Saturday, March 5, 2011

What are the Lighting Ideas for Landscape

You have many ideas and options available, when you want to illuminate your landscape at night.

Highlight trees, fountains, hardscapes, statuary, and flowerbeds and more by using lighting. There are two dimensions to illuminate landscape, such as enhance the landscaping and bring out a lot of dramatic effects in the environment of the outdoor.


You may find two types of landscape lighting designs, one of them is down lighting or moonlighting which illuminates the surroundings. Specially this can be used for safety reasons. The next thing is lighting, by which a particular element is emphasized. You can highlight some parts of architecture in your home or garden by lighting. Installing the lighting should be in such a way that it shows your taste. It is not a difficult thing to choose the landscape lights for a beautiful landscape design according to your taste.


The best idea is placing the light fixtures strategically in order to show unique elements of garden. Install lighting for some architectural elements like fountains, sundial and birdhouse in garden or landscape. Use the technique in lighting by placing lights behind shrubs, flower beds and tress to give dramatic lighting effect. Use the submerged recessed lighting, if you have a small fountain or any water feature in your landscape garden, it will enhance the landscaping. You can also use coloured lighting to create something special for your landscape. Install decorative lamp around the garden which give the ambiance to the garden.


These are the lighting ideas which are useful to enhance the landscaping and it also use for entertaining purpose.

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