Add Outdoor Lighting to Highlight Your Favorite Spaces in the Cascade and Byron Center, MI Areas

Add Outdoor Lighting to Highlight Your Favorite Spaces in the Cascade and Byron Center, MI Areas

Outdoor lighting can transform your Cascade and Byron Center, MI Areas outdoor spaces in the most amazing ways. If you have ever passed by a perfectly illuminated house that causes you to want to stop and take in the beauty, that is what landscape lighting can do for your outdoor spaces. Here are some ideas to inspire you!

Property Entry Lighting

Having landscape lighting at the entry to your property can increase the safety of coming and going after dark but it can also create an inviting atmosphere for guests. Imagine how lovely your property could look with gentle up-lights in the landscape beds on each side of the driveway.

You might like the look of adding spotlights that shine up onto the stone pillars of a fence that spans the length of the front yard along the street. Lighting that illuminates the house numbers can be helpful for friends and family when they visit after dark.

Driveway and Walkway Lighting

If you like the look of decorative light fixtures, you can choose fixtures to add a glow to the driveway surface so it is illuminated clearly. These fixtures can also cast a glow over the landscape beds that run along the driveway to highlight your favorite plantings. When you just want the light but don’t want to see fixtures, a landscape professional can add discreet fixtures that are hidden from view but shine over the driveway.

Walkway lighting is similar to driveway illumination in that you can have fixtures or more discreet lighting that illuminates the walkway for easy, safe access to your front door. Illuminating the foundation of your house can look amazing and make it stand out in the dark landscape.

Adding lights to the landscape beds by entry steps and beneath the treads can increase visibility and offer secure footing for guests.

Front Landscape Lighting

Adding spotlights to the trees can illuminate the bark texture for an interesting look of shadows and rough edges. You can opt for lighting in the tree branches that shine down to create dappled light on the grass below.

Lighting for the landscape beds can make them stand out in the darkened front yard. This can be an amazing way to illuminate a pretty ornamental tree or a fountain in a landscape bed where you can see the water bubbling over the surface.

Backyard Lighting

Lighting the backyard areas can focus on the spaces that you want to use after the sun sets. The patio can benefit from light fixtures that emit a glow over the surface while overhead lighting can be brighter for tasks and dimmable when you just want to relax and enjoy the evening.

Illuminating the walkways can add visibility for guests when you entertain and the gathering lasts until after dark. When you add soft spotlights to the boundary fencing, this illumination can increase the security you feel in the backyard and add an intimate atmosphere to the yard after dark.

Adding lights to the landscape beds and mature trees can be the finishing touch you need in this space so even when you are not outdoors, you can look out and be delighted by the lighted view of your outdoor spaces.

About the Author

In 2017, Josh Van Spyker started Van Spyker Landscaping as a side gig that focused solely on lawn maintenance. After earning the Belgard Authorized Contractor and Aquascape Certified Contractor status, it was time to expand the business full-time and bring in the first employee. Today, he has a team of five full-time employees who enjoy being a part of a positive team culture, going on fun team outings, and creating beautiful outdoor living spaces.

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