Designing Low Voltage Landscape Lighting

2008-04-23 16:12:38

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Well-designed landscape lighting, such as low voltage landscape lighting, offers a number of advantages in addition to the aesthetic appeal it provides during nighttime. These benefits include allowing you to expand the utilization of your outdoor rooms after the sun sets, increasing your home's security, and helping you to safely walk on your outdoor alleys and staircase when it is already dark.

Low voltage landscape lighting sets, which include low voltage light bulbs, can easily be purchased from a home center or garden supply store. Materials used for low voltage landscape lighting may be plastic or metal. And they are available in a wide array of designs and styles that give distinct effects in your landscape.

During the planning stage of your landscape, it is best to make a plan and install your low voltage landscape lighting prior to the completion of your planting area. However, if you have already finished the planting activity, it is advisable to make diggings of trenches and to bury the low voltage cabling with utmost care so as not to ruin your garden beds or lawn grass.

Your lighting design should avoid the usual mistake of overdoing the landscape lighting. Overlighting often does not produce the dramatic effect you want in your garden, and it can also be annoying to your neighbors. Remember to focus your lights on the objects you want to illuminate, and the glow of the lights, instead of the fixtures and low voltage light bulbs. You will get this effect by positioning your low voltage landscape lighting in inconspicuous place like your garden beds, or behind the shrubs.

You may want to take a look at your yard at night when you start planning your low voltage landscape lighting. This way, you will be able to note down the areas that require illumination.


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