.

You can even set up a temporary office on your patio for days when you don't feel like getting cooped up inside the house. 

7. Distinguishes Your Property from Others

With landscape lighting, some features of your home stand out at night, such that it’s easier to differentiate your home from the neighboring houses.  

Use the features to direct your first-time visitors to your home at night. For example, you can mention the flickering red lights at your gate to help visitors identify your home when they arrive at night.

It’s helpful especially if you live in a neighborhood where homes are similar and difficult to differentiate.  The lights in the stairs and pathways are also directing people to different parts of the house.

8. Enhances Entertainment

Landscape lighting makes all night-time entertainments more enjoyable. You can use the spectrum of colors from the LED light to enhance your outdoor entertainment experience.

You can use special lighting with a warm ambient glow to provide warmth. The warmth ensures you’ll have a good time with friends in your compound during cold nights.

Need Exterior Landscape Lighting for Your Home?

Are you ready to install exterior landscape lighting in your home? There are various types of lighting fixtures for different tasks, from illuminating your yard and sidewalks to improving security and deterring burglars.

Contact us today for professional installation of your exterior lighting. With our 25 years’ experience in landscaping design and happy clients to show for it, you can trust us to do the job.