The warmer weather and longer days serve as reminders that you could use a new landscape design, with proper outdoor lighting, for your Mendham, NJ, home. These landscape lighting ideas will properly and wonderfully illuminate your property after the sunsets.
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Front Yard Lighting
Your landscape lighting experts have the lighting solutions to make your front yard dazzling and note-worthy after dark.
Driveway lighting: If your driveway entry is less than stellar, having your landscapers plan some masonry pillars at the front of the driveway can be an ideal way to create a place for lanterns that sit atop the pillars to invite your guests into your home. This type of lighting can illuminate the area for coming and going so that the safety of the entry is improved and easily seen after dark.
Another way that your landscapers can add lighting to the driveway could involve incorporating low-level lighting along the edges for increased visibility when navigating the driveway at nighttime. This can be nestled discreetly in the landscaping along the edges. Or perhaps it’s time for a complete refresh; if so, your landscapers can design a fresh surface of gorgeous, hand-selected pavers where the lighting is recessed along the driveway.
Walkway lighting: Is your current walkway purely functional—and not beautiful? Consider the construction of a standard 4-foot wide walkway made of durable and beautiful pavers, to create a seamless look for your outdoor space. When guests can walk side by side to your front door on a pretty surface that has a soft glow to add visibility, this effect can increase the safety for you and your guests as well as make the space so pretty after dark.
Refreshed fixtures: Having your landscaper replace the existing fixtures with more up-to-date selections that emit brighter lights can be what you need to transform your entryway.
Backyard Lighting
Your landscapers will have ideas on the perfect solutions for illuminating this area of your landscape, too.
Patio lighting: The patio can become the outdoor room you have always wanted with the right lighting. Your landscapers can install outdoor lighting around the perimeter of the patio for increased functionality and nighttime ambiance. If your patio has no covering, discuss the options for adding a covering to this space that can provide more options for additional lighting. Even outdoors, it’s possible to install lighting that operates on a dimmer if that’s preferable for your outdoor lighting options for your pergola or patio area.
Trees and landscape beds: For trees, bullet lights can be situated at different angles to highlight the shadows and texture of the bark at night while lighting placed in the tree branches can create dappled light that spills gently on the ground.
Landscape beds can be illuminated with lighting that casts a soft glow on the underside of the bushes and highlights the colorful flowers.
Fencing: When your landscapers add wash lights to the fencing that surrounds the backyard, the boundaries are clear even at night. This effect can make you feel more comfortable as your children play on the swing set and chase each other around the yard as dusk takes hold.
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