An undervalued aspect to home outdoor environment is the lighting used to enhance features. Whether its the landscape, hardscape features or pathways, lighting can really help those beautiful features ‘pop out’ at night.
In fact with a good lightscape design your nighttime environment can become entirely different taking on its own personality from the daytime version.
Todays lights are more energy efficient and can vary from the standard incandescent with the traditional warm yellowish glow to the more current LED style which produce a whiter light. While the lights take over at night, another consideration is the light fixture during the day. Most of today’s lighting companies provide a variety of fixture types to meet the specific light needs (pathway down lighting, flood lighting or pencil focus lighting) and in a variety of different styles and materials to compliment the daytime personality of your outdoor environment
Lightscape Maintenance
While these fixtures are fairly maintenance free they do require some attention. Vegetation can grow over the light path, bulbs and LEDs can break/wear, wiring connections can corrode and light lenses get dirty. In fact in the Houston market, its not uncommon to see those pesky fire ants build a mound around and in light fixtures!
Routine review can ensure fixtures provide the ambiance and safety they were designed to provide.