Accent lighting can enhance the look of any property. Whether it be by highlighting your home, or different areas of your landscape. Low-voltage outdoor lighting is popular because it can highlight important features of your yard, like unique features, trees, architecture, and pathways. With accent lighting, you can draw attention to the areas of your home that you love the most. There are many benefits of accent lighting we will cover some of them in this article.
Showcase Your Landscape
Utilize your accent lighting to showcase key features such as trees, bushes, your home’s architecture, and unique features. You can highlight a tree by adding an accent light by the tree's base shining up to create an eye-drawing effect even making your tree appear taller. By adding an accent light to your shrubs and flowers, it can help bring out natural beauty, and colours as well as bring a warm calming glow to your landscape.
Low-Voltage
The accent lights we carry at Wes-Tech are low-voltage outdoor lights. Being low-voltage there are numerous benefits as they operate at a 12/24V, which makes it less likely to receive a shock or start fires. This means that you can install these without a licensed electrician. They are energy efficient which in turn helps you save money. These accent lights will have a longer lifespan and can last up to 50 times longer than regular incandescent or halogen lights. Learn more about the benefits of low-voltage landscape lighting.
Increase Safety and Security
By adding accent lights around your home, you can help improve your home's safety and security. Try adding some accent lights around your home to light up dark areas either looking down on a walkway or uplighting a wall around your home will help deter intruders and improve safety.
Maximizing Curb Appeal
Whether you are planning to move soon or not, adding accent lighting to your home can boost the value and beauty of your property. The first glance at a property can make or break a sale. Try placing your accent lights at key features of your home, like up a large tree, or up a stone wall etc. Curb appeal isn’t just important when you’re trying to sell your house, it is also important to feel a warm glow and a happy atmosphere whether you're spending time outside or pulling up to your house at night.
Types of Accent Lights
Up lighting is a light that will be directed upwards, it can improve the look of many key features around your home. When up lighting you want to focus on highlighting key areas, and ways to enhance the appearance of the architecture of the home. Try highlighting architectural features, trees, shrubs, brick or stone walls, and sculptures. Up lighting can be great for creating shadows and adding depth to your property.
Downlights are lights mounted facing down from high points such as trees or gables to help achieve safety and security around a home by lighting the needed areas. So that you may get that desired descending light effect they can also be installed at other high points around the property. These can work great to light up a dark driveway surrounded by trees, pathways or other dark areas of the property.