Exterior home lighting

[Chersch7406]

I’m looking around at lighting for the front of our home. What do you all do to light up the front of your home? I obviously have the porch light and garage lights but I feel like there could be more done to illuminate the house. Do you all use lights with power packs, solar, etc..just looking for ideas.

 

[SLOWBRA]

Good post. I have a switched outlet ready for outdoor lighting and have just started researching lights myself.


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[IA Shelby]

We installed Red Dot outdoor landscape lighting probably 15 years ago. It is hardwired and works great. It is heavy duty and has held up well over the years. We live in a northern climate with harsh winters so I have been impressed with the durability. We got it at Home Depot.

 

[TAF]

I had 4” wafer thin LEDs @4000K temperature, 765lumens installed in the soffits around my house between windows. 15 on the main house & 3 centered on the doors of the detached 3 car garage. They use almost 0 watts, will last 50 years and make the property look GREAT. DON’T make the mistake of aiming lights AT your house. “Wash” your house with light from the top down.

Ultra Thin 4" LED Wafer Downlight by Lithonia Lighting at Lumens.com

 

[PhoenixM3]

I had 4” wafer thin LEDs @3000 lumens installed in the soffits around my house between windows. 15 on the main house & 3 centered on the doors of the detached 3 car garage. They use almost 0 watts, will last 50 years and make the property look GREAT. DON,T make the mistake of aiming lights AT your house. “Wash” your house with light from the top down.

Ultra Thin 4" LED Wafer Downlight by Lithonia Lighting at Lumens.com

We did the same, but used 5” cans when our house was being built. I bought a grunch of pathway lights from Volt and will also include some tree mounted down lights.

 

[Brillo58]

A well designed landscape lighting install will always look better than a house flooded with soffit lights... much classier and more natural. Check out Kichler Lighting ... I am a distributor of their line. In addition to standard home lighting they have a complete line of landscape lighting... middle of the road, not super high end but good quality for the price. Plenty of LED options as well. If your project is not too large you can usually get by with one strategically placed transformer for the whole project. Typically the transformer plugs into an outdoor receptacle. If you can have the receptacle controlled by a switch, this is ideal.... because then you can use a WiFi switch in place of a timer or photocell. Put the switch in, download the app, program your WiFi switch and enjoy. Another option is to put the transformer in the basement or garage and run the low voltage cable to the outside from there...sometimes an easier install. If I can help you further, let me know. I own an electrical distributor so I’m up to date on all things electrical.

 

[Chersch7406]

I appreciate all the feed back so far, I’ve got a lot of options as it’s a new build with no landscaping yet.

 

[Brillo58]

If your house is a new build, have your electrician put all of your exterior receptacles on a switch, or multiple switches if so desired. As I mentioned this allows for WiFi switches for programmability....and Xmas lights if so desired....

 

[TAF]

A well designed landscape lighting install will always look better than a house flooded with soffit lights... much classier and more natural. .

Yeah...this just looks like $H!T...

 

[coposrv]

A well designed landscape lighting install will always look better than a house flooded with soffit lights... much classier and more natural. Check out Kichler Lighting ... I am a distributor of their line. In addition to standard home lighting they have a complete line of landscape lighting... middle of the road, not super high end but good quality for the price. Plenty of LED options as well. If your project is not too large you can usually get by with one strategically placed transformer for the whole project. Typically the transformer plugs into an outdoor receptacle. If you can have the receptacle controlled by a switch, this is ideal.... because then you can use a WiFi switch in place of a timer or photocell. Put the switch in, download the app, program your WiFi switch and enjoy. Another option is to put the transformer in the basement or garage and run the low voltage cable to the outside from there...sometimes an easier install. If I can help you further, let me know. I own an electrical distributor so I’m up to date on all things electrical.

A central located transformer sucks. It’s great in theory but then running sometimes up to number 8 is ****ing expensive and trading one problem for another. Line voltage exterior lights are far better than a shit load of transformers. 120 and be done.


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[coposrv]

Yeah...this just looks like $H!T...


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Love it. Some up lighting in the flower beds and soffit lites. Nice work.


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[Chersch7406]

Looks great @TAF

 

[Junior00]

Next on my list!

 

[coposrv]

This is the next project.


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