# Outdoor Lighting Design Mirrors Interior Lighting Design

- Link: https://mycoastalwindows.com/outdoor-lighting-design-mirrors-interior-lighting-design/
- Published: 2015-06-02T19:13:57-04:00
- Author: Jeremy Wood

##### By Lucy Dearborn, 󠀁[Lucia Lighting & Design](https://www.lucialighting.com/)󠁿

Landscape lighting helps you expand your home to the outdoors. As we invest in our
landscape, either by a total renovation or just a few new plants and trees, we can
light up those favorite features for round the clock enjoyment!

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A great place to start, especially when you are considering landscape lighting, 
is first to decide how you plan to use the spaces; furthermore, think about which
features of your home most deserve to be illuminated. Is it the pathway to your 
[front door](https://mycoastalwindows.com/doors/)? Or would you fancy looking out
your kitchen window where you’ll be entertaining at night? Consider uplighting trees
to highlight interesting branches and silhouettes.

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Design a plan with a lighting specialist. A professional can help you formulate 
a plan that evolves over time, allowing you to add beauty, safety and security progressively.

###### _General Lighting:_ Wall lights and post lights for general illumination around entries, driveway & walkways.

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_Accent Lighting:_ Lighting hardscapes, focal points and architectural elements 
are a great way to extend your home and your day.

 * Up lighting trees, rocks, sculptures
 * Grazing surfaces (brick, stone)
 * Bed lighting to highlight plants and add a layer of glow
 * For both safety and aesthetic appeal, light up brick and cobblestone walkways.
   Additionally, doing so helps to accentuate a winding path or highlight an interesting
   surface.

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_Task Lighting:_ If you’d like to turn on your lights from your car for safety and
security or if you’d like to change light levels from your chaise, you can control
your outdoor living environments much like your interior. Scenes can be created 
for every mood from reading to romance.

 * Walkway/pathway lighting – safely light areas of travel from space to space
 * Not too symmetrical, they do not have to be equally spaced
 * Lighting steps and stairways – side posts or step lighting (light every step!)

_Security:_ Landscape lighting allows you to move safely around your outdoor spaces
after the sun goes down. Landscape lighting is as pretty in the winter as it is 
functional in the summer. Driving up to a well-lit home makes you feel good and 
lights the way to the inside safely.

 * Motion sensors and photocell control are self-controlled and simplify security
   lighting.

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###### Why LED?

Use low voltage LED Lighting for ease of installation by your qualified contractor.
It uses up to 90% less energy than conventional lighting. 50,000 hour lamps life
offers a low maintenance solution so your landscape can stay lit for safety, security
and beauty for a lifetime.

Ask your lighting specialist about energy efficient retrofits. She can retrofit 
LED bulbs in your current working landscape fixtures. You will use up to 90% less
energy and almost never change a bulb.

 * Up to 90% energy savings
 * Rarely, if ever changing the lightbulbs
 * Cool burning lamp source that accepts lenses to change color from warm to cool
 * Pink lenses for white & pink trees
 * Blue lenses for green trees

LAST BUT NOT LEAST: A little light goes a long way at night ~ soft layers, low wattage.

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