Everything You Need To Know About The Best Modern Landscape Lighting

With landscape lighting, you can strategically install fixtures to elevate your garden or yard's aesthetic appeal and functionality.

The right landscape lighting can be transformative to any outdoor space, being magical to gather around.

To learn how to pick the best landscape lighting, keep reading. We'll cover everything you need to know below.

What Are The Different Types Of Landscape Lighting?

Think of landscape lighting as a fixture that helps illuminate your garden and showcase the functionality of your outdoor space. With landscape lighting, there’s a range of you can choose from, such as:

Spotlights

Spotlights are a form of lighting in which a light is shined on a specific spot, creating a brazing focus. They’re used to illuminate plants, statues, walls, and patios, helping enhance visual interest in each part. Spotlights are a focused form of lighting that shines on artwork, architectural features, and decorative elements.

Pro Tip: Add a sleek touch to the walls or entrance of your home with Haylen. This LED wall light can be installed horizontally or vertically and provide a strong statement or subtle glow similar to a spotlight with its dimmable options and three different colours.

Up/down lights

These fixtures shine light from two directions, up and down. They’re regularly used as accent lights highlighting rocks, trees, plants, and walls.

Pro Tip: Dawn is a fixture that can be installed above a doorstep, highlighting where to stand and the ceiling or area around the door. This modern outdoor sconce has an IP65 weather-resistant rating and a black finish blending in with different types of architecture.

Path lighting

This is a form of landscape lighting that helps illuminate walkways, trails, and areas where visitors may walk. Path lighting typically has several fixtures installed to guide people in the right direction and help set the tone for the evening.

Pro Tip: Beam is a welcoming fixture that can be placed in pairs along a path or walkway. Made from rattan, it complements the natural elements outdoors and is solar-powered, meaning you can easily rearrange its position to maximize the outside landscape.

Outdoor post lights

Mounted to a pole, outdoor lights help provide illumination to walkways, parks, and driveways. They’re a fixture that combines aesthetic and functionality, coming in a range of modern and minimalist designs complimenting many different types of architecture.

Pro Tip: Meadow is a modern outdoor post light and available in three different sizes which can be inserted or fixed into the ground. Made from aluminum and with a black finish, Meadow complements any material from stone, wood or brick.

Solar lights

Solar fixtures are great landscape lights as they are easy to install and energy efficient. With no electricity required, they harness the power of the sun to charge their batteries, helping provide sufficient illumination to outdoor areas.

Pro Tip: If you’re looking for a sophisticated, aesthetically pleasing solar light, consider Chaz. This fixture is solar-powered, has a dimmable remote, and has a captivating cube-like shape, adding a modern touch to an outdoor area.

Another great solar landscape fixture is Skye, a circular portable outdoor lamp. Energy efficient, with a dimmable remote and a black stainless steel base, this fixture provides extra safety at the edges of pools and walkways.

Hardscape lighting

Hardscape lighting is used to highlight particular elements of your outdoor landscape. Sometimes, they can be a statement piece drawing attention to the fixture alone or add an inviting allure to walkways, walls, and patios on a dark evening.

Pro Tip: Luna Outdoor is a waterproof lamp that can double up as a statement fixture and a hardscape light, drawing attention to a feature wall. A minimalistic moon fixture, it invites comfort at night with its warm glow.

Gleam is also a fixture that can be classified as a hardscape. Its circular shape subtly emits a glow into a garden, patio, or driveway with three different colors and a dimmer option.

Valley is also a great type of hardscape fixture which doubles up as stunning artwork, holding a silhouette of a valley. Made from stainless steel and with a black finish, this fixture can complement most types of walls.

How far apart do you put landscape lights?

There’s no fixed rule when it comes to installing landscape lighting. To give you an idea, try to keep them at least six to eight feet apart on walkways and pathways to ensure consistent illumination. You can, however, adjust the spacing according to your preferences based on the brightness, color of light, and shadow.

How to choose outdoor landscape lighting?

To pick the right landscape lighting, consider the following:

• Areas to illuminate: Patios, entryways, paths, gardens, and plants.
• Fixture type: Think about the type of fixtures, be it spotlight, pathlight, hardscape, solar, up and down, and more.
• Warm tones (2700K to 3000K): Provides a cozy atmosphere
• Cool tones (4000k to 5000k): Gives a focus temperature complimenting modern designs
• Easy to clean fixtures: Fixtures that can be moved and cleaned easily to ensure the lighting still looks attractive.

Final thoughts

Overall, landscape lighting can hold a captivating ambiance outside of your home. The right lighting can highlight distinct features such as a statue, plant, walkway, doors, pool, etc.

When looking to buy landscape lighting, always pay attention to the areas you want to illuminate, fixture type, bulb temperature, and maintenance. Remember that some of the best landscape lighting works well when multiple fixtures are installed or positioned correctly.Always aim to position fixtures six to eight feet apart to ensure there’s enough consistent spacing of lighting.

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