Expand Your Nighttime Living Space into the Outdoors

We know Delaware homeowners love their outdoor spaces. Adding patios, walkways, retaining walls, fire pits, and home kitchens are great ways to make the most of your property. But what happens when the sun sets? Why invest in a great yard, landscaping, and living space if you can’t enjoy at the times when you’re home the most; in the evening?

When you install thoughtful lighting options in your patio and outdoor living spaces, you expand the boundaries of your home at night. While many people add lighting to the areas around their doors, you can also use outdoor lighting to make many other parts of your property more attractive, safer, and easier to access at night.

Outdoor lighting is a smart way to increase the safety of your home. Not only is outdoor lighting a crime deterrent, but a comprehensive outdoor lighting system also ensures your family and guests are much less likely to trip or fall on steps or outdoor surfaces in the night.

Boundary lighting is a term used for adding lights to the perimeters of your property. By using low output wall wash fixtures, you can create soft, glowing light around the edges of your yard. Wall wash lighting is also a great way to highlight a feature far from the house, such as a gazebo or pergola.

Many homeowners use outdoor lighting to enhance special yard or garden areas, while others use lighting to create outdoor spaces throughout the property. For example, a homeowner who wants to build a firepit area far from the central patio may wish to create a well-lit pathway to the fire pit for easier access.

Finally, home lighting can be programmed to provide flexibility. With the use of programming kits, you can add features like timers, lighting zones, and even colored lights. This allows you to decide which lighting, or how much lighting, to use for any occasion.

Light Every Part of Your Deck, Patio, and Yard.

While many homeowners are familiar with uplighting and outdoor lamplights, today’s home lighting options include hundreds of attractive and practical options. You now have many choices if you want to light your yard and outdoor spaces. In addition to the dramatic up lights, many homeowners use to light the front of their house, softer, more subtle lights can also be built into retaining walls and steps, to increase safety at night.

By lighting paths and walkways, you make it easier to enjoy every part of your property once the sunsets. On paved surfaces, you can build lighting into sections of the pavement that are flush with the grade.

More and more homeowners want ways to bathe their patios and decks in soft, night lighting. For these people, downlights and in-ground or well lights can provide the right amount of ambient lighting and can be designed to be invisible during the day.

For bars, grill structures, fire pits, walls, fireplaces, or other hardscaped features, you can use built-in lamps or integrated LED fixtures to create task lighting, under counter lighting, or soft ambient lighting.

Even water features benefit from night lighting. Imagine the visual excitement of a lit fountain or fishpond that you can enjoy in the evening. Colored lights can add even more drama.

Trusted Partners and Experienced Teams

R & L Irrigation partners with FX Luminaire, a trusted and proven landscape lighting manufacturer that offers hundreds of lighting options. Our partnership with FX Luminaire allows us to provide our customers with the best value and highest quality in landscape lighting.

All of our lighting designs and installations come with our standard 5-year warranty to ensure customer satisfaction. Our expert staff will survey your area and asses your needs for landscape lighting. A custom design and quote will be provided at no cost. Contact us today to get started.