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Solar Landscape Lighting – Why So Popular?

If you are contemplating adding solar landscape lighting to your property, be assured that this is a fine way to increase the curb appeal of your home. There are several types of solar powered landscape lighting available. These include LED landscape lights, flood lights spot lights, solar powered driveway lights. To be sure there are others but these are some of the most common.

Nearly all solar landscape lighting reviews talk about the economic advantage of installing solar lighting, and why wouldn’t they? After all, once you’ve paid the acquisition cost, the only other cost is going to be bulb replacement and that’s going to be quite minimal. Most landscape lighting solar powered LEDs are rated from around 30,000 to 40,000 hours, which is far longer than any other type of light source.

We chose to install solar driveway lights because at night people didn’t notice turn in our driveway all the time, and they kept bumping into our Dogwood tree. We went out and purchased seven driveway lights and installed them.

Since we had chosen solar, installation was really easy. You just pick a spot and push them into the ground. Ever since we installed these new lights, two things have happened. One, people say they love the look of those lights at night when I drive up to the house, and two, no one bumped into that Dogwood tree since, which we, and the Dogwood tree, really appreciate.

Those solar lighting landscape driveway lights started me thinking. We have covered patio in the back yard, I started thinking about using solar string lights. I was thinking it would look really extraordinary and have LED lights, which are small and look a lot like stars, lighting up the backyard at night.

Then I thought of another place I could use low voltage lighting. The back wall of our property is is a pretty long expanse of nothing. There’s no color, no features, really nothing but a plain wall. Here’s my idea. I am going to put a series of solar powered floodlights at the base of the wall. Each one will be a different color, and the be aimed at the wall in such a way as to make different shapes splashes of color against the wall at night. I think the effect will be quite nice.

As you can see from just these two ideas I’ve had, there are endless ways to use solar lighting. And if by having solar landscape lighting I am able to increase the value of my home, so much the better.