Love Your Landscape – March 2019

Feeling safe and secure in and around your home is high on the priority list of most home owners. Fortunately, landscape lighting is effective in creating a safe and beautiful environment around your home.

A recent university study of incarcerated burglars confirmed that “a lack of hiding spots available on well-lit properties” would deter them from committing their crime. Today, technology and landscape lighting make it easier and more affordable than ever to illuminate the outside of your home, making it more secure and safe.

Technology now offers operating access from your cell phone or tablet to your landscape lighting. The versatility of options and ease offered in landscape lighting gives you the ability to have multiple lighting zones and remote control access from anywhere to your outdoor lighting.

Strategies for lighting your landscape for the purpose of security and safety include having a well-illuminated front entry and front door area and proper lighting of stairways, driveways and any dark areas near doors or accessible windows.

Common landscape lighting methods used today include,

up-lighting, washing, spotlighting, moonlighting, silhouetting, down-lighting, grazing and lighting in water.

Each of the above methods creates a unique effect in your landscape lighting to help enhance safety, security and beauty for a practically and beautifully-lit landscape.