Outdoor Living Space Lighting, Why the Back of the House Needs a Different Plan|How to Light a Patio? Start With How You Use It|Outdoor Living Lighting Done Properly: A Homeowner's Guide

The back of the house is not curb appeal

Front yard lighting is seen from outside. The patio is a place you occupy. Everything changes when you become the audience from within. Nobody cares how the patio reads from the road. The only test is whether anybody wants to sit there.The short version: the patio deserves its own plan. The front and the back rarely get solved by the same fixtures, and one light over the door is the usual result of not planning it. Two spaces, two separate sets of requirements to satisfy.

What actually drives people inside

A single glaring bulb undoes an otherwise good plan. A bare bulb at eye height makes everything behind it disappear, so the rest of the property vanishes. Aim for light you notice the effect of but not the source of.

Bistro and string lighting

The reason overhead strings feel right is that they define a room. A patio without them is a slab under an open sky. Add a canopy of light and the space closes in. Keep them soft, always.None of this is a question of spending more, since most of what separates a good patio from a harsh one is where things point.

How the pieces stack

A patio works best with a few layers rather than one solution. Something overhead for general warmth. Something low so nobody trips on the way to the door. And a little accent on a tree or a wall. Put them on separate controls if you can, because the dinner setting and the cleaning up setting are not the same.

Commercial outdoor dining

A restaurant patio has to solve this every single night. Warm overhead light is the difference between seating outside and not. Nothing changes technically. Only the reason does.

More nights outside

Without light, the back yard has a curfew. With light, the hours stop being the limit. In the Upstate that is a real number of extra evenings, and almost all of them are dark by six. The lighting is the thing standing between a nice evening and an unused patio.

Something worth knowing about color

Outdoor light brings company in the summer. Warmer light is less interesting to most insects, which conveniently matches what looks good anyway. It helps. It is not a solution. But it is https://dominickxtko814.vantagequill.com/posts/christmas-light-installation-a-guide-to-hiring-it-out-hiring-a-christmas-light-installer-what-the-job-includes worth factoring in.If a permanent system runs along the roof over the back of the house, keep it warm and dim when people are out there, and the patio and the house agree.

Getting your patio looked at

The plan comes from walking it, not from a catalog. EverCrest Lighting designs and installs patio and outdoor living lighting for residential and commercial properties in Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina, from Greenville. The consultation is free. Call (864) 252-1732 or email [email protected].

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