Outdoor lighting enhances the beauty of your property, makes your home safer and more secure, and increases the number of pleasurable hours you spend outdoors. And it is an investment that pays off handsomely in the value it adds to your home.

Enables you to greet guests and identify visitors. Wall lanterns on each side of the door will give your home a warm, welcoming look, while assuring the safety of those who enter. Under a porch or other overhang, you can use recessed, chain-hung, or close-to-ceiling fixtures. A separate rear or side entrance can be lighted with a single wall lantern installed on the keyhole side of the door. To conserve energy, consider post and wall lanterns that use new compact fluorescent or high-intensity discharge light sources such as mercury vapor or high pressure sodium.

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You can install a wall fixture on the face of the garage. Fixtures equipped with high-pressure sodium bulbs will deliver more light per watt and last many times longer than those with incandescent bulbs. In addition, photocells are available that will turn fixtures on at dusk and off at dawn, reducing energy consumption and providing security when you're away.

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Illuminate any side of the house that would otherwise be in shadow. To conserve energy, install a motion- or heat-sensitive control that will switch on the light only if someone approaches that side of the house. An automatic timer can control a portion of your outdoor lights to turn off at a certain hour, while basic security lights can be left on through the night. Another proven safety measure is to use timers on interior lights to make your home look occupied when you're away.

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Should be illuminated to make sure family members and guests are able to move about easily and safely after dark. You can install path lights or post lanterns or attach lights to the side of the house. Low-level path lights, which spread circular patterns of light, will brighten your walkway, while highlighting nearby flower beds, shrubs, and ground cover. These close-to-the-ground lights are available in fixtures using energy-saving low-voltage current. They are simple to install and can easily be moved to reflect changes in your landscaping. Low-level path lights can also be used to define the boundaries of long driveways. Bollards, which stand 30 to 36 inches off the ground, also work well. Use shielded fixtures to avoid glare.

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Can be converted into romantic evening retreats by concealing low-voltage mini-lights under steps, railing, or benches.

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Lighting plays a big part in your landscaping plan. An overhead light near your parking area makes it easier to unload groceries at night and provides security. A series of floodlights can call attention to the landscape after dark. Lights close to the ground guide you from curb to front door.

Before you shop: Determine Your Lighting Goals. Are you most concerned with home safety, security, beauty – or all three? Don't rely on wireless solar lights for safety and security; they generate low levels of light. Low-voltage landscape lights offer a better option, and many fixtures have motion-sensor or dusk-to-dawn capabilities.

Follow these guidelines to buy fixtures that achieve your goals:

• Safety: Create safe entryways near steps, walkways, driveways or paths with downlighting. Downlighting directs light onto surfaces below the light source, making them easier to see and navigate. Recommended fixtures include: tier, walklight/path, mushroom, bollard, underwater and deck lights.
  
• Beauty: Highlight architectural features, trees or bushes with uplighting fixtures, such as floodlights, shrub uplights or underwater lights. Uplighting directs light onto the underside of surfaces above the light source to cause dramatic patterns of light and shadows.

Decks, porches, and patios can be converted into romantic evening retreats by concealing low-voltage mini-lights under steps, railing, or benches.

Don't forget to add stronger light over the barbecue or serving area. To accomplish this, install a recessed spot-light on an adjacent roof overhang or mount spread lights on a railing behind the grill.

A new home improvement trend has emerged that accentuates architectural features, textures, landscaping, groundcover, brick, stone, and pebbles at night.

Home owners can enhoy more time outside and create an elegant atmosphere for outdooor entertaining.

Professional landscape lighting uses an array of lighting techniques that not only enhance the beauty of gardens at night but foster outdoor safety and security. Outdoor lighting gently adorns your house, yard and garden areas with soft accent lighting to create warmth, atmosphere, ambiance and safety that you, your family and friends will enjoy all evening long.

Outdoor lighting increases the value and resale of your home and compliments your landscaping investment.