Choosing your outdoor lighting solutions carefully is essential to your safety and security. Proper exterior lighting, be it outside a building, an entrance, or a stairwell, is the best way to ensure safety around your property. Here are a few practical tips about various outdoor lighting systems and the best place to install them.
Entrances
There is a constant daily flow of people in and out of residential buildings. A well-lit entrance creates a more secure environment for residents, workers and visitors alike, and ensures their safe passage throughout the building. Today, most lighting systems offer a wide assortment of designs and color finishes. You can select the style that is best suited to your décor! You might want to check out the following lighting solutions:
Garage Lights
The garage entrance should have proper lighting to facilitate entry and egress, without the risk of accidents. This is a zone that is generally situated at some distance from the main entrance and therefore, has less foot traffic. So, to avoid excessive and purposeless lighting, why not install security lights with motion sensors; they are, once again, ideal and safe outdoor lighting solutions that are both practical and energy efficient.
Stairways and Pathways
Stairways and pathways (some of these are often landscaped) require sufficient lighting to ease the way toward the main entrance of a building or a residence. At nighttime, both darkness and badly lit areas can be dangerous. One solution could be to install bollards to the ground, all along the way to your entrance!
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