While you wait for the winter weather to turn warmer into spring, planning an outdoor lighting addition to your New Lenox and Mokena, IL landscape can help to fill the time. Enjoy your outdoor living spaces more and for longer in the day when the spaces have soft illumination.
Landscape Lighting Benefits
Landscape lighting offers so many benefits to any landscape design. The right lighting plan lets you stay outside longer in the day, enjoying your outdoor living spaces. It allows your children to stay outside playing on the long summer nights since they can see their play areas and the swimming pool.
Illuminating your outdoor spaces increases the safety with which you can move around the yard, bringing light to the walkway as you take out the trash. The most enticing benefit to landscape lighting might be how lovely it makes your yard and living spaces when the sunsets.
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Outdoor Living Space Lighting
Outdoor living today has taken on new meaning with more time spent at home than ever before. An outdoor lighting addition can transform your landscape into a resort-worthy look and feel.
Patio: Patio lighting can illuminate the space you use most. With surface lighting on the flooring of the patio, walking around in this space can be more comfortable. A landscaper can add discreet lights to the adjacent landscape beds for a soft glow that projects over the whole patio.
When they replace the existing sconces with modern, brighter lighting, you can have light that projects on the patio surface and above the sconce to the surface of your house.
Outdoor Fire Area: Your outdoor fireplace or fire pit gives off an ambient, unique glow but adding outdoor lighting to this space can improve the functionality in big way. The fire itself is amazing but not enough light to read by or even see your guests clearly. While a fire is a draw to spending time outside, illuminating this space can let you enjoy a quiet conversation with your friends at the end of the day and finish a bit of work on your laptop.
A landscaper can add lighting above the mantle for an outdoor TV so you can watch your favorite shows by the outdoor fire. Lighting that illuminates the flooring space and projects into the nearby landscape beds can be hidden so that all you see is surrounding beauty.
Outdoor Kitchen: An outdoor kitchen can be one of the best outdoor living features of your landscape but cooking isn’t confined only to daylight hours. Having your landscaper add an outdoor lighting plan to the outdoor kitchen means that you can whip up a full meal or snack late at night.
They will install both ambient and task lighting so you don’t have to worry about visibility in the darkened night. You will be able to see clearly to cut vegetables and ensure the meat is done. Then, when you are ready to put all the utensils and cooking pots in the dishwasher, the mess is cleaned up and you can relax and visit with friends and family.
Outdoor lighting might be the one addition that makes the most difference in your landscape and outdoor living spaces.
