As the sun sets, the unique architectural features of a home and the beauty of its landscaping fade into the shadows. An intentionally designed outdoor lighting system highlights a property’s beauty, even after dark. Quality outdoor lighting not only improves curb appeal, it also illuminates sidewalks, pathways, and stairways preventing the risk of a guest tripping or falling. What’s more, exterior lighting sends a signal to would-be intruders to “move along”.
Outdoor lighting enhances your home’s beauty, safety, and security, creating an evolving and inviting atmosphere as day turns into night.
Illuminate Your Biggest Asset
Outdoor lighting is a finishing touch that takes landscaping and homes from ordinary to stunning. A professionally designed and installed lighting system offers reliability while adding a new level of polished elegance to outdoor spaces, creating a subtle, inviting ambiance.
With the wide variety of outdoor lighting fixtures now available, professional lighting designers are able to create custom systems designed to perfectly highlight and accentuate all the best features of a home’s architecture and landscaping. From tasteful path lights to soft spotlights and dramatic uplights, a lighting system tailored to a specific property adds depth, dimension, and character after the sun goes down. A professional lighting design plan aims to create a specific look and feel and uses the right balance of light and dark to achieve it.
Outdoor lighting systems use specific fixtures to dramatically illuminate landscaping. Other specialized lighting fixtures are used to illuminate and highlight a home’s architectural and design features. Other types of subtle – and even adjustable – outdoor lighting can be incorporated into hardscaped entertainment areas, providing just the right warmth and ambiance to enchant guests throughout the evening and into the night.
Beyond the aesthetic benefits of an outdoor lighting system, there are numerous safety and security advantages.
Boost Safety and Security
Strategically placed footlights can eliminate potentially dangerous “trip” spots for homeowners and guests, helping to prevent stumbles and slips. Enhanced visibility makes it significantly easier and safer to navigate outdoor spaces after dark.
By strategically illuminating the edges of driveways, pathways, sidewalks, porches, and steps, artfully nuanced directed light helps provide guidance that reduces the risk of trips and falls. Short pole-mounted dome lights, inset well lights, and bidirectional wall lights are some of the many options for walking areas.
Form meets function with a custom lighting solution from Heinen.
A well-lit home also deters trespassers by eliminating dark zones and illuminating home entrances. A well-lit home exterior makes it much less likely that an unwanted guest will approach a home. And with the use of Wi-Fi-based lighting timers and easy-to-use smartphone control apps, a homeowner can set lighting programs to give the appearance of being home – even while out of town on business or vacation.
Custom lighting systems from Heinen are easy to control thanks to FX Luminaire’s handy mobile app which provides the ability to adjust seasonal schedules, tune brightness levels, and even change colors to match the seasons—or those of a favorite sports team. Customization is quick, easy, and can be done with a few clicks on the smartphone app.
The Lighting Pros at Heinen are Here to Help
The Heinen lighting team has over 35 years of experience designing and installing high-performance lighting systems for both homes and businesses. Heinen’s lighting design and installation expertise pairs well with top-quality lighting products from one of the top brands on the market, FX Luminaire. It’s a combination that ensures every lighting system installation from Heinen will meet the homeowner’s specific lighting needs with an effective, reliable, and aesthetically pleasing lighting solution for many years to come.
