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Wow there are sometimes you really discover that you didn’t know what you didn’t know, if you know what I mean? I just got this awesome book for my birthday – The Landscape Lighting Guide – and like wow – its big and heavy, but its like the bible for Landscape Lighting – even the professionals use it!

Well I’m certainly not a professional – but I do really enjoy renovation and decorating that I’ve done to several homes I’ve owned. Gardening has always been a bit of a dark art to me. Something that other people can succeed with – but for me its always been more hit than miss.

But outdoor landscape lighting is a lot more like renovating – I like hard landscaping and such like – I like plants too – its just they don’t like me!  So for now I’m going to focus on changing up my new townhouse’s outdoor landscaping – starting with the landscaping.

Need some landscape lighting tips for this drive!

Landscaping Lighting Ideas for the Driveway 

We are the backmost unit of five – so we are at the end of a long driveway which is also up a hill. There isn’t any space to turn around at the top so we have to back out. No problem during the day-  but at night its a bit hard because the drive is poorly lit.

Now we can’ t really wire lights in – not allowed to dig up the shared drive! But you can apparently get decently bright lights that run on either solar or battery power. Even the battery powered lights would be OK, particularly if they are motion activated, as we can just use rechargeables – and the lights don’t need to be on all night!

Lighting Around the BBQ Area 

We have a nice outdoor seating area which is directly off our lounge – so I’d like to do a mix of lighting here. I need something that will let me check. the steaks on the BBQ aren’t burnt – but I’d also like some mood lighting which would look cool from the lounge.

Security Outdoor Lighting 

Its always handy having some motion-activated lighting around both the front door – so I can find my keys, and also out the side entrance for when we need to go outside to put out the rubbish or the recycling – its a real pain having to find a spare hand to turn on  light!