Lighting up your lawn is not just as simple as it looks. Well, if your objective is to flood the whole yard with light and just drown everything in one
big flash, then by all means just prop a big floodlight in the middle of your lawn and just let it shine.
Of course this time, you would be able to see everything
until the corners of your compound, but you wouldn't be able to appreciate the "curves" and enhance the design of your landscaper. Your lawn would look more of a
stadium or a prison because of the high intensity light that falls on every nook of your territory.
If you want to justify the love that your landscaper has
dedicated to it, then you might start envisioning it to look like more of a park. Accenting areas with subdued lighting is the way.
The placement of the lights is
important. Placing them on the broad side of the landscape curve will drown out the little spaces that it converges with the rest of the land design. A subdued effect
is best achieved with the positioning of light behind a bend and slightly hidden from view.
A glowing effect is best achieved by placing fixtures in shrubs and
bushes and focusing the light against a wall for an added accent. This gives an illusion of blending the bigger plants and shrubs with the grass that surrounds them,
as well as with the wall that confines them.
The size of the light aperture also has a great impact on the landscape lighting effect. Using a more focused and
thinner aperture for lighting fixtures would give an idea of isolated area for added effect. A broader aperture would tend to generalize an area, perhaps a major land
curve in your landscape design.
Finally, the color of the light is essential in giving the proper theme and enhancement of the landscape design. Usually, the
most common color used is a stint of yellow and white. This is the safest color but is rather common already. A more radical choice is the use of blue or red,
depending in the desired effect that you would want, may it be fiery red, or icy blue.
Whatever the blend of techniques you use, your artistic side of
experimenting with different aspects will be your own creation, a quixotic blend of lighting and nature.
