If you follow our blog, you know that we're "green" at heart. I, personally, don't hug a lot of trees, but I do admire them and walk out of my way to pass houses with beautiful landscaping. Usually that means a flowering fruit tree or maybe a bush pruned to look like a giraffe. Recently, though, I found something that ties together my love of nature with my interest in landscaping and even my hobb...
Looking to start a landscape lighting project but not sure where to begin? Don't worry, you aren't alone. With all the different types of outdoor lighting available, it can be hard to decide what kind of lights to put where, or even how many you need. Picking a porch light is one thing, but designing a whole back yard is something else entirely. Especially if you've opted out of hiring a professio...
Before you start investing and tearing apart your land, consider these basic pointers about how to turn your landscape into a slice of paradise. Once we master keeping a green lawn, we discover that the perfect home needs more than charming green grass. A well cut lawn just doesn't cut it. Details like hardscape and softscape work together to create a visually appealing picture. An example of hard...
Skip garden gnomes and pink flamingoes. Those are predictable, even if they were kinda cute lawn decorations when someone first thought of them.
But there is something about backyard landscaping that brings out the fairy tale in all of us. Maybe it's because we use our yards and gardens to escape, but it's one of those rare places that you can get really playful with home decor, without it seemin...
If you do a lot of entertaining outside in the evening, or even if you just have a lot of company at night, installing landscape lighting is an amazing way to enhance the appearance of your home. At night, a well lit home is a beautiful one, and the right lights in the right places can literally highlight some of the best features of your landscape. But installing traditional electric outdoor ligh...
Good landscape lighting is easily one of the best ways to beautify your outdoor spaces, but hardwiring your back yard for electricity is far from a DIY weekend project. That said, adding little light to your outdoor spaces doesn’t have to be a big ordeal. Solar powered LEDs and candle-lit garden lanterns don’t require any wiring, and while they produce a little less light, they often come in reall...
