Increase Your Home’s Curb Appeal with Modern Outdoor Lighting

Installing modern outdoor lighting on your landscape will increase your curb appeal, increasing the overall value of your home while making it safer. Landscape lighting does not have to be expensive or ornate to create a dramatic effect. A few simple and inexpensive steps with basic landscape lighting fixtures should start you off on the right foot.

1. Line either sides of your sidewalk with solar lamps. The easiest kinds of these lamps are the ones that will require you to press a spike into the ground. They are also the most environmentally-efficient because they do not require any wiring or electric maintenance costs. Such use of lighting will give instant appeal during daylight hours (as they usually come with attractive, weather-proof shades) as well as safety during nighttime when visibility is low.

2. Install a targeted lamp to face individual groupings, foliage arrangements and trees. Give these areas a rustic appeal with a lamp that features natural materials (faux ones should do) like the Java 30″/34″ Table Lamp with 2″/3″ in Walnut/Antique Honey Wicker Shade by Patio Living Concepts.

3. Put similar lamps at the base of your widows in a planter box, for instance. Better yet, get yourself a pot that lights up like the 120 Volt Fluorescent GardenGlo Planter by Patio Living Concepts. A light just outside your window will allow you to see through it at night and deter others from seeing in because of the glare that it causes. This should do a good job of keeping you safer. During the day, the landscape lights serve as decorative pieces and offer visual appeal.

4. To highlight the entrance of your home, install wall lights on either side of your main door. One of the hottest picks today is mid-century style wall lanterns that will give an interesting mix into you modern home. The Mesa Small Wall Lantern by Kenroy Home would give you ample lighting so you can comfortably read on your patio come nighttime.

5. Install solar-powered landscape lamp near your mailbox or address market near the curb. This will help add beauty to the entrance of your property and should get potential buyers to stop their cars and visit the house. This will also identify your address and illuminate your mailbox come sundown.

So are you now ready to make your home more appealing to its potential buyers? Get started with these ideas now!