As the weather warms and you look forward to spending more time outside, incorporating creative outdoor lighting into your landscape features can add nighttime drama and interest to your Lexington, MA, property. Any of these lighting ideas can transform your landscape.
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Retaining or Privacy Wall Lights
You need the retaining or privacy wall for making your landscape more functional but there is no reason why it can’t be on display after dark. Having your landscaper add up-lights that focus on the wall can create a lighted geometric pattern on the wall, drawing the eye toward your landscape. When there are walkways or a driveway nearby, adding some recessed lighting to these spaces can present a unified whole once the sun sets, giving your landscape a note-worthy appearance.
For the Perimeter
When you want to bring more definition to your landscape, have your landscaper and stone mason design a low planting masonry wall that follows the line of a privacy fence. Because you can customize any planting wall, it can be as deep and tall as you wish.
They can assist you in the choices for ornamental trees to be planted in a line within the wall and then the spaces between can be planted with colorful annuals such as petunias and impatiens and perennials like Hosta and black-eye Susan for color and varied green tones. When your landscaper adds dramatic up-lights at the back of the trees and soft wash lights for the blank fence spaces between, the contrast of light and dark on the tree bark, illuminating the low plants, and highlighting the fence can make this space truly special.
Stair Lights
When you have stone or wood stairs, adding landscape lighting to the underside of these can increase the nighttime dazzle and safety as you move around the landscape. Your landscaper can add individual soft lights as a set underneath the stairs or a continuous line of gentle lighting to illuminate the entire stair tread.
This can be a wonderful addition to stairs at the front entry of your home, stairs that divide a retaining wall for access to the top of the hill, and steps that bring transition to your landscape features such as between the patio and outdoor kitchen.
For the Outdoor Kitchen
Cooking in your outdoor kitchen can be extended into the night time hours with strategic and creative outdoor lighting. When your landscaper adds lighting to under the counters, this can illuminate both the floor and the cabinets for easy visibility to remove what you need. Another space to add lighting can be over the countertops as task lights there can improve safety while you prep the food and can make it easy to know when the food is done.
To the Bar
Bringing lights to the bar space can increase the feel of the surrounding atmosphere to a festive and fun aesthetic that can fit with the vibe you want for this outdoor space. Having your landscaper add lights to the underside of the bar can allow your guests to sit with confidence and a clear view while the lights that can be added on the bar side can make mixing drinks and blending frozen creations a breeze even when the sun has set.
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