Side yards can be converted into beautiful and functional spaces. With the right outdoor lighting, it’ll be the perfect extension to a residential property. As a lighting contractor, you can offer your clients a customized outdoor landscape lighting plan and design for this often underutilized area and make it a space your clients will never want to leave.
This week’s blog post provides some outdoor landscape lighting inspiration so that no matter what your clients do with their side yards, you can help transform them into their dream outdoor space.
The Limitless Possibilities for Side Yards
By adding some outdoor features such as raised garden beds, arbors, and patio furniture, side yards can be tailored to fit your clients’ lifestyle. From chic walkways that connect the front to the back yards, intimate and cozy seating areas, to lush gardens filled with colorful rose bushes, or a play area for children, side yards can be functional and stylish outdoor spaces of a residential property.
Whatever purpose they serve, it will be necessary to fit them with outdoor landscape lighting to increase visibility and enhance the overall safety, security, and aesthetics of this outdoor space.
Outdoor Landscape Lighting Ideas for Side Yards
Regardless of what your clients do with their side yards, you can use the following ideas to create a personalized outdoor landscape lighting design that will enhance and complete the transformation of this often overlooked outdoor space.
- Path lightswere made to light walkways. To help reduce light glare and trespass, choose path lights that have hats or shrouds. They are also ideal to show off any colorful low-lying plants around the path, adding to the beauty of the overall space.
- If the side yard is big enough, there could be more than low-lying plants and bushes. Taller and bigger plants like trees, rose bushes, or bamboo plants can add more greenery to side yards. They also make great focal points. Up lightsand well lights are excellent outdoor light fixtures to showcase them.
- Add string lightsto a seating area to give it a cozy vibe, making it the perfect setting for a gathering with friends.
- Give a wash of light with flood lights. They can also highlight the cool texture and architectural features of exterior walls or fences.
- Arbors add a bit more visual interest as they mark the entrance to the space. Use downlightsto light them so they are more visible in the dark. Up lights can also be installed to increase visibility and call attention to the arbor’s design.
- For safety reasons, if there are steps in the side yard, add step lightsto prevent any trips or falls.
- Emphasize the unique material of any hardscape by installing hardscape lightsinto it.
- A pond or water fountain can definitely be an eye-catching feature to a side yard. Underwater lights are specifically made and designed to illuminate these features.
- Wall lightscreate visual interest by highlighting the texture of the exterior walls or fence while also providing enough light to safely navigate the space.
With outdoor landscape lighting, the side yard becomes a safe and pretty place to host a gathering, relax, or entertain.
Illuminate Side Yards with Outdoor Landscape Lighting Supplies from LightCh8in
When it comes to outdoor areas of a residential property, larger spaces like backyards, front lawns, pools, and decks take up the most thought and consideration. More often than not, people forget about one more outdoor space: side yards.
Options for side yards are endless: play areas for children, an intimate seating area, zen garden, and more. The best outdoor landscape lighting design for these spaces is one that will point out its unique features and guide people safely through the space.
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