to consider updating your exterior with lighting that is functional, beautiful and enhances your home’s safety. Outdoor lighting is a deterrent to intruders, as it leaves them exposed with nowhere to hide. It also provides safely illuminated areas for you and your family as you come and go or spend time outdoors.
You’ll want to choose lighting based on the location and the need in that particular area. For example, driveways and entrances are great places for lighting that detects motion. When you (or anyone else) enters the driveway or approaches the door, the lighting will automatically kick on. These fixtures should be positioned to maximize safety and minimize any glare that might disturb you in the home. A downward orientation and shielded vision on these types of fixtures creates clear lighting without glare.
For areas where you want more continuous lighting, such as backyard, patio or play areas that might be used in the evening, floodlights are effective. High Intensity Discharge (HID) lighting is energy efficient and long lasting, and is used often in landscape lighting. Halogen or incandescent lights are commonly used in floodlight applications.
Take a look around your home with an eye toward safety. Brighten your entrances with welcoming fixtures, illuminate dark corners with floodlights and consider keeping your home secure with motion detecting lighting.
