Five Essential Outdoor Lighting Guidelines

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Outdoor Lighting

While it’s easy to recognize beautiful outdoor lighting when it’s in front of you, the truth is that good outdoor lighting doesn’t come without careful thought and planning. When it comes to lighting the exterior of your home or commercial property, you want to ensure you have a solid strategy in place.

 

5 Essential Outdoor Lighting Guidelines

In today’s post, we’re going to discuss five critical elements of any outdoor lighting strategy you need to consider. Without further ado… here we go!

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Security For Your Property

One of the key elements of outdoor lighting its ability to deter burglars and others who are bent on doing harm. These types of people will think twice about what they’re going to do if there’s a greater chance of being seen.

Besides adding motion sensors to outdoor floodlights, one of the other things we recommend doing is putting your lights on a timer. This can help create the illusion that someone is home at all times to operate the switches. Another option is to install smart lighting that allows you to control your lights from a distance.

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Helps You Navigate The Darkness

Another reason to install outdoor lighting is to ensure you have enough light to navigate your property at night. Be sure to place your lights in areas that cut down on shadows and help illuminate tripping hazards. This includes lighting up walkways, entrances, and your stairways.

When lighting your stairway, you can use LED strip lighting, under tread lights, post lights, or even individual lights that are mounted to your railing.

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Highlighting Architecture & Landscape

Function is not the only reason to install exterior lighting. Beauty is just as important. Whether it’s an outdoor pond, interesting tree or shrub, or a statue of some sort, you can use different types of outdoor lighting to highlight these areas of interest.

We also recommend learning about the different ways that lighting can cast shadows. Play around with uplighting, downlighting, backlighting, and frontlighting to get your desired effect.

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Outdoor Living

One of the best things about living in Florida is our ability to enjoy outdoor living nearly every day of the year. Ensuring your outdoor living space is well lit, will allow you to enjoy the outdoors any time of the day or night.

If you have the space for it, we recommend an outdoor chandelier as it adds a sense of elegance to any outdoor space. You can even install a dimmer to control your lighting and create the perfect atmosphere for a romantic outdoor dinner.

Ceiling fans are also a great addition to keep you cool on especially warm and muggy summer days.

Upfront & Energy Costs

At Franklin Lighting, we understand lighting on a budget. The truth is, you don’t need an incredible amount of money to create a beautiful outdoor lighting strategy. Our lighting experts can help you make the most out of your budget.

Additionally, we recommend installing LED light fixtures for greater energy savings and longevity.

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