Outdoor Lighting & Landscape Ideas
Discover the art and science of landscape lighting through our expertly crafted articles. At Northwest Outdoor Lighting, we're passionate about transforming spaces and enhancing experiences with the power of light. We do a deep dive into innovative lighting designs, practical outdoor living tips, path lights, and the latest trends in outdoor lighting all while trying to maintain a professional grade about how it should be done. You can easily search our topics by categories such as Lighting Design, Lights, Maintenance, and Garden & Landscapes. Whether you're looking to undertake your first project or find inspiration for your next big idea, our posts are here to guide and inspire you. Explore our collection of articles below and light up your world in ways you never imagined!
The Ultimate Guide for Marine Dock Lights
At Northwest Outdoor Lighting, our priority is your peace of mind. Proper dock lighting not only ensures safe navigation and docking but also enriches the beauty of your waterfront property.
Top 7 Favorite Plants to Light in Pacific Northwest Landscapes
The Pacific Northwest is famous for its dramatic evergreens, sculptural maples, and lush, layered gardens. With so much natural beauty surrounding Seattle, Bellevue, Mercer Island, Redmond, Kirkland, Woodinville, and the greater King County region, landscape lighting becomes less about simply illuminating a yard—and more about revealing the quiet luxury that already exists outside the home.
Maximizing outdoor lighting performance means designing with intention, selecting high-quality components, and ensuring the system operates with long-term energy efficiency and reliability.
Boost Your Home's Value with Landscape Lighting
A well-designed outdoor lighting system not only makes a home more inviting but also contributes to a sense of security and well-being for homeowners.
Direct Lighting vs. Indirect Lighting
There are a variety of lighting decisions for you to consider when selecting the correct outdoor landscape lighting intensity – in fact, as many as when selecting your indoor lighting. When lighting a piece of art or a kitchen countertop, you’re always juggling the purpose of the lighting design, as well as other factors including fixture options, fixture positions, esthetics, ambiance, mood, type of light, color of light, angle of light, reflective beam/range, reflective impact, down lighting, up lighting and many more.
At Northwest Outdoor Lighting, our clients are looking to install landscape lighting for a variety of reasons. Certainly they want to accentuate their home’s beauty, or emphasize aspects of their property that may otherwise be overlooked. But another strong reason clients seek landscape lighting is because of security. With the holidays coming, thieves are out in full force, looking for easy jobs to pull. The darkness of your property may offer thieves just such an opportunity.
Modern Landscape Lighting
With the right approach, modern landscape lighting enhances safety, highlights architectural and landscape features, and creates an inviting atmosphere for evening living.
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Throughstone Group
The Throughstone Group was a collection of collaborators, designers, and thinkers, all working on landscape design together. We worked across disciplines to create an integrated approach to design, working solid metals, water, and fire into all our projects. The highest-profile project we collaborated on together was this project in Durango, CO, where Northwest Outdoor Lighting was able to highlight the hand-crafted stonework and unique design sensibility of the other designers.
