Exterior Lighting Tips To Show Off Your House At Night

We all love our homes to have plenty of kerb appeal and this is much easier in the summer months. You can use landscaped gardens, beautifully laid pathways and summer houses to really help your home stand out from your neighbours – but as the darker nights draw in, your home becomes invisible.

Here at Revamp, we want to help you achieve that gorgeous kerb appeal for your home all year round so we have put together some top tips for achieving this. But first we would like to tell you what we think are the four key aims you should be considering when illuminating the front of your home.

1. Your outdoor lighting should direct visitors to your front door easily
2. Your outdoor lighting should accent the features of your front garden
3. Your outdoor lighting should highlight the architecture of your home
4. Your outdoor lighting should provide effective home security for you, your family and your possessions

Now for ways that you can help show off your house, even during the darkest of nights!

Illuminate Your Front Door

You can use outdoor lighting to make a focal point of your main entrance; this is the first impression of your home that guests will get so make sure it stands out for all the right reasons. An illuminated front door will also increase your home security when unexpected visitors come late at night.

Light Up The Pathway

Outdoor lighting can be used really cleverly to light up the path from the pavement to the front entrance. This will help avoid slips and trips for your family as well as visitors to your home. Outdoor lighting is essential if you have walkway levels, ponds or architectural quirks in your garden.

Garden Plant Spotlights

Using outdoor lighting to spotlight garden plants can create drama and night time interest in your garden by using simple up-lighters in existing planters. Larger and fuller plants such as a Yucca plant can look amazing lit up and create an inviting atmosphere for your home.

Garage Lighting

If your front door is any distance from your garage then exterior lighting for your garage is highly recommended. This sort of outdoor lighting isn’t just for style and aesthetics, but it’s a matter of personal safety too. Consider if standard outdoor lighting would work better for you, or if you would prefer sensor lighting.

If you’d like to improve the kerb appeal of your home and like some of the outdoor lighting ideas that we have suggested then please contact us directly; we would be only too happy to meet up and discuss options with you.