With spring in full bloom and the anticipation of warm summer nights ahead, a well-planned outdoor lighting scheme is more important than ever. Lighting not only improves the safety of your home for visitors or guests at night, it also serves to highlight certain features of your home while transforming outdoor areas into comforting and livable spaces long after sunset. Here are 5 ways to get you started on completing your outdoor lighting design:Whether you use sconces, a pendant or...

Don’t feel overwhelmed—there are a lot of types of lights and a lot of spaces to place them. One of the best things that you can do to scope out your own project it to grab a good, high-powered flashlight with a dimming optic and get out into your yard at night. Then, play with the light. See what looks cool, or what might not work as well. Here’s a look at the various landscape lighting effects you might want...

Landscape lighting can be the thing that takes your backyard from basic to bling, but undertaking a lighting plan for your yard can be an intimidating project. But have no fear, as this need not be the case. Welcome to Landscape Lighting 101, where we’ll walk you through a basic overview of the various types of lighting you’ll find in a landscape and exactly what each of them is supposed to do. We’ll look at: What to light in your yard...