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Landcsape lighting is a great way to enhance the time, money, and energy you've put in to your home and the surrounding landscape. If you're ready to improve your curb appeal, make the area around your house more safe and comfortable, and increase your home value it might be time to contact a low voltage lighting expert or electrician.

Low voltage lighting around your deck, pool, and landscaping can highlight all these features during the evening for very little effort and usually very little money. Here are some of the types of lighting features you can use around your house -- and if you have additional questions, you can consult with your lighting design professional:

Up Lights
Up lights are the lights placed on or near the ground to illuminate areas above. These lights are key to any landscape lighting design. They can spot trees, bushes, plants, scultures, or fountains around your house and landscaping with low voltage lights. These lights not only cast light, they also create shadows that can be used for dramatic effect. Too much light or lights placed in the wrong spot can ruin the shadow effect.

Down Lights
Down lights are the lights suspended from above, to spotlight a particular area or provide more light to a general area. These lights can be attached to the house, to trees, to architectural pieces in the yard, and more. Too much overhead light, or obvious glare from down lights, can ruin the effect of the up light or general ambient light in the space. So down lights should be used sparingly or with dimmers to reduce any problems. Down lights can be used effectively to shine down on a patio table, down on flowers or plants, on fountains and other architectural features in the landscaping.

Path Lights
Whever you've got a walkway or stairs, you'll need to install path lights. They're also great at illuminating the surface material for aesthetic purposes. Path lights are also perfect for balancing all the lighting pointed up into the air. These lights can be hidden in the plants or features. They can also be embedded in the surface of your path or walkway or in the stair or step for more safety.

These are the major components of low voltage landscape lighting. The design is the most important stage, so plan carefully before making everything permanent. Because landscaping is natural on nonlinear, it's important to mix up the location of the lights - vary the positioning to avoid a uniform look. Also, lighting can be hidden carefully for a more natural look, you can get lights that are camouflaged to look like rocks or other landscape features, and the lights can be prominently featured (so you can choose from a variety of metals, finishes, colors, and styles to match you home and landscaping.)

When you want to talk to a landscape lighting electrician, post your project with Construction Deal. We'll submit your request, for free, to our network of electrical professionals and they'll contact you about the job. This will save you plenty of time. And having multiple bids from several electricians will also save you plenty of money!