Eye-Catching Backyard Landscape Lighting Ideas
Whether you want to illuminate your property due to safety concerns or purely for aesthetic appeal, many homeowners use the warmer weather to consider different landscape lighting designs. If you want to improve the look of your front garden, backyard, driveway, walkways or side paths late at night, there are many unique ways to light up a space. And now that the extended spring and summer days and nights are here for everyone to enjoy, many families are looking for dramatic and eye-catching lighting techniques to enhance and augment the countless hours they will spend around the pool and barbecue areas after the sun sets.
To create a palpable ambiance whenever you are hosting a chic patio dinner party with friends and family members in attendance, families will spend time lighting up a few different spots using various methods. For example, a popular suggestion is to wrap long ropes of colored string lights around the perimeter of the property, or perhaps adding a few scented Moroccan-style candles along the fence posts. If you have floating steps that lead from one area of your backyard to another, such as a gazebo, a striking idea is to install temporary LED light bulbs throughout the area, placing them underneath each floating step to provide the spot with an ethereal glow.
If you want intimate lighting specially suited for a romantic dinner for two, the old adage that "less is more" definitely rings true. As such, try to situate lights in different places spaced slightly farther away, so that the illumination doesn't become showy, garish or distracting, given that this will eventually disrupt and ruin the mood. Tiki torches situated amongst the grass can supply a dreamy vibe, string lighting hung around the edges of your patio umbrellas.
Large stone backyard garden walls can look fantastic if they boast small cove-like openings, since you can add small tea lights to each aperture. For example, mason jars or plain glass vases stuffed with string lighting can look great up-close or from afar. To add a nice touch of color, lightly coat the exterior of the jars and vases with translucent glass paint and then place candles inside. Since mason jars are so versatile, you can even jerry-rig (in a safe way, of course!) a chandelier so that they are used to house each bulb!
If you are keen to involve your children in any homemade garden lighting design ideas, an easy task to do together involves punching small holes through the sides of old coffee cans. (For larger tin cans, such as paint cans, a responsible adult can use a hand drill to puncture holes through the walls of each can). After holes are formed, place a tea light or small candle in each coffee can, making sure you affix them with candle putty so that they don't come loose and slide around or fall over.
A combination of lights of different shapes, sizes and hues with garden-based foliage can make for a wholly bewitching atmosphere. If you have miniature trees planted around the perimeter of your backyard, up lighting them with baby blue colored bulbs will offer an airy yet delicate feel. Underlit garden benches also look stunning given the correct bulb angle and the right amount of light.
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Super ideas!!
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Wonderful pictures, I liked these ideas of lighting ones backyard. Thank you so much for sharing the pictures with all of us. Most of the times we ignore the improtance of lighting out the outdoors and simply concentrate on the indoors. Have a look at my blog. http://blog.californiafenceco.com/9-amazing-tips-dazzle-fence-lighting/ Hope you like it.
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