Hello everyone Upcoming personal lighting project. (I would like to accomplish this myself.) Photos attached with approximate placement of lighting from my own ideas. Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks for your help!
Hi, James. Fellow landscape lighting enthusiast here. I diagrammed your photos to suggest some tweaks for your consideration. First, I wasn't sure if you intended to have all of the spotlights on on your home's facade to be the same beam spread but I would definitely recommend that the one on your box bay window be wider than the two flanking that window. I find that when a house has stacked and/or offset gables, it can be tricky to determine how to light certain parts. Of course you could leave that areas above the main part of your house dark. But if you wanted to get some more light up there, consider uplighting that tree (japanese maple?) that's in front of your porch railing. The lighting won't be as pronounced on the gables above but I personally like the way some homes look when there are areas that force our brains to fill in the blanks, so to speak. On the curved all near the pool, I encourage you to have fun thinking outside of the box. For instance, instead of having spotlights or floodlights all with the same beam spread, consider alternating between large and small widths (or even alternating between floodlights and spotlights) there. You could also stick with your plan of having path lights between the spotlights so that you're essentially alternating between light projected on the wall and light illuminating the ground below. Btw, if that area or others on your property are still under construction, now is an ideal time to lay down wiring and conduit to make it easier to facilitate installation of either your current lighting plan or future lighting. HTH
I think attractive garage doors deserve to be illuminated when possible. It might require some creativity to route and hide the wires for puck lights above those doors but the effect can be truly impressive. Also, if for some reason you aren't in love with your wall sconces there, consider swapping them out for some up/down lights to illuminate those wall sections of your garage. HTH
