Make a Great First Impression with Landscape Lighting
The front of your house welcomes you home every night and invites your guests in as they arrive. These seven outdoor lighting ideas will bring cheer to your exterior, especially during the long nights of winter. Inspiration pictures from LUX Landscape Lighting customers will help you imagine how your home will be transformed by outdoor lighting.
- Highlight chimneys for architectural interest
- Soft illumination to calm the mind
- Show your entire home with lighting from gable to foundation
- Make safe walkways
- Make a statement with your front door
- Illuminate corner-to-corner for best effect
- Create textures with wall-washing
Outdoor Lighting Ideas:
Highlight Chimneys
Chimneys are a decorative and distinctive part of your home’s architecture. When a chimney features on your home’s front, it’s a natural point of interest for outdoor lighting ideas. This customer’s chimney is a beautiful stone that shows its texture when uplit. Get inspired with more pictures in our article, “Landscape Lighting Ideas for Your Roofline.”
Outdoor Lighting Ideas:
Soft Illumination
The soft, overall illumination on this customer’s stucco home is gentle and relaxing. Also, notice how the ornamental trees contribute to the overall effect. When drama isn’t your goal, we have plenty of outdoor lighting ideas to soften your mood.
Outdoor Lighting Ideas:
Lighting from Gable to Foundation
A multi-story home truly looks best at night when the lighting showcases the entire height of the house. This two-story outdoor lighting idea shows the home’s interesting gables and roofline. We’ve noticed that a home looks awkward and truncated when only the bottom floor is lit up.
Outdoor Lighting Ideas:
Make Safe Walkways
Guests and delivery drivers who may be unfamiliar with your home’s layout use the front door. Uneven surfaces or changes in elevation (like steps) can be dangerous to navigate in the dark. Help those making their way to your home’s entrance navigate all walkways safely by installing attractive landscape lighting. This outdoor lighting idea shows a LUX customer’s home that is full of natural beauty and organic elements. The lighting prevents any danger of the landscape design from becoming an unseen tripping hazard. For more on safety and security lighting, check out this post.
Outdoor Lighting Ideas:
Make a Statement with Your Front Door
Standing at your front door, guests get their true first impression of your home. Brighten up the space and show off your seasonal wreaths and decorations with year-round outdoor lighting. Ideas include not just carriage lights, but planters, pillars, side lights, brickwork and more– any part of your front door and entry way that you love and are distinctive to your architecture. We’ve illuminated many front doors. Check out a few: “Front Door Lighting that Pops.”
Outdoor Lighting Ideas:
Illuminate Corner-to-Corner
Similarly to lighting the entire height of your house, it’s a good outdoor lighting idea to show the extent of your home’s footprint, as well. Leaving the edges of your house in the dark makes the landscape lighting look unfinished. With this customer, we were able to pinpoint all the corners of the distinctive facade.
Outdoor Lighting Ideas:
Wall-Wash Textures
Textured surfaces like stone or brick are perfect for the uplighting technique of wall-washing. We place fixtures close to the wall, to “wash” it in light that creates dramatic shadows. It’s a way to see your home in an entirely different manner from the daytime. This customer has both stone and brick, so it’s a particularly perfect home for wall-washing (we also paid special attention to lighting up the focal point front door!). See more with our video on wall-wash techniques.
Get further front-of-house inspiration with our Entryway Lighting Ideas. Winter is an ideal time to install landscape lighting (especially before any holiday gatherings you have planned!). Reach out to us to start a conversation about transforming your home.
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