When clients first call about outdoor lighting for their St. Louis area home, they often have one type of lighting in mind.
Perhaps you’re thinking about how outdoor lighting will improve nighttime curb appeal, or that it might make your yard safer to navigate. At Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of St. Louis, we know that the most impressive outdoor lighting designs don’t rely solely on one type of fixture. We understand that a safety-influenced outdoor lighting design doesn’t have to include bulky flood lights.
When it comes to beautiful and functional professional outdoor lighting, a combination of fixtures and techniques will provide maximum impact – on all fronts. Our outdoor lighting systems are installed to balance form and function by strategically layering different types of lighting.
Below are three key layers that work harmoniously for any home and property in the St. Louis area.
1. Exterior Home Lighting Highlights the Architecture of Your Home
The first layer of a great outdoor lighting design begins with the home’s facade. Exterior home lighting defines the structure and emphasizes the architectural elements that make your home unique. Carefully positioned outdoor lighting fixtures will beautifully highlight brick textures, stone accents, columns and entryways, dormers and rooflines, and architectural trim.
Façade lighting can add an elegant glow to your home’s exterior, revealing texture and dimension. What’s more, this type of exterior home lighting promotes security without the use of harsh, utilitarian flood lights.
2. Pathway Lighting for Safe, Welcoming Walkways
Another essential outdoor lighting layer is pathway lighting. Walkways, driveways, and even garden paths are much easier to navigate with properly-spaced pathway lighting. These lights, like exterior home lighting, offer added security in addition to safety for families and visitors, by revealing walkways that would otherwise be shrouded in darkness. Our clients love their path lights for front walkways, lush garden paths, driveways, and steps or entry approaches.
Rather than flooding these areas with light, path lights provide downlighting that is directed onto the walking surface, revealing potential trip or fall hazards and offering a gentle rhythm of beautiful illumination.
3. Outdoor Uplights for Trees, Upgrade Curb Appeal with Dimension
Perhaps an oft-forgotten aspect of curb appeal lighting is uplighting for trees. This third layer, often closest to the street, even if trees are sparse, truly transforms properties at night. The impact of one lighting fixture installed at the base of a tree and directed upwards, adds an air of drama by creating vertical interest. Tree uplighting is perfect for mature shade trees, ornamental trees, evergreens – really any type of tree.
Uplighting draws the eye upward to create height and depth in your landscaping design, much of which is closer to the ground. This lighting can reveal branch patterns any time of the year, which go unnoticed even during the day. Outdoor uplighting for trees can add a sense of scale to your property to help balance composition for a truly dynamic and cohesive outdoor lighting design.
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Outdoor Lighting Perspectives of St. Louis can take your home or business’ exterior to the next level with high-quality outdoor lighting, professionally installed and made to last. Get in touch with us at (636) 202-0369 to schedule your consultation today!
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