Find All The Outdoor Lights You Need At Lamps Plus

Our extensive collection of light fixtures comes in various styles, finishes, and brands, perfect for nearly any area of your outdoor space. Whether you're looking to light your front porch for a warm, welcoming ambiance or to ensure guests can safely access every part of your yard or patio, we've got you covered with outdoor lighting fixtures made for nearly any purpose you need.

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Reasons Lighting Outdoor Spaces is Important

There are several excellent reasons to add exterior lighting around your home. Here are a few key reasons to consider as you plan your outdoor lighting design:

Improves Home Security

At night, all sorts of security issues can occur around your home. Lighting can help save a guest from a misplaced step on a dark pathway outside your home. It can also improve safety by potentially warding off intruders from seeing your home as a place to break into.

Raises Curb Appeal

A well-planned exterior lighting design can look amazing with the right decor and landscape elements. When installed in the right places, they can highlight the architectural features of your home, such as a patio, gazebo, or pathway.

Highlights Landscape Elements

Exterior lighting can also illuminate trees and shrubs around your yard, showcasing the beauty of your landscape even at night. Whether the sun is out or not, nature has a timeless appeal. Well-placed backyard solar lights can capitalize on this appeal, bringing unmatched elegance to your yard.

What Are Some Commonly Used Exterior Lighting?

Now, with a grasp of why exterior lights are so great to have, let's go over some of the styles of lights:

Wall Lights

Wall lights are fixtures that are often attached to your house's exterior walls, near doorways, garages, and other areas of your home exterior that are closest to its walls. These can provide excellent aesthetics but are often difficult to hook up and install.

Patio & Porch Lights

Patio and porch lights are extremely functional while also providing a warm atmosphere. They help to subtly light an outdoor area, providing visibility while emphasizing key aspects of your surroundings. They can be installed along the sides of your porch or patio or placed into recesses that are integrated into their structure. For the porch in particular, you can add a hanging lantern from the ceiling, creating the perfect place for an outdoor sitting area.

Step & Pathway Lights

Step lights are installed on the edge or underneath each step of an outdoor staircase. They ensure you and your guests can travel safely around your raised deck or patio, and they can also create a lovely atmosphere.

Pathway lights are installed next to paths around your property. Decorative post lights are excellent for lighting pathways, as they offer plenty of light while providing elegance to your landscape.

Flood Lights

Floodlights are made to disperse bright, intense light over a wide area, which is why they are often part of exterior lighting setups to secure homes and businesses. They are also great to place just above your garage entrance, providing plenty of light to ensure you and your guests can safely drive in and out of your driveway.

A Few Outdoor Lighting Types You Should Also Consider...

Lights come in many forms and shapes, but Lamps Plus also provides several lighting types with excellent features made for energy efficiency and smart design. Here are a few types of outdoor lighting we offer that you should consider:

Motion Sensor

While they are mostly used as security lighting, motion-sensor lights can also be used for recreational outdoor lighting. Certain models can be adjusted to stay on for longer intervals after detecting movement and to be more sensitive to movement and heat detection, too. That way, your motion is all that's necessary — no need to flip a switch or press a button.

“Dusk to Dawn”

As their name suggests, dusk-to-dawn lights can adjust their intensity throughout the evening. They contain sensors that check the amount of ambient light. When placed outdoors, this means they automatically shed light in dark areas around your home and slowly shut off as daytime approaches. These lights are highly efficient and excellent accent lighting for parts of your landscape.