Landscape Lighting in Baton Rouge: Illuminating Your Lawn

There is a lot more to your landscaping than grass, shrubs, trees, flowers, and mulch. You can enhance the curb appeal of your home after the sun goes down while improving its safety and aesthetics. While fresh mulch, new perennials, and shapely bushes and trees all add to the visual beauty of your lawn while the sun is up, landscape lighting can bring it to another level, day or night. Here are a few benefits that professional landscape lighting can offer your property.

Enhanced Security with Landscape Lighting

Even with floodlights, porch lights, and other illumination tools, many dark and discreet places can still lurk around your front and back yards.  Landscape lighting has proven to be a useful deterrent to thieves and trespassers since lights can be placed anywhere to help remove dark. Not only does it draw attention to your property at night, but it also allows you better visibility for arriving and departing your home.

Improved Visual Appeal for Your Landscape

Strategically placed lights around your landscaping features, beneath trees, and bordering sidewalks, along brick walls or on brick columns and decking can add another aesthetic level to your yard. When properly designed and placed, these lights can be positioned to highlight the intricate details of your home’s architecture and vegetation. Downlights can emphasize a tree’s branches and the space beneath. Floodlights not only fill space, they can also highlight the color and texture of your landscaping for shadowing to bring life to the landscape on a windy night. With newer lighting fixture designs, there is almost a specific light for any application needed in order to accentuate the landscape features found in today's landscape gardens.

Increased Safety Around Your Lawn

If you expect guests or even unexpected guests, professionally installed landscape lighting can make their arrival, wandering, and departure a safer and more enjoyable journey. One small step off a sidewalk or an unseen step to the front porch can pose a serious health hazard. Landscape lighting can not only enhance the natural beauty of your home’s structure but the overall safety of the exterior of your home. The potentially dark areas that hide uneven walking paths and possible tripping hazards can be mitigated with professionally installed lighting.  For parties or frequent gatherings, well designed lighting can open up previously unusable areas and allow guest multiple places to hang out and conversate. Pathway lights work great to not only illuminate the deck space around a pool but can also add additional lighting in the water if placement is close enough to the edge of the pool adding to increased visibility when kids may be swimming after dark.

Professional Installation and Professional Fixtures

Professionally installed lightings ensures maximum effect out of your lighting design and with most professional grade lights offering up to 15-year warranties on fixtures, they are here to stay long term. There are light styles to fit every taste and fixtures to fit every application. When installed properly, lighting is a worry free, extremely low even to no maintenance addition to your landscape spaces. Professional grade systems can be automated to allow for worry free operation coming on just before sundown and off right at sunup or a range there in between.

For over a decade, Kyle’s Lawn and Landscaping have been taking care of homes and businesses in the Baton Rouge area. One of their expert services involves the installation of landscape lighting that not only enhances your home’s beauty but improves the safety and security of your property.