Whether you’re looking to enhance security, create ambiance, or highlight specific features in your garden and residential outdoor areas, there are many options of landscape lighting to choose from. Our landscape lighting designer can help you choose the right outdoor lighting solutions that fits your lifestyle and aesthetic.

Here’s a list of common types of landscape lighting, each serving specific purposes:

Path Lights: These are small posts with a light built-in, placed along walkways, driveways, or paths to illuminate the ground for safety and aesthetics.

Spotlights (or Uplights): Used to highlight specific features of your landscape, such as trees, sculptures, or architectural details. They are placed on the ground, aiming upward.

Flood Lights: Similar to spotlights but with a broader beam, flood lights are used to illuminate larger areas for security or to highlight wider landscape features.

Well Lights: Also known as in-ground lights, well lights are installed below ground level to illuminate upwards, creating a dramatic effect. They are often used to light the underside of plants or exterior walls.

Step Lights: Installed into steps or alongside them, these lights ensure safety by illuminating stairways.

Deck Lights: These are specifically designed to illuminate decks and patios, often installed on or embedded into deck posts, railings, or floors.

Bollard Lights: Tall, sturdy fixtures that illuminate walkways and boundaries, providing both light and a visual barrier.

Wall Wash Lights: Used to cast an even light across a flat surface, such as a wall, highlighting its texture or color without creating harsh shadows.

Hardscape Lights (or Undercap Lights): Designed to be installed on retaining walls, under bench seating, or under the edges of hardscaping features to add subtle illumination.

Pond or Underwater Lights: Waterproof lights designed to be submerged, these are used to illuminate water features like ponds, fountains, or pools.

String Lights (or Fairy Lights): Flexible and decorative, these can be draped along fences, in trees, or around outdoor living areas to create a warm, inviting atmosphere.

Each type of lighting serves a unique purpose, from enhancing safety and security to creating an inviting outdoor ambiance. When planning your landscape lighting give us a call to connect with our in-house landscape lighting designer, serving Long Island and NYC.