4 Ways to Spice Up Your Outdoors with Landscape Lighting

Last month we talked about bringing your entertainment outside with outdoor TV. Outdoor TV and audio add another dimension of fun to your time outside, day or night. This month, we want to talk about how to light up the night with landscape lighting. Outdoor lighting can create the perfect ambiance for entertaining al fresco, summer movie nights (with the outdoor TV!) and relaxing on warm evenings in your pool or spa.

Keep reading below to learn about four outdoor landscape lighting ideas to bring out the beauty of your Athens, GA home.

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Pools and Water Features

Light and water can create a near-magical effect. Use underwater lighting in pools and fountains to create shimmering, beautiful light for nighttime activities outside. LED lighting adds even more options with color capability. You can theme your outdoor time with your favorite Georgia Bulldogs red – especially good for game watch parties – or any colors you prefer, from party bright orange and purple to soothing greens and blues. Shine a dimmed, warm light over or under the babbling water features, so they get the notice they deserve at night.

Downlights and Up Lights

Do you have an abundance of good trees? Consider highlighting them with up lights, adding drama as you look out over your yard at night. Or softly light up a large yard with downlights from your trees that mimic moonlight. It makes excellent lighting for a large front yard and can illuminate a dark, long driveway on your property.

Light the Path

For both safety and beauty, you can use embedded lights to illuminate walkways and paths. Other options to light hardscape, crushed granite, or mulched walkways are to use hidden stake-mounted lights in adjacent garden areas to light the way indirectly.

Zoning, Dimming, and Color

Until recently, outdoor landscape lighting didn’t allow for easy division of lighting areas into separately controllable zones or dimming and color options. Our new landscape lighting brand, FX Luminaire, has changed that.

Zoning allows different parts of your landscape lighting to be programmed into preset groups. Dimming enables you to use the advantage of LED lighting to dim lights to any desired level. FX Luminaire fixtures can also color your outdoor world – another benefit of LED – with an available spectrum of 30,000 colors. Combining all these options lets you use your imagination to create beautifully layered lighting scenes for your outdoors.

Ready to bring your landscape to life at night? Sunbelt Technology can show you all the ways you can light up your nights. Call us today at (404) 236-0007 or reach out on our online contact page. We look forward to working with you!