By: T. Gilmore
Website: http://www.lamps-n-lighting.com

Outdoor landscape lighting, exterior fixtures to bring your backyard to life

Outdoor landscape lighting, is often as design element that is overlooked when renovating or in new home construction. Outdoor landscape lighting is best used to accent certain elements such as a plant, water fountain or garden paradise. Exterior light fixtures help to blend interior and backyard spaces to make your home feel larger. The effect of light and shadows illuminating your exterior spaces adds drama to your home.

Outdoor landscape lighting consists of a few zones such as uplighting, backlighting and path lighting:

• uplighting bounces indirect light off trees or plants and bounces back to the ground creating an awesome visual effect
• backlighting, or silhouetting, highlights the form of a plant or water fountain. Place the exterior light fixture between the plant and a broad surface such as a large rock behind it, aim the light at rock , then you will view the plants silhouette against a bright background.
• pathlighting, used to define paths or changes of levels in a sidewalk or walkway.

Outdoor landscape lighting is generally used to create effect, for drama. From the garden, pathways, trees and plants, exterior light fixtures go beyond safety and security considerations. They add life and mood to the dark night and bring it to the forefront with shadows and soft glowing effects.