As you plan a new front yard landscape design for your Naperville and Oswego, IL, property, you might want to incorporate outdoor lighting for nighttime illumination. These lighting ideas can bring beauty to your darkened landscape.
Creating a Welcoming Entrance
Many homes and streets don’t have proper lighting to allow you and your guests to see the driveway to your property clearly at night. This can be a safety hazard but more importantly, no one can see how lovely your yard is because it is dark.
Landscape professionals can address this issue by adding discreet lighting to the landscape beds on either side of the driveway. Uplights can illuminate the pretty ornamental trees there while gentle wash lighting can highlight the shrubs. As an aside, if you don’t have enticing landscape beds at the entrance of your driveway, your landscape contractor can help you with that, too.
Adding lighting along the driveway can make entering and parking much easier. With discreet light fixtures that are hidden by landscape plants along the driveway edges, no one will notice the mechanics but you will be able to see the gorgeous effects. Soft lighting that casts a gentle glow over the driveway surface from both sides might be just what you need to make this area more attractive and visible in the night time.
If you have a beautiful paver walkway leading to your front door, you would not want to hide its beauty in the dark. Soft lights can call attention to the paver’s textures while giving you a lovely view as you proceed home at night. As the light shines on the mortar crannies and the varied surfaces of the walkway pavers, visitors can see to move from the parking area to your front entry with ease.
Home and Foundation Lighting
Don’t let your home get lost in the dark when you are so proud of its beauty and design. Your landscape professionals can recommend the ideal outdoor lighting fixtures to bring out your favorite features.
For the foundation, soft wash lighting can highlight the rough stone or brick surfaces for a contrast of light with darkened crannies. This type of outdoor lighting can also cast illumination on the shrubs nearby, making the whole look ethereal. You might also choose to add soft spotlights to the front of the foundation landscape plants for additional beauty.
More Detailed Front Yard Lighting
The final piece to your front yard revamp can be adding illumination to your landscape beds and fencing. Spotlights can be placed at intervals to give the tree trunks dimension and interest. They look amazing with the dark crevices and illuminated bark.
Your landscape contractor in Oswego, IL can also add lighting to landscape beds for highlighting pretty rose bushes, seasonal flowers, and other landscape details like a fountain. You might want to have them illuminate the boundaries of your front yard with lighting on the fencing.
A customized plan for your outdoor lighting can be a feature that you never knew you needed until you have it, to give a darkened landscape the right light, for a welcoming atmosphere.
Related: How Outdoor Lighting Plans Bring Beauty, Safety to the Paver Patio and Walkways in Naperville, IL
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