Landscape Lighting Design Principles

Lights can help you safely travel down a pathway but they can also provide a gorgeous view and allow you to enjoy your landscaping even after dark.

Landscape lighting design principles. The fixtures lenses bulbs and transformers are a deeper set of site-specific choices for future forums. 6 principles of lighting water features. Other areas of focus can include plants driveways pathways decks and lawns.

Although I do not recommend solar powered landscape lighting I still highly recommend non-solar powered LED lights. There are 3 principles to Landscape lighting installation. 25 - 45 degrees for medium height and width such as a prized tree.

Silhouetting Silhouetting is created when the image of a distinctive plant tree statue or other landscape object is reflected against a wall or other vertical surface. When lighting separate entities such as a prominent tree or a featured piece of architecture the lighting should flow smoothly together. Keep these tips in mind when selecting and placing fixtures.

Therefore its important to introduce some variety or contrast to the landscape design. Design Product and Engineering all must be addressed. To continue our three part series on landscape lighting lets consider the key design principles that will ensure a beautiful and well-planned landscape.

Design Principles For Landscape Lighting. The landscape design principles are proportion order repetition and unity. Contact us at 866 954-4489.

The principles are the fundamental concepts of compositionproportion order repetition and unitythat serve as guidelines to arrange or organize the features to create an aesthetically pleasing or beautiful landscape. Outdoor lighting designer with McKay Landscape Lighting in Omaha Nebraska. Its important to think about proportion between plants and hardscapes.