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Maybe you're tired of driving up to your housing in the dark, feeling like you live in a miniature haunted mansion. Perhaps you're designing a new house with your architect and you realize the benefits of having a nice set of driveway lights to accent your home. There are great benefits to installing driveway lighting such as giving an elegant and refined feel to you home, better safety and security from intruders, and showcasing your landscaping even after dark.

Overall Lighting Placement

What should you first consider in picking out lights then? First would be placement of the lights. What kind of arrangement or pattern do you want along the driveway? You can choose from very symmetrical pattern, to a more staggered or skewed one.

Positioning Along The Driveway

Now drill down to think about how you'd like to position the lights - maybe you want them right on the edge of the driveway, burrowed into the concrete - or right past the edge and into the lawn. There are of course advantages and disadvantages to both in difficulty to install them, and ease of maintenance, so really weigh the options here.

Light Height And Lights Per Post

Next, evaluate how high you'd like the driveway lighting to be. For larger driveways you may want taller and brighter lights say 3-4 feet tall, for smaller driveways shorter ones at 1-3 feet tall. It all depends on your preference and what you'd like to showcase and what kind of atmosphere you'd like to create. Also how many lantern do you want on each post, and how do you want those arranged? Typically people have anywhere between one and four lanterns installed per lighting post.

Thinking Green

It's always good to think "green" about installing your driveway lights as well - in terms of the green out of your pocket that you could save, and in terms of being eco-friendly. The more lights you add, the more electricity you'll use. There are solar and low powered options that you should definitely consider. Now choose the bulb-type you want to install in your lighting posts. Again brighter bulbs take more electricity and will burn out faster, so choose carefully in being mindful of the costs with this. If you really want to be secure and have the lights on all night, you really do want to go with lower-powered bulbs.

Hopefully this article has given you some ideas to consider in designing and setting up a great driveway lighting scheme for your home.

John Potemkin is a writer and enthusiast of many subjects - including health, travel, work and home improvement. For more information about driveway lighting go to http://drivewaylightingsite.com/

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