Patio light offers the perfect way to add a little extra glow to your outdoor entertainment space and enhance its beauty. It’s a simple and easy addition to your landscaping that you can install yourself or have it professionally installed by a landscaper.
A variety of techniques are available to create a stunning focal point for your yard, including spotlighting, well lighting, and bullet lights. Choosing the right lighting technique for your entertainment space will determine the look and feel of your landscaping.
Spotlights are commonly used to highlight specific features of your landscape, such as a statue or part of your house. Variate the angle and distance of the spotlight to achieve your desired effect.
To illuminate a stair riser, a step light is a popular choice that will shine through slanted or sloped areas of your deck. This type of accent lighting also works great to define boundaries or illuminate stairs that might not have been easily spotted otherwise.
For shorter features, such as shrubs, try well lights. These round lights are pushed into the ground and cast bright pins of light over longer distances at an angle of your choice.
A zig-zag pattern, or V-pattern, uses the same technique as the crisscross patio lights but doubles your lights. A 100-foot strand of lights could be hung and angled every 20 feet to form this patterned lighting technique.
For a more quaint, rustic feel, wicker-style basket lights are a good option that can be hung from a pergola or other garden structure. These string lights are lightweight and a breeze to install. They’re rated for outdoors and come with steel posts that you can use to anchor them to your deck or pergola.