Lighting in the outdoor areas of the house is extremely important. They are places where you want to feel comfortable at any time of the day and impress your guests with a well-lit, cozy and warm atmosphere.
When talking about lighting the exterior areas of your home, you must go beyond a couple of lamps or bulbs, you need to design a good lighting according to your space and where you can place lights without anything preventing you.
Whether in the garden, on the facade, around the pool or on the terrace, an outdoor area with adequate lighting, can improve the environment and more often, make it a pleasant space to enjoy at any time. Wall lights, spotlights and luminaires, are some of the options that you can use to maintain exterior lighting with style and good taste.
Lighting designs are very important for environments that mark the roads, enhance vegetation and mainly provide security. With the right lights and the most suitable places, the outdoor environment can be much more welcoming to receive visitors.
Thanks to technology, you can now choose from multiple options to give life and especially light, to all corners of your garden.
Let us take you on this journey to see a few interesting examples on how to place streetlights in your outside home.
35 Street Light Designs To Enhance Your Home Exterior Premises
As winter approaches, it gets dark earlier. That is why today we would like to propose to you to illuminate the exterior premises of your home with the appropriate technology, to increase the sense of security without raising consumption and observing the aesthetics.
For this, we propose to keep the houses well lit without spending much money, understanding that the need for good quality of artificial light increases when the days get shorter.
Keep in mind these aspects that we give you as tips that, in addition to helping to have more visibility, improve the setting of the facades:
SAVINGS: Many people reduce the street lights in order to save electricity. However, the market offers a wide range of energy efficient alternatives that you can use. Remember that the more illuminated the exterior of your home is, the more secure you will feel when entering or leaving your home.
QUALITY: to have a good quality in lighting, consider to install two types of luminaires on your street lights: on the one hand, in the devices put small saving lamps, such as 15 and 19 watts. These lamps generate savings of 80% to 92% energy, illuminating the same as traditional incandescent 100 watts. On the other hand, add power with perimeter lighting, installing reflectors with Halogen wherever you can. The latter may be associated with sensors that turn them on and off taking into account time, movement or ambient lighting variables.
DECORATION: both for the front of your house, as for your garden, never forget that lighting with street lights can be used as an aesthetic resource, to create a perfect environment. We recommend installing reflectors focused on green spaces: planters, trees, vines or even fountains and sculptures. These lamps are highly efficient directional lights, which offer up to 86% savings in energy consumption, compared to their incandescent equivalent of 140 watts.
COMFORT: Do not concentrate exterior street lights on a single switch. Install several circuits to have the flexibility to create various situations. Then, centralize the switches inside your home in an easily accessible place, for example: near the main access door.
Today, to think about lighting is to enter a universe of possibilities to create more welcoming environments and save money. We want to give you a sample of 35 ideas that you can use for your exterior streetlights. We are sure you will like more than one!
1. Accenting Lights In Trees
Consider enhancing the ambiance of your exterior spaces by adding lights into the trees. They will help you to create a perfect mood in any exterior space of your home, like in this one, where the trees feature illumination at the bases of all the trees. Regardless if they have leaves or not, this look works at any season of the year.
2. Create A Chain Of Luminescence On The Walkway
This look is magnificent for a special event, or for everyday purposes. This style presents lots of short lamps in the floor that light the walkway to the home’s entrance until the small arch that then features higher lamps leading to the home’s front door. The trees are also illuminated, and the tall street lights in the shape of lanterns finish the overall style.
3. Long Colored Street Lights
Your streetlights for the outside of your home do not have to be boring. Check out these lamps that look very similar to a witch’s for seeing ball. These lamps have a vetted crystal that creates the most magnificent shapes when turned into the floor. Also, their light is cold, so it does not over bright the space.
4. Function And Decoration On The Same Space
The streetlights are good for your home for many reasons. Safety is one, because it allows you to walk without falling due to obscurity; also, they keep you secure because a lit house is a safer house, which is always important. But these reasons do not have to keep you from creating an aesthetically pleasing environment. In this example, you can see how the different types of lights combine to perfection to help you achieve a home that looks good, and that is also safe.
5. Embedded Light Son Plants And Planters On A Country Home
There are many places where you can put your streetlights. You can use the obvious lights in walls, lanterns, torches and more; but you can also choose to do a radical lighting style like this one, that located most of the luminaires inside the planters or at the base of these magnificent cactuses. The shapes created by the lights are very flattering for the house and also are very original and goes perfectly with the country style of the house.
6. Get Creative With Your Street Lights
Think out of the box by using this amazing type of lamps to enlighten your exteriors. These great lamps are attractive, and create the most interesting shapes and colors when reflected on the walls or floors. You will not regret to use such original and interesting style.
7. Decorative Lighthouse Style Lamp For Street Lights
Decoration must always be an element to consider when designing your streetlights style. One style that never gets old is the vintage lighthouse lamp, a classic design that works on almost any type of design of your choosing. This style works well with modern, classic, vintage, rustic, country, and many, many other styles. You could say that it is a must for all streetlights.
8. LED Lights For The Stairways
Especially at nighttime, it comes very handy to have a well lit stairway, particularly on the exterior areas. Since the steps are normally lots, especially on big houses, consider using LED lights, which will light the spaces and will spend a fraction of the energy, saving you money.
9. Street Lights Decorations
Use the streetlights to decorate the front of your home, like in this example where the street lights are used to enhance the façade of this home. The streetlights can be used to enhance the overall style of your property.
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10. Discharge Lamps For The Home Street Lights
A traditional streetlight like this one may seem like an obvious choice for a home, but there is a good reason for that. These type of lights are tall, protects the light bulb, are strong and long lasting and are easy to install, all good features that you would like on any outdoor luminaire.
11. Shocking Drop Shaped Sculptural Luminaires For The Garden
If you have a big garden, d not miss the opportunity to create a wow factor. Extravagant outdoor lights can be used for special occasions, or if you are more daring you can use them all the time to light up your entrance, like on this example where the huge drops lights the path to a beautiful country house.
12. Electric Functioning Street Lights For Energy Savings
For spaces like fire pits, outdoor fire places, barbecues, and other outdoor living areas, you can place street lights like these ones, that are modern, stylish, inexpensive and with low electric consumption. They are ideal to place in several places to help make the mood.
13. Floating Lamps Ideal For Pools And Hot Tubs
If you have an outdoor pool and you are considering to use it at night, you will love to use street lights like these. They not only bring big amounts of light, they also work great as decoration element, making this pool look great. The fact that they reflect in the water makes the light be brighter, and they have the perfect size to enlighten without being invasive.
14. Standing LED Floor Lamps To Use On The Garden
Take the elegance and modern style of your indoor living room to your outdoor spaces with lamps like these ones. These standing floor lamps use LED lights, which make them have a cold inviting white light, and their material is especially designed to be outdoors. These lamps are ideal for polished gardens like these ones.
15. Portable Style Garden Street Lights
Lighting a garden with big trees can be challenging because can create a lot of shadow. The solution may be on placing the lamps on the ground, on top of the grass, but you cannot use any lamps, because the soil may damage them. Use rustic lamps like these portable style lamps, with a classic design, made in iron and a strong stained glass. Depending on the size they have you can place them nearer or farer from each other to create a path and to give the mood to the ambient.
16. Stone Garden LED Lights For The Floors
These lights are used embedded on the floors, and are perfect for parties. The LED system makes possible that they have a considerable size without spending lots of energy.
17. Fun Shaped Garden Sculptural Street Lights
On big gardens you can go for street lights that also add an extra touch to your home surroundings, like these lamps that have a sculptural design. Their entire body is lit which makes them more efficient.
18. Solar Powered Garden Street Lights
If you live in a place where there is tons of sunlight, you can go for sun powered big lanterns to create a path from the property’s entrance to the house’s front door. There are many different designs and styles, but most people often choose the traditional lighthouse style lanterns, that are simple yet elegant and match most of regularly use design styles.
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19. Street Lights For The Ground
These types of lamps are used to place in trees or on the ground. Their materials and placement makes them perfect to be down on the ground or between the trees’ branches. They are very discrete so you do not see must of the artifact, but reflecting greatly the luminescence on the bulb.
20. Hanging Street Lights For Outdoor Living Spaces
Choose hanging lights to decorate the outdoor living spaces, because they give a party ambiance wherever you place them, and they illuminate better in the places where you will spend time talking and hanging out. Simple designs like this can be bought for little money, or even be done by you at home.
21. Street Lights To Enhance And Point At A Tree
Streetlights can also be used to outstand some points of your garden. In this case, the homeowners wanted to highlight the impressive big and old tree by the door. For this, placing lights at the base of the tree, as well as on the crown, makes this huge tree look like a light stand itself, making this home look even more luxurious.
22. Flower Beds Street Lights
This great idea has a triple purpose: to light up your garden, to decorate your outdoors and to place your flowers. That is right, with this flower vases that are also LED gigantic lights, you will be able to enlighten your whole garden with just a few vases, and thanks to the LED technology, you will not have to worry so much about the electricity expenses, because LEDs save up to 85% of energy.
23. Warm Illumination Street Lights
Street lights does not necessarily must have bright hot light to enlighten your spaces. You can use warm light with a brownish or amber color to create a earthier atmosphere on your outdoors. Complement this with natural decoration like the rock path.
24. LEDS To Enlighten Benches With Warm Colors
Keeping the thought on warm colors, you can also use them to place under the built in furniture, like this bench for the garden area that is built within the wall. The color of the illumination is the same that you can fin on the bulbs installed on the ground.
25. Led Street Lights With Brown Amber Colors
The warm yellow and amber lights are perfect to set the mood on these cascade designed hut tubs trio. There are lights on the hut tubs, on the walls, and a couple of floor lights. The illumination still is not invasive and lets people enjoy without being flared by the luminescence.
26. Street Lights Located On The Edges Of A Ladder
The must important places to keep lighted are the paths from the entrance to the front doors: walkaways and stairways. The best is to light on the edges of the paths to make sure that people walking can wee side to side to avoid falls.
27. Pink Lamps For The Street Lights On The Pool
Just as we showed you on another example, light balls to use on pools are a trend these days. In this new example, we show to you how great they look on pink, on this infinite pool that also features light pink furniture.
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28. LED Floor Applications On The Floor
This artistic set of streetlights are used to light the floors on way inside this big structure. The design is very dramatic and artistic, and it is meant to create a wow factor.
29. Embedded Floor Lights On A Wooden Platform
For the pool area on this house, the owners chose to place LED lights on the wood platform, also know as deck. Other lights are placed on the planters, as well as inside the pool.
30. Amazingly Luxurious Landscaped Backyard With Soft Lights
Evidently not all of us have a backyard like this, but what we can have is a light style like this, that uses soft lights with a sort of a halo that make them fade away, creating a calm ambient that makes you feel relaxed.
31. Simple Solar Light Fixture For Outside Spaces
This is a very simple solar light fixture. The biggest advantage is that it is inexpensive to buy, to install, to maintain and most importantly, to afford in terms of power consumption. It charges with the sun during the day, and then at night, it uses the accumulated energy to light your outdoor spaces. These lamps are ideal to locate wherever you receive lots of sunlight.
32. Solar Lanterns With Vintage Design
Continuing with the solar lamps subject, here you can see another good design with this technology. Solar lamps are one of the most efficient sources of light where there are long hours of sun and clear skies to make the best of this source. These lamps have a traditional design made in iron, glass, and resistant plastic. They look as good as the old ones, just adapted to thee days.
33. Solar Street Lights To Place Low On The Floor
This oriental style solar lamp has a Chinese design and it is perfect to light small spaces, preferably stairways or walkways. You can find different colors, styles and sizes on theses types of lamps.
34. Solar Street Lights For Walkways, Hallways Or Stairways
This path to the pool is ornamented with candlestick lamps that use solar energy to function. These lamps are very delicate, elegant and simple, yet emit a very powerful light that helps to delimit the step very clearly, to avoid falling on the different levels and shapes of the stair steps. A few more of these lamps are strategically located on some of the planters, on the base of the bushes, and other places.
35. Street Light Fixtures On The Road To A Home’s Entrance
On this other example, similar candlestick design lights, are located along the roadway to the home’s front door. In this case the lamps do not use solar energy, but they emit a soft amber light that illuminate without glaring the view. The size is perfect to lit the floor but also a little higher, for people with sight problems. These types of lamps are inexpensive, easy to install and good quality.
Lighting up the exterior of your home plays an important role in outdoor spaces, whether it is a matter of style and safety. Do you need help to illuminate the exterior of your house and do not know where to start? Do not worry, after the keys we have proposed to you here, you should have no problems.
We know that a terrace is not only sun loungers and sun, but also vermouth sessions, festive mornings with nothing to do and parties that last until dawn.
If you have a terrace, a patio or a garden, and you want to create environments that adapt to all situations, it is not enough just to change the decoration and the tablecloths, there is a very important detail that will always help you create the perfect atmosphere: illumination.
Knowing how to modulate it to create different environments is the winning trick. Your guests will speak wonders, and you will not need to go on vacation every bridge, with going out to your balcony you will have enough.
To conclude everything you need to know to illuminate the exterior of your home, we leave you these key points without neglecting aesthetics and safety:
About passageways and stairs:
The first thing you should illuminate in outdoor environments, regardless of whether it is a garden or terrace are the passageways and conflict points such as the stairs. The luminaires, the place and the bulbs must be considered when lighting the exterior.
For security reasons, these areas must have the correct lighting; this is achieved with special luminaires for that space and with bulbs of sufficient intensity to enjoy good visibility. To illuminate stairs, recessed spotlights are the best option.
In the access roads, the ideal are the beacons distributed all the way, you can choose to install lights with motion sensor.
About ambiance lights:
When starting with exterior lighting, you must be sure to correctly distribute the lights and adapt them to the needs of each environment. Whether rest areas, dining room. Ideally, install well-distributed points of light, but above all, it is necessary to orient them to areas that need it.
Without forgetting that the outdoor spaces are open, it is advisable to install versatile lights, capable of adapting to every corner. You can install lanterns, candles, and lights without wires that are recharged with sunlight.
About style and materials:
The style of the luminaires is an important point to consider illuminating the exterior; the ideal is that there is a difference between decoration and furniture. Without leaving the material of the luminaires behind, the wood is elegant and with the ideal maintenance can withstand the atmospheric conditions.
On the other hand, placing luminaires made of synthetic materials such as plastic or resin are resistant and durable, offering a more modern and elegant air.
Now you are ready to decorate your exterior with streetlights, have fun and enjoy!