Turn Your Life On: 5 Essential Benefits of Landscape Lighting

Life is made of moments. How do you want to live yours?

Skillfully designed and installed landscape lighting can double your living space. From elevated safety to more engaging outdoor areas, there are five essential benefits to having a professional light up your home.

Essential Benefit # 1: Live More of Your Life Outside

Just imagine what it would be like to spend more time in your home's outdoor spaces.

The buzz of a late-night dinner party is in the air. Your friends and family fill up the cozy spaces of your backyard—the circular couch around the fireplace, the high-top chairs at the bar, and the lounge furniture by the pool. You look around the landscape, and gratitude washes over you. This is what you've always wanted.

It's late, and the kids are tucked away in bed. You're holding hands with your love, walking across the deck to the jacuzzi. The time of day has finally come to slow down and reconnect, and you sink into each other, relaxing in the comfort of the night.

A close friend you last saw a while ago comes over. The sunsets are gorgeous outside, so you snag a bottle of wine from the cellar, walk together outside to the back patio, light the fire pit, and savor catching up.

Laughter echoes from the corners of your family's outdoor playground. Little bare feet run from the trampoline to the slide and back again. They could never do this after dark before.

When you can retreat to and interact with the outdoor areas of your home, you double your living space and the quality of your life.

Essential Benefit # 2: Safety & Security Brings You Peace of Mind

Being able to see clearly in the darkness is what allows you to have these experiences in your outdoor living spaces. A better view of your driveway, areas with steps, and walking paths makes it easier and safer to move around your property.

Most importantly, the increased visibility creates a security safeguard since ideal hiding places are illuminated, deterring trespassers and reducing the risk of burglaries. Adding professionally installed landscape lighting to your total home defense system may qualify you for a decrease in homeowner's insurance premiums. Check with your carrier to see if they offer discounts.

Essential Benefit # 3: Accentuate Custom Features and Landscaping

Hardscape lighting and landscape features become impressive showpieces in the proper lighting, creating a breathtaking environment. Outdoor kitchens, fire pits, covered patios, and dining areas become your favorite places to linger when creatively illuminated, especially when looking out to luminous flower gardens and backlit tree canopies.

Essential Benefit # 4: Elevate the Curb Appeal of Your Home

According to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) top design trends for 2024, exterior lighting, patios, front porches, and landscaping are among buyers' top wish list items.

Landscape lighting, when accompanied by a finished landscape design, has one of the highest impacts on a home's curb appeal, adding to the enjoyability of customized living spaces.

However, before you roll up your DIY sleeves and unintentionally turn your front porch into Yankee Stadium with a couple of rows of puck lights and create a landing strip with path lights along your driveway, schedule a professional landscape lighting designer to give you a free consultation and proposal.

Essential Benefit # 5: Increase Your Home Value

An economist with the National Association of Realtors (NAR) indicated that homeowners are embracing finished outdoor spaces, especially since the pandemic, and they are beautiful to buyers if they want to sell. Since Realtors, homeowners, and home buyers alike continue to place the highest value on curb appeal, that directly impacts the return on investment of a professionally designed landscape lighting system.

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I am Dale Daniel of Dale Daniel Landscape Lighting Design in Long Island, New York.

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