Focus light where it's needed. Outdoor landscape lighting fixtures are available in a variety of beam spreads that allow you to to tailor the light to your specific application and create the perfect end effect you desire.
Tall, thin beam of light ideal for grazing trees and column features.
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Less Is More
Don't overpower your landscape features. Instead, aim to create contrast between light and shadows. An overlit tree can distract from an otherwise balanced landscape lighting design.
Don't Be Afraid To Make Contact
Most smaller trees will look best when the beam grazes the truck on its way up to the canopy.
Bring Out The Contrast
Narrow beam widths throw more concentrated light on the trunk, creating contrasts and drawing out shadows, variations, bark texture, knots, and other features. By contrast, wide beam spreads soften details.
Less Is More
Don't overpower your landscape features. Instead, aim to create contrast and drawing out shadows.
Plan Your Viewing Angles
Think about who will be viewing the lighting effects and at what angles. How will the tree appear from the street and from inside the home? More viewing angles may require more accent lights.
Path Lighting
When adding path lighting along a sidewalk, it is important to use a center-to-center measurement rather than linear, to help ensure your fixture spacing is not subject to the width of the walkway.
STAGGERED PATH LIGHTING
Install path lights at least 6" away from the edge of the pathway and space the fixtures at 15', using a center-to-center measurement. This will leave a 2'-5' gap between pools of light for proper illumination.
LINEAR PATH LIGHTING
By spacing the fixtures at 12', the area/gap between pools of light would end up being just over 2' on the near side of the walkway and 9' on the far side of the walkway.
