Color Temperature

Not all white light is created equal. The color temperature can set the tone and enhance the colors of your home's landscape.

Beam Spreads & Uplighting

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.

ADDITIONAL UPLIGHTING TIPS

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.