Retaining Wall Lighting
Retaining Wall Lighting Gives a Beautiful Ambience for Your Home
Installing Retaining Wall Lighting is a great way to brighten the areas around your walls, hardscapes, and add different designs to your retaining walls. By day, they blend seamlessly into your retaining wall, and by night, their glow is a unique and beautiful addition to your landscaping.
Types of Retaining Wall Lighting
One way is by installing flood lights that point upward toward a tree, shrubs, or other large plants. The shadow cast by the tree or shrubs lays a silhouetted shadow against the background of the wall.
Another method of Outdoor Wall Lighting is called "grazing." With this method, the lighting is placed about 6 to 12 inches out from the base of the wall and pointed up at an angle. Grazing is the best method for bringing out the beauty of a textured or colored concrete landscape wall.
Retaining Wall Lighting both Accents Your Landscapes, Hardscapes and Provides Safety to Your Home
Reasons to Add Retaining Wall Lighting
Besides enhancing the beauty of the landscaping or the wall, there are other good reasons to add light:
1. Lighting improves safety. Retaining Walls may be built near a garden path, or at the edge of the lawn. Either way, lighting at night makes the yard and garden safer to walk through at night, whether you're moving a sprinkler or playing catch with your dog. Even if you know your way around your yard pretty well, your friends may not, and risk tripping on small plants or landscape rocks.
2. Lighting is economical. You can usually purchase a four pack of lights for less than two-hundred dollars. And there are a variety of styles to choose from.
3. Lighting provides mood and atmosphere. More than enhancing the beauty of your landscape, some people feel that outdoor mood lighting is more romantic than an unlit yard. Soft lights on the wall and surrounding foliage also create a peaceful, serene setting.
Strategically Placed Lights on Your Retaining Wall Give an Atmosphere of Peace and Tranquility to Your Lawn or Garden
Remember, the purposes of the lighting are primarily safety and beauty. Too much light will make the area safe, but distracting. Too little can be just as distracting and make the area unsafe at night.
Whether you are starting a new landscape project from scratch, or improving on an existing yard or garden, Retaining Wall Lighting is an easy and affordable way to enhance almost any landscape.
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