Hardscaping your home’s landscape can add significant value to your property. You can put in beautiful stone walkways leading to your front door or retaining walls to enclose your garden beds. Or you can put in a beautiful patio in your backyard for entertaining. Outdoor kitchens, fireplaces, pool decks, columns, cabanas – you have a wide variety of options to help you realize the full potential of your space, which will not only enhance your enjoyment of your home but will also increase its value.
Adding accent lighting to your hardscape spaces can elevate their look and give you even more functionality. You can make your space more secure, enjoy entertaining options throughout the day, and create a more sophisticated looking space.
The hardscaping experts at Triad Associates can help you explore the options for your space so that you can create a truly stunning design. We’ll help you bring out the best features of your home and your landscaping, and we’ll make it feel like a space where you want to spend a lot of time. We use sketches, samples, and design software to help you visualize what’s possible for your space. Here are a few lighting ideas that you may want to consider for your home:
Recessed Wall Lighting
Border walls, privacy walls, and retaining walls can all serve a useful, practical purpose for segmenting and controlling your landscape, while also creating a beautiful look for your home. With the right stone, you can create a stylish and luxurious look for your home, no matter its size or style. The right stone instantly elevates the overall look of your home.
During the day, the beauty of these stone walls will be obvious. But at night, they can become dark shapes that blend into the shadows unless you are sitting or standing very close – and even then, they cannot be fully appreciated. Adding recessed lighting to the walls can shine a literal light to bring out the beauty of the stone at all times, ensuring that your home looks just as good in the night time as it does in the day. The lighting can also enhance the security of your home, ensuring that there are no dark spots where potential intruders can creep. Depending on the lighting you choose, you can also create ambient lighting for when you entertain in the evenings.
Our hardscaping professionals can design your stone walls to accommodate recessed lighting, or we can add the lighting to your existing walls. There are many styles of lighting to choose from that can perfectly accent the style of your wall and the overall design of your hardscape. We’ll help you explore the options to find the lighting that will give you the best results.
Lighting for Pools and Other Water Features
Water has a shimmery quality that naturally attracts people. At night, some of its brilliance is dulled. You can add lighting to your pool or other water features to highlight these spaces and make them beautiful focal points.
Our hardscaping specialists can add lighting to your pool that can make it seem to glow at night. You can choose from a variety of colors, or you can even choose lighting that has special effects, such as fading or blinking. The lighting will make night swimming more fun (and safe), and it will turn your pool into a beautiful centerpiece when you are entertaining at night.
We can also add lighting to water features such as fountains and jets, making them appear like glowing streams of water. The right lighting can create a dazzling effect.
Spot Lighting on Key Areas of the Hardscape and Landscape
Think of lighting as a way to accentuate key areas of your outdoor space, whether it is your hardscaping or your natural landscaping. You can shine a light specifically on that beautiful weeping willow you have in the corner of your yard where you like to sit. Or you can shine a light against that part of your retaining wall where you are growing a lovely rose bush.
Spot lighting is placed to shine directly on certain parts of your hardscaping or landscaping. You can put multiple spotlights to accentuate the best parts of your decor, while also adding overall ambient lighting to the space.
You can also get creative with spot lighting, such as by shining a light vertically from the bottom of a tree or bush, making it appear as if it is glowing.
The hardscaping professionals at Triad Associates can evaluate your space and give you recommendations for the best places to install spot lighting to make the maximum impact. We can help you visualize the options through design sketches or software. You’ll be amazed at how different your space can look with the right lighting in the right spots!
Stake Lighting Along Walls and Paths
You don’t have to build the lighting into your hardscaping. The design of your hardscaping or your natural topography may make it hard to do so, or you may be limited by your budget. In those cases, you can still get a beautiful look with stake lighting placed strategically along your stone walls and pathways.
There is a wide variety in the styles of stake lighting available, and the lighting can be subtle or dramatic. Again, our hardscaping professionals can help you visualize the options. In some cases, we can also show you samples of the lighting so you can see how it looks in real time.
Glow Lighting around Pergolas and Cabanas
Not all lighting has to be very bright, nor does it have to have a defined focal point. Diffused lighting can create a beautiful ambience. If you put it around pergolas and cabanas, it can create a glowing look. The entire space can appear as if it is radiating light from within.
You can choose a standard lighting color, like a cool white or a warm yellow, or you can choose colorful lighting, like blue, purple, or pink. What you choose should depend on your personal preferences, of course, but also the overall style and ambience you are trying to create.
Our lighting experts will choose the right lighting and install it perfectly for a seamless design. You’ll enjoy a unique entertaining space or area to relax that will provide a different experience during the day and the night.
Fire Pits and Features
Of course, not all lighting is artificial. You can also enjoy natural lighting that can be a part of your hardscaping design. Fire pits and fire features can be built right into other hardscaping elements. For example, you can have a fire pit added to your patio or your pool deck. You can add an outdoor fireplace to the edge of your patio or your outdoor kitchen. You can even add a fire pit to the middle of your pool, creating a focal point for your pool and ambient heat for night swimming.
Fire features can also include small torches that are placed along your stone walls, around your pool deck, or in other strategic locations. We’ll ensure that the features are installed for both safety and longevity.
Choosing fire features requires more careful consideration than other types of lighting. You’ll need to be sure that the features are safe and can provide the right kind of lighting for the effect you want to achieve. Our lighting professionals will help you put together the perfect design. We’ll give you counsel on the best placement of your fire features, and we’ll help you understand how to design them in conjunction with other hardscaping elements to create the best look.
Work with the Trusted Hardscaping Professionals at Triad Associates to Upgrade Your Lighting
Triad Associates has become the trusted hardscaping company in the Haverhill area thanks to our many years of commitment to delivering exceptional results and phenomenal service. We have earned our reputation as the best with our consistency and the superior quality of our workmanship.
In addition to creating beautiful hardscapes or hardscaping elements, we also help our clients elevate their decor with the right accent features, including lighting and water features. We can design your hardscape from scratch to include the perfect accent lighting right from the start, or we can upgrade your current hardscaping to add accent lighting and enhance the design.
We can bring your vision to life, or we can help you create a design that will realize the full potential of your landscape. Our designers can help you visualize what’s possible with the space with design sketches, programs, and samples. We work closely with you to ensure that we create a design that properly reflects your style while also staying within your budget.
Triad Associates is committed to ensuring that you have a successful project by working closely with you every step of the way. Call us today to meet with a hardscaping professional and start planning your perfect space.
