10 Lighting Ideas for Your Outdoor Space

If you have outdoor living areas, don’t let them go to waste just because the sun goes down! Here are ten easy lighting ideas for your outdoor space that will enhance your time outside in the evening and increase the usable living space of your home.

1. Showcase What You Love

Your home and landscaping are beautiful during the day, but don’t miss the chance to highlight them in a whole new way at night. Strategically placed uplights at the base of a tree, a fountain, or an interesting architectural feature can illuminate textures and patterns in ways you might not expect.

2. Keep Everyone Safe and Secure

You can make your property safer by adding pathway lighting, motion sensing lights on your garage, soft lighting by your front door (just not at eye level!), along your driveway, around the outer perimeter of your property, near your pool, or anywhere else that family and visitors will be moving around at night. 

3. Add Task Lighting to Your Outdoor Kitchen 

Everyone loves a backyard BBQ. Adding overhead lighting to shine down on your grill and eating area and some lighting under your counters will ensure that you can comfortably prepare food that your guests will love. They will also appreciate being able to see what they’re eating!

4. Move the Party Outside

You can make memories under the stars when you add festive lights to your backyard trees, pergola, deck, fire pit, or pool area. Outdoor lanterns, string lights, fairy lights in mason jars, and floating pool lights are some creative ways to amp up the ambiance.

5. Create a Focal Point

If you have a covered outdoor seating or dining area, choosing a lovely hanging pendant light, chandelier, or even a group of paper lanterns tastefully arranged together can create a warm, welcoming environment while also adding a beautiful focal point.

6. Increase Your Energy Efficiency

Have you made the switch to light-emitting diode (LED) lighting yet? If not, it’s worth looking into. LED lighting can increase your energy efficiency, which is good for both your wallet and the environment. 

7. Moonlighting is Magical

Want to add some whimsy and romance to your yard? Placing lighting fixtures in higher elevations (often up in trees) to shine down gently the way natural moonlight does is known as moonlighting, and it can provide a touch of magic to your property.

8. Haven Lighting Makes Any Celebration More Fun

Haven Lighting is a cloud-based lighting system that offers users a range of 20 colors and 8 different temperature options of white for a fully customizable lighting display that changes at the touch of a button. You’ll never have to struggle with putting up Christmas lights again!

9. Incorporate Smart Technology

Smart technology isn’t just for your appliances, heating and air conditioning, and indoor lighting. When you incorporate smart technology into your outdoor lighting system, you don’t have to worry about setting timers or forgetting to turn on the lights when you’re away from home. You can do it from your phone.

10. Get a Professional Landscape Lighting Design

If you want to increase the beauty, functionality, and value of your home, consider hiring professional lighting experts to create a lighting design unique to your style and your property. Houston Lightscapes offers free consultations where they go over your options with you and give you an idea of how they can transform your home. We also install moonlighting, Haven lighting, and can even retrofit your old system to LED lighting. Call (713) 461-3600 to schedule today!