Landscape lighting for your yard needs to consider practicality. In the practicality aspect for lighting your yards landscape you need to consider durability, security and weather resistance. This can be achieved by a layered approach to lighting your yard. Illuminating your yard isn't as easy as you think as you'll need to see what hardscape and features you have then adapt your lights to this. Once you’ve identified what you're working with you need to find the appropriate lights that can highlight it accordingly.

Find Your Main Features

The first step of landscape lighting is identifying what features stand out and need to be highlighted. A water fountain, plants, statues, etc. In most people's gardens the most common features are mainly stairs, a patio and plants. So, let's talk about these!

Highlighting Plants

For a group of plants, you're going to need subtle lower intensity lighting to accentuate the plants, rather than bright white floodlight washing them out. So look for lower powered up lighting options, such as a 10Wor 15W floodlight RGB or daylight in order to have a wide enough beam angle to cover some area but at the same time not over light the feature.

Path Lighting

Path lights are low level floor facing lights that illuminate the ground for people at night time. They provide general illuminance offering safety and guidance for getting to your home, wile also bringing an accent lighting dimension. If you have a long yard and walk up to your home, path lights are great for making your home safer and more aesthetic.

As a general rule, path lights should be around 6-8 ft apart, and if you have an actual pathway put the lights on alternating sides to increase the illumination. Either buy them in a set or the same style, so the appearance and lighting is balanced throughout the yard. If you have an odd mix of types and colors of path lights it will not look even.

Main types of path light are bollard lights, flush lights or spotlights. Each of these can me installed on the ground and produce enough illuminance on the way to your home. Each light can be somewhere around 200-500 lumens, depending on the size of your yard and how much brightness you want.

Step Lights

For stair lighting there is two types. Depending on where and how your garden steps are situated, will determine how the lights are installed. Most LED step lights are multiple function. Meaning they can be used as wall mounts or recessed step installations. For commercial properties or homes with large front porches and side staircases wall mounts are the best choice. For steps in the yard or leading up towards your home a recessed stair light is the better option. If you're looking for more light and to cover more space subtly a combination of wall mounts and step lights can be a great answer.

What is the Best Wall Mount or Stair Light?

SGLEDs Step light or wall mount light is a perfect fit for the exterior of your home. These lights are solar powered so do need to be installed in areas with daylight exposure. However, their charging time Is fast and they can start working immediately. The best feature of these lights is their D2D sensor within the solar panel. This means once you switch them on they're reactionary and will turn on as soon as it gets dark. Providing your home with general and aesthetic illumination! These lights come in 4 packs so can be used in multiple practical and aesthetic scenarios. Us them to light exits and entrances of the home and use them to light the stairway to your home. The options are endless and the options look bright!