Outdoor Living Space Lighting, A Guide to Evening Outdoor Spaces|How to Light a Patio? Here Is What Works|Patio Lighting That Gets Used: A Homeowner's Guide

Two sides, two purposes

The front of a property gets judged from the street. Out back you are inside the lighting, not looking at it. Everything changes once you are the one sitting under it. Nobody is grading the back yard from the street. The only test is whether anybody wants to sit there.All of which is a long way of saying the back yard is its own project. The front and the back rarely get solved by the same fixtures, and assuming otherwise is how a patio ends up with one bright light on the wall. Two spaces, two separate sets of requirements to satisfy.

The thing that empties a patio

The fastest way to make an outdoor space unpleasant is one light source pointed https://evercrestlighting.com/ at eye level. Look at a bright source and your eyes stop adapting to the dark. Aim for light you notice the effect of but not the source of.

String lights are not a shortcut, they are a real technique

The reason overhead strings feel right is that they make a boundary. A patio without them is a slab under an open sky. Add a canopy of light and the area has walls it did not have. Keep them soft, always.The good version is not the expensive version, it is the planned one, and the planning is the part that costs nothing.

How the pieces stack

A patio usually needs three kinds of light. Overhead, low, and accent. Separate switching matters more than people expect.

The business version

For a business with outdoor seating, this is not decoration, it is capacity. Bistro and string lighting across a patio is what keeps guests seated once the sun goes. The same rules apply, just with a stronger reason to get it right.

More nights outside

Without light, the space closes when the sun does. With light, the space is available whenever the weather is. 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.

Warm light and the bug question

Anybody who has sat under a porch light in summer knows what shows up. Warmer light pulls in fewer of them, which conveniently matches what looks good anyway. It will not eliminate anything, and that is not a claim worth making. But it is a free consideration when choosing the setting.If a permanent system runs along the roof over the back of the house, set it warm and low for evenings outside, so nothing competes.

Where to begin

The plan comes from seeing how you use the space, not from a catalog. EverCrest Lighting does 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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