Exterior lighting is an important part of your home and landscape design. Lighting for paths and entrances are crucial for safety. Lighting can be used to showcase trees, plants and your home in general. It looks enchanting and invites you to get outside and enjoy your outdoor living space at night.
Types of Outdoor Lighting
Flood Lights
Flood lights provide wide-spanning lighting, covering large areas and hidden nooks that may not be easy to illuminate. These lights can help improve safety and protect individuals and property from robbery and vandalism.
Landscape Lighting
Landscape lighting encompasses a wide-range of outdoor lighting fixtures and functions - such as globes, sconces, lanterns and spotlights are used to add security, improve utility for outdoor living spaces and improve a home's overall aesthetics. LED's offer an energy saving element to outdoor lighting.
Motion Sensor Lighting
Motion sensor lighting consist of small electronic pieces that detect infrared waves, that radiate when things move. They detect a certain amount of heat radiation, which is present in people, animals and cars, and thus turn on the lights on automatically. A homeowner can adjust the time the lights remain on after detection. The motion sensor function only works at night and during evening hours and is deactivated during the day via a photocell.
Outdoor lighting can be a necessity for a variety of outdoor spaces. While some types provide aesthetic enhancements, outdoor lighting as a whole is a solid precautionary method to improve safety and reduce theft and vandalism during evening hours.
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