How to Light the Outside of Your Home
Proper exterior lighting is crucial for enhancing the safety, functionality, and aesthetic appeal of your home. Whether you’re illuminating your driveway, a house sign, or a garden path, the right lighting can make a significant difference to your home.
In this guide, we’ll explore various methods to light the outside of your home and help you choose the right lights to make your home brighter, more secure and infinitely more attractive.
Solar Powered Outdoor Wall Light
Solar powered lights are a popular choice for a cost effective and efficient lighting solution, and our new Solar Powered Outdoor Wall Light is an excellent option for illuminating your home. Here’s why:
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This light is powered by solar energy, making it eco-friendly and cost-effective. It’s equipped with high-efficiency LEDs that provide bright and consistent illumination.
Benefits
Easy to install with no wiring required, it automatically turns on at dusk and off at dawn all year round. It’s weather-resistant, ensuring durability and longevity.
Usage
Ideal for providing downward lighting on your homes facade, as well as being an excellent solution to light up a house sign, enhancing curb appeal, and improving visibility around your home.
Installation
All you need is a flat surface to drill in the provided screws and fit the light onto its chosen position. Just ensure it is well positioned to receive at least 6 hours of daylight per day for the best results.
Garden Path Lighting
Garden path lighting is one of the most important lighting solutions to provide to your home. Adding lights to your garden path not only beautifies your garden but also ensures safe navigation through to your front door in the dark. Here are some options:
Types
Popular choices include solar path lights, LED stake lights, and low-voltage landscape lights. Benefits: Path lights create a welcoming atmosphere to your front door while highlighting garden features. They also add an aesthetic homely glow to your front or back door.
Usage
Add along the edges of paths, ensure the light is evenly spaced and positioned to illuminate the walkway. This help make your paths safer, particularly in the winter months, while adding an enchanting appearance to your garden.
Installation
Space the lights evenly along the path to ensure a balanced distribution of light, illuminating the entire pathway. If you choose low level solar lights, be sure their solar panel isn’t obstructed by an overhanging bush or tree. Lights can either be staked in the ground, or screwed on to posts or a fence running alongside the path.
Security Lighting on Sensors
Security lighting is recommended to improve the security of your home, and is an essential part of deterring any would-be intruders. From keeping outside entrances light to adding security lights to your garage, here’s what you need to know:
Consider motion sensor lights, dusk-to-dawn lights, and floodlights. Benefits: Adding exterior lighting makes your home less likely to have a break-in, keeping your home and your most valuable possessions secure.
Ensure your lights are well positioned to cover key areas such as driveways, garages, entrances and dark areas near the house. Be sure that the sensors are properly angled to detect movement in key areas, such as in front of a garage or around cars.
Installation varies depending on the type of lights you’ve chosen, but common examples are wall lights with sensors, which are installed with screws to a flat surface.
Aesthetic Enhancements
At The Bespoke Sign House we’re always big on adding value to your home with aesthetic enhancements to its exterior. Lighting can play a key role in the appearance and grandeur of your home. Here are some things to consider you're wondering how to improve kerb appeal of your home with exterior lighting:
Uplighting
Uplighting is a lighting technique where the lights are placed low to the ground while casting their light upwards highlighting architectural features against the facade of a property. This technique also works well on statues, trees and fences, providing a warm glow and a welcoming appearance to the exterior of a property.
Downlighting
Downlighting is where lights are mounted high up and angled down to mimic natural light and avoid glare. This technique is often used to give a stylish and dramatic appearance to a home, and works well with homes with large exterior walls.
String Lights
String Lights are decorative additions to your garden. While they offer little amount of illumination, they can create a pleasant and enchanting glow to your garden. String lights work particularly well in outdoor living areas like patios and pergolas for a cosy and inviting atmosphere.
Other Tips for Exterior Lighting
1. Choosing the Right Lighting: Match the lighting style to the purpose (e.g., bright lights for security, soft lights for ambiance).
2. Energy-Efficient Options: Opt for LED or solar-powered lights to save on energy costs and reduce your carbon footprint.
3. Maintenance: Regularly clean the fixtures and replace any faulty bulbs to ensure optimal performance.
Final Thoughts
Exterior lighting plays a vital role in enhancing the safety, functionality, and beauty of your home. Whether you choose to install an up-down wall light, garden path lighting, security lights, or decorative string lights, there are plenty of options to consider.
When it comes to making an impression, The Bespoke Sign House has years of experience in making your home stand out from the crowd. Whether you’re looking to make the perfect first impression, we have the perfect house sign for you. Or if you’re looking for a more hands-on approach to your homes exterior, check out our detailed guides on our blog page.