Landscape Lighting System Upgrades

5 Ways to Enhance Your Existing Outdoor Lighting

Landscape lighting system upgrades are an economical way to make your previous investment even better, taking advantage of new products and technologies. The LUX Landscape Lighting pros suggest thinking about these five upgrades:

1. Replacing light fixtures
2. Add fixtures
3. Change the light intensity
4. Add new effects, like moonlighting
5. Light your outdoor living spaces

Keep reading for more details and pictures from projects we’ve completed for our Cincinnati area customers.

Landscape Lighting System Upgrades: Replacing Fixtures

Replacing or upgrading light fixtures can add new shine to your landscape lighting system. Existing fixtures may be in poor repair, or you may want to take advantage of new finishes and shapes that match your home’s architecture.

It’s important to buy fixtures from the same manufacturer as the rest of your system, because light temperatures and intensity vary between brands. It’s awkward for some lights to “stick out like a sore thumb” with a much bluer or yellower light than the others.

Landscape Lighting System Upgrades: Add Fixtures

Illuminating more of your home and property is an easy way to add some WOW. We recommend lighting the second or third story of your house, including the roofline. It’s very pleasing to the eye when you can completely see from left to right and top to bottom.

Looking for a way to showcase your home’s elegance? Lighting chimneys shows your home at its full height, which looks very impressive at night.

Adding a zone of lights for a favorite landscaping area also brings new life to your system. This customer’s side yard features some beautiful trees.

Landscape Lighting System Upgrades: Change Intensity

Perhaps your lights are all the same brightness, and you find that some areas are too dim, while others are uncomfortably bright. Maybe lights are shining into your home, or you’re concerned about dark corners. Changing the intensity of the light brightness for different purposes certainly will help you enjoy your lighting more. Here you can see pathways are brighter for safety, while trees are softly illuminated.

Again, the walkways and home facade are brighter than the surrounding vegetation.

Landscape Lighting System Upgrades: Add Moonlighting

Moonlighting is a natural, dramatic effect where we install light fixtures in tall trees and shine them down. It mimics the full moon, with lush shadowing and gentle light. It creates a magical, soothing atmosphere.

Landscape Lighting System Upgrades: Outdoor Living Spaces

Especially during the summer, nighttime is the best time to enjoy your outdoor living spaces, but only if they aren’t in the dark. Pleasant lighting around your patio, pool, deck, gazebo or outdoor living room sets the mood for entertaining or relaxing out of doors.

And here’s an example of lighting an outdoor kitchen, which requires a higher intensity than gathering spaces.

Hardscape lighting in pillars or walls create a pleasant glow, and the fixtures are discreet.

LUX Landscape Lighting has helped hundreds of Cincinnati homeowners enhance their properties after dark. Contact us to talk about custom landscape lighting system upgrades for your property. And check out our Landscape Lighting Resources for more ideas, photos and videos.