What’s the best light for boosting a home’s curb appeal at night? Well, it depends on your home, your neighborhood, your budget, and your design goals.
Clearing out clutter, curating specific pieces, and carefully adding color and texture are the typical credos from us designers for increasing your home’s curb appeal.
But, because of our work lives, many people actually see your home more frequently at night than during the day. So don’t forget that light is an ideal way to show-off your home‘s curb appeal features.
And make sure to combine your exterior lighting plan with window treatments like those from ABC Blinds and Awnings for privacy so your curb appeal doesn’t unintentionally illuminate the interior of your household for full view from the street.
Landscape designers and holiday lighting enthusiasts often use spotlighting to show-off a home’s curb appeal and key features of a home at night. Whether it’s Santa in a sled, the gorgeous oak tree, or an architectural feature on the facade, spotlighting is one way to invite passersby to focus on those special parts of your home’s decor or holiday decorating.
Spotlights that blend in with the natural landscaping are a favorite of ours, like these faux-rock lights.
Downlighting is often used as pathway lighting or to create pools of light around interesting gardening features. By casting the lighting downward, there is little chance the lighting will affect anyone’s rest in neighboring homes.
Even better, solar-powered downlighting is an easier way to create the desired ambience and path lighting in a backyard.
Casting a light upward has been a popular way to show off grand trees or to create ambient lighting. Sometimes they are in the form of a porch light, security light, or an exterior wall sconce.
Some uplighting sconces also include downlighting, like these modern solar outdoor sconces.
In some areas, uplighting is undesirable because of light pollution that effects the view of the stars and flight paths of nocturnal creatures.
Whether you have a porch or a simple entryway, lighting helps make it easy to see the house number for guests and emergency workers at night. It’s also an opportunity to express a design intention. Whether you want a simple light fixture or a statement piece, the lighting around the doorway helps create that first impression and set the mood for a new visitor, too.
This outdoor pendant lighting fixture would fit with traditional and transitional homes, and with modern farmhouse styles, too.
With all of the doorbell cameras and other popular security features, security lighting is having a moment. Once industrial-looking options were the only choices within budget-friendly reach, now there are slimmer and streamlined versions.
Today’s options can fit in with many house styles, so the security lighting can actually enhance a home’s curb appeal at night. Some, like this pair of solar wall hanging lights are activated by motion-sensor and don’t require any wiring.
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I am so glad that I was able to find this! My wife and I are getting a deck installed in our backyard, and we really want to make sure we have the right lighting back there. So I really appreciate you talking about this, and for giving me some great ideas I can do in order to have the proper lighting. I'll definitely make sure I try these.