4 Stunning Styles in Permanent Outdoor Lighting & Landscape Lighting
Looking forward to 2027, we’re excited to bring new outdoor lighting trends and techniques to our clients. These four are the biggest trends on our radar:
- Permanent Outdoor Lighting Beyond Christmas
- Landscape Lighting for the Second Story
- Colored Landscape Lighting on Plants
- Creating Art with Landscape Lighting
Get inspired with pictures of some of our latest outdoor lighting installations!
2027 Trend: Permanent Outdoor Lighting Beyond Christmas
Permanent Christmas lighting has begun to pop up around the Cincinnati area. This color-changing roofline lighting integrates into soffiting around a home’s eaves. While permanent lighting is incredible for the holidays, it’s also beautiful year-round. Above, we’ve chosen a warm, white light and classic light pattern.
LUX Landscape Lighting partners with Gemstone Lights for their high quality, beautiful products. Below, you can see one of the thousands of color options Gemstone offers. This deep blue would be perfect for a snowy night.
Show your Bengals pride with orange and white lights. All NFL team colors are pre-programmed into the Gemstone App. The app also includes presets for many holidays, sports teams and more.
2027 Trend: Landscape Lighting for the Second Story
Landscape lighting has long been used to illuminate front doors, walkways and landscaping. In recent installations, we’ve been taking lighting to the next level: showing off second stories, third stories, chimneys and rooflines. Clients enjoy showing off their whole home after dark, like the architecturally interesting home above.
This dark home definitely benefits from lighting the second story. Otherwise, the home would be lost in the shadows. Now, it’s welcoming and warm.
While the above ranch home doesn’t have a second story, it features a dramatic, tall roofline. If we didn’t light the eaves, the home would look strangely cut off after sunset. With this outdoor lighting trend, the home’s beauty shines through the night.
2027 Trend: Colored Landscape Lighting on Plants
Advances in color-changing LED landscape lighting allow us to feature plants in their best light. Evergreen trees look truly stunning saturated with green-colored uplighting.
And this ornamental tree looks particularly striking bathed in yellowish-orange lighting. We often think about color-changing LED landscape lighting as dramatic and showy, but the newest outdoor lighting trend is to enhance natural elements. It creates a glamorous and enchanting effect.
For one final example, this line of trees shows off their red foliage. Red lighting is also beautiful on a Japanese maple. During the autumn, a color-changing fixture can be adjusted to boost any tree with beautiful fall color.
2027 Trend: Creating Art with Landscape Lighting
Many of our favorite outdoor features are lost in obscurity at night. With landscape lighting, we can spotlight these attractions. A bubbling fountain in the dark is something of a mystery, but it’s a beautiful focal point when illuminated.
Landscape lighting can paint portraits, like the above seating vignette. It’s lovely to look out your windows at night and see a beautiful picture instead of a “black mirror.” We installed moonlighting in the trees to create a natural, shadowy effect on the bench and ground.
Following this artistic outdoor lighting trend, these blue pots come alive at night. The effect even shocked our LUX Landscape Lighting professional, because the pots are not that visible during the day. It goes to show, you never know precisely what will be your favorite aspect of outdoor lighting.
Are you interested in exploring outdoor lighting trends for your home and property? Contact us at LUX for personalized lighting inspiration and get a quote today.