Outdoor Living Space Lighting: Why the Back of the House Needs a Different Plan|How Should a Patio Be Lit? Here Is What Works|Patio Lighting That Gets Used: A Homeowner's Guide

Two sides, two purposes

The front of a property gets judged from the street. The patio is a place you occupy. Everything changes when you become the audience from within. Nobody cares how the patio reads from the road. What matters is whether the space still works after dark.All of which is a long way of saying the back yard is its own project. A roofline system does a great deal for the front of a house and very little for the space behind it. Two spaces, two separate sets of requirements to satisfy.

Glare is the enemy

A single glaring bulb undoes an otherwise good plan. A bare bulb at eye height blows out your night vision, so the yard turns into a black wall. The fix is to put light low, high, or behind something: down at the deck, overhead well above the eye, or hidden behind furniture.

The overhead layer

Strung lights above a patio create a ceiling where there was not one. A patio without them is a slab under an open sky. Add a canopy of light and the area has walls it did not have. Warm and dim is the setting that works, because bright overhead strings turn a dinner into a parking lot.None of this is a question of spending more, since most of what separates a good patio from a harsh one is where things point.

How the pieces stack

Think of it as three jobs, not one fixture. Overhead, underfoot, and a feature or two. Separate switching is worth asking for.

The business version

For a business with outdoor seating, this is not decoration, it is capacity. Bistro and string lighting across a patio makes the space usable and inviting after sunset. Nothing changes technically. Only the reason does.

Lighting stretches the season

Without light, the space closes when the sun does. A lit one stays open well past the point the sun stops cooperating. Mild evenings are not limited to July, they just happen at night. The lighting is what converts them https://evercrestlighting.com/about/ into usable time.

Something worth knowing about color

Outdoor light brings company in the summer. Warmer light is less interesting to most insects, which conveniently matches what looks good anyway. It helps. That is all. But it is a free consideration when choosing the setting.Worth adding: the same warm setting suits the roofline above the patio, so the space reads as one thing.

The next step

Patio lighting gets designed by somebody standing on the patio, preferably at night. EverCrest Lighting designs and installs patio and outdoor living lighting for residential and commercial properties across Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina, out of Greenville. Consultations are free. Call (864) 252-1732 or email [email protected].

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