How to use your landscape at night
A lot of work has been put into your home’s landscape, and now the best time to enjoy it is when the sun comes out. Or is it? Certainly it’s great to experience your property in the daytime, but who says it has to end when the sun sets. Landscape lighting can extend the life of your yard by making it accessible and viable at night. Here are a few ways you can use lighted landscape.
Enjoy the Beauty of Your Yard
If you hire the right professional landscape lighting company, they’ll illuminate your yard into something extraordinary. A strategically and well lit landscape can make different elements “pop” with the right highlighting and shading, it can bring life to your yard. Lighting combined with a great looking landscape can transform it into a piece of nighttime artwork. Having an aesthetically pleasing yard that you can see with the sun up or down will lift your spirits any time of day.
From the inside of your home you’ll be able to enjoy seeing through your windows onto your richly lit compound rather than a dark reflection of the inside of your house. When your friends and neighbors see your house’s landscape lighting, it won’t only enhance their experience of your home, it’ll compliment the whole neighborhood.
Host a BBQ
Barbeque’s are usually reserved for the summer. But even if it’s not terribly warm out, doesn’t mean you can’t fire up the grill and enjoy some tasty food. An outdoor lighting system will help keep your outdoor feasting events to a maximum. Gather the neighbors, grab the BBQ sauce, pull on a jacket and enjoy grilling any time of the year.
Cocktail Party
Since when do cocktail parties have to be indoors? If the weather is right, hosting a party outside is a perfect way to have you and your friends enjoy your great looking landscape. It’s always refreshing to spend a little bit more time outdoors, and there will probably plenty of extra room for people to spread out as compared to an indoor gathering.
Outdoor Conversation
Maybe your yard doesn’t have a fire pit to sit at outside to hang out around. No problem. Landscape lighting can illuminate your yard and keep the late night “fireside” conversations going through the night.
Yard Games
If you like to play outdoor games at your house, why let them stop at night? A well lit landscape can provide hours of fun into the night. There are plenty of games you can play during the night such as mini-golf, frisbee, corn hole, or croquet. Have a landscape lighting company help you out so the darkness doesn’t prevent your games from going on.
You can enhance your home both visually and functionally with the right landscape lighting. We would love to help you make that happen. contact us at https://oregonoutdoorlighting.com/contact/ for any questions or to make your appointment, today.
