Areas Where You Might Want to Install Outside Lighting

• Walkways, paths, and driveways
  Lighting your front walk and/or driveway is inviting to visitors, helps discourage intruders, and adds safety for anyone approaching your home.
• Pools and hot tubs
• Gazebos, Arbors & Trellises
• Decks, Docks and Boardwalks
  Use downlighting to light the walkways for safety. If your deck or dock has any built-in seating, a soft overheard, downward-aimed light can make the seating more inviting, or use under-seat downlighting for a dramatic effect. Waterproof lighting underneath a dock, aimed at the water, will attract marine life and make your dock a great observation point to watch the fish.
• Gardens and Flowerbeds
  You can use ground lighting to outline the flowerbed and uplighting to highlight shrubs or large plants.
• Trees
  Use uplighting to highlight the tree canopy or the texture of its bark. Trees will reflect the light back into your yard, as well.
• Garden ponds, Fountains, and Birdbaths
  Any place that your yard has water is a great place for special lighting effects. Soft colored lights can add a particularly dramatic effect, but don't neglect plain white lights to catch the sparkles and reflections from the water.
• Fences
  Bounce a floodlight off the fence for a dramatic look as well as increased security.