Curb appeal has become the jargon in real estate circle and becomes a high priority when someone is making an effort to sell their home. However, curb appeal is not about finding the potential buyer to make an offer on your house.
It is a well-known fact that a well-illuminated dockyard or yard act as a deterrent to intruders looking for an easy target. In this respect, the main motive is to make your home less attractive at least to intruders and burglars. Burglars consider those houses which are dimly lit entries for easiest entry.
Dimly lit entries obstruct sightlines making it difficult for the passer-by to see or notice anything is awry. Hence in order to keep your home safe from burglary, you are required to have a well-illuminated dockyard and yard so that it does not become the easiest way to enter your house.
Security
However it is not possible to make your home completely burglar-proof, it is possible to take steps so to make your home less appealing target. It has been seen that lighting is always considered as a significant part of an overall security plan for your property. This can be explained better with the help of an example such as lights with motion detectors can help deter unsavory character and illuminate anyone trying to peep through your door and window.
It is very important to position your light properly so that the darker areas of your yard are also well illuminated. This will help to monitor your property even from inside your house. Well, illuminated area ties back with curb appeal because making your house less appealing to burglars by illuminating your house. For this LED landscape lighting is appropriate.
Safety
The main things that everyone will are to keep their home safe from any kind of suspicious movement and burglars. Landscape lighting helps in enhancing your home security efforts, it also increases safety. It is very important to have strong outdoor landscape lighting so that you can increase the safety of your house.
Even accidents also take place due to dim illumination. Another best way to keep your house safe and also you can fool the intruders or burglars by installing motion-detecting lights. This can provide much-needed light when your guest walks up the driveway or get out of the care. This not only helps in creating a perfect ambiance but also helps in saving the energy hence reducing the operational cost of illuminating a large area. Even your guest will feel safer walking in well-lit areas and will also find your house more appealing if is not drunk into darkness and they are also not worried about tipping as they make their way to your door. It is not difficult to install landscape lighting fixtures in the exterior of your house.
There are several ways to increase curb appeal with the help of landscape lighting
- You can use up lights to highlight architectural features
- Another technique that can be used by you to increase curb appeal is to position lights to silhouette specific landscaping features at night.
- You can also create areas of light and shadows to increase visual interest
