Improve Your Landscape with Good Lighting
Whether your house is on the market or you plan to stay there for years to come, a beautiful exterior is just as important as the home’s interior.
Landscape design projects can be an exciting prospect for creative types. Dreaming up a new backyard filled with water features and picturesque shrubbery is enough to delight even those who only moderately appreciate design. That being said, these projects can also be incredibly taxing when it comes to labor, time, and money. If you’re looking for the best way to spruce up your property over the weekend, a new reflection pond or cobblestone path would be beautiful, but it’ll take a lot to accomplish these feats.
One of the simplest ways to get the biggest bang for your buck when it comes to design improvement is by using a simple installation: lighting features!
Lighting features rarely require heavy construction and can often pair well with the current design of your property, while adding a refreshing finish.
Here are five places you can add lighting features to improve the aesthetic quality of your home landscaping.
Where You Should Improve Lighting
Existing Shrubbery
All the time you spend pruning and caring for your shrubs (or all the money you spend on landscape services) is a bit of a waste if it’s only ever seen during the day.
One of the best ways to feature your beautiful landscaping during your evening gatherings is by adding lights low to the ground to add a little glow to your shrubbery. This brightens your late-night parties with a splash of color by illuminating your garden and shrubs, even in the dark.
Walkways and Pavers
Adding lighting features to your walkways and pavers is a good decision for a number of reasons. On one hand, it is an added safety measure: it’s never a bad idea to aid your guest’s vision when they’re walking at night. It can also be a beautiful way to create soft lines and highlight curving patterns in your landscape design.
Perimeters
Marking off the perimeters of your property with lighting is another way to illuminate your landscape, adding safety and beauty.
Adding lighting to the borders of your property creates a warm glow to surround your guests and family. Not only is it aesthetically beautiful, but it also helps to define the lines of your property.
Water Features
The water features in your landscape design are already gorgeous and they can only be improved by adding some light!
Light and water interact beautifully. As light reflects off of water, it creates interesting shapes and a glittering effect. Placing lights around the borders of water features like ponds and pools can also help to illuminate these features and make them stand out in the dark (this is an added safety bonus as well!)
Add Some Height
Any design expert will tell you that one of the keys to creating beautiful and interesting spaces is to consider levels.
Adding taller lamps and lighting features enables you to create some height and bring the eye up from the ground toward the sky and trees on your property. This can also have the effect of making any property seem larger.
If you’re looking for a simple way to add some glamour to your property, lighting features are some of the easiest and most cost-effective choices, but you shouldn’t do this on your own.
Hiring the experienced professionals at The Parke Company for landscape services is the first step to ensuring you receive the kind of lawn services necessary to preserve the assets on your property.
From lawn mowing to tree removal, the landscaping professionals at The Parke Company have the experience and the skills to meet the unique needs of your property and bring your design dreams to life.
Give us a call (615-350-6033) or contact us online today to see how design experts and arborists at The Parke Company difference can work for you.