Home Security Lighting: 3 Ways Outdoor LED Landscape Lighting Improves Your Safety
There are many benefits to installing landscape lighting systems for your home and property. From up lighting to pathway lighting, it creates a new personality for your home exterior and yard. It also reduces the risk of tripping and falling at night. But did you know that outdoor LED landscape lighting fixtures also have an added benefit of improving your home security?
01. Landscape Lighting Systems Create An Extra Line Of Defense For Your Home.
Burglars and thieves love a dark home. It makes their job much easier to sneak around a property. When our team at Landscape Lighting Guys installs a new system for a home, as a part of our process, we take into account how our design will better the overall security lighting. We take special care to illuminate specific areas like entryways, windows, and the garage. This helps to deter potential thieves from selecting your house as their next stop. If your house is brightly lit in a dark neighborhood, it significantly decreases the likelihood of robbery.
02. Your Outdoor LED Landscape Lighting Creates A Bubble Of Lighting Around Your Entire Property.
While your home is your greatest asset, you also want to protect your entire property from trespassers. Outdoor LED landscape lighting creates a protective bubble of light around the perimeter, which further deters anyone from coming onto your property in the dead of night. If you have a separate garage, shed, or barn, it’s important to use your landscape lighting system as a form of home security lighting. Lighting up all the buildings on your property ensures visibility from dawn to dusk which will protect you from potential robbery.
03. Landscape Lighting Fixtures Offer Protection Without The Invasive Brightness Of Traditional Home Security Lighting.
When you think of “home security lighting,” you might imagine traditional motion-sensor floodlights. While floodlights do increase the overall security of your property, they are also invasive to you and your neighbors and can flick on often whenever your dog passes by. If you are looking for security lighting without the invasive brightness of floodlights, landscape lighting fixtures provide similar deterrents to thieves while maintaining the aesthetics of your home.
Most thieves wait to break in until you are away from your home. It’s essential that you use timers for your landscape lighting while you are on vacation. We highly recommend keeping your lighting on the dusk to dawn setting every night to improve your home security. At Landscape Lighting Guys, we can set up timers during your landscape lighting installation. We also make sure to check that timers work correctly during our regular maintenance visits.
Conclusion
Your landscape lighting system exists to bring aesthetic beauty to your home’s exterior during the evening and nighttime hours. But there is also a significant benefit to improving your home security lighting as well, which will keep you and your family safe from intruders. If you have questions about your current lighting, contact our team at Landscape Lighting Guys. We are happy to offer our advice and support.
