Elevating Evening Gatherings with Outdoor Lighting

The outdoor seasons are upon us. Are you ready to remember this one as one of the best? Enjoying backyard barbeques and pool parties is a great way to make the most of spring and summer, but an element is often missing. 

When evening comes, an outdoor lighting system can transform your outdoor areas into an oasis after dark. Instead of bringing the party indoors, push a button and create an enchanting retreat.

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Lighting that Blends into Your Environment

There was a time when outdoor lighting consisted of white lights that illuminated the entryway and outdoor seating area. It may have highlighted some plants and architectural features, but it did nothing to elevate the atmosphere. 

Today, outdoor lighting is much different. 

At Whitaker Technologies, we partner with Coastal Source, a leader in outdoor audio and lighting. With the help of their brass fixtures and advanced low-voltage LED bulbs, our lighting design and automation experts create inspired settings that only the darkness reveals. 

This lighting aligns with nature, a soft, golden glow that touches your landscape, water features, and hardscapes with natural light resembling the sun. Because of this, your backyard comes alive at night, breathtaking in its beauty, inspired by nature. 

The possibilities are endless, from niche and well lights illuminating your outdoor areas from an unseen source to EVO, lighting that enhances your outdoor areas with its sleek and eye-catching design. Undercap lights gently illuminate stairs and posts, providing a safe passage without overcompensation.

Illuminating Your Landscape

Coastal Source’s FLEX Niche lighting series delivers flexible, powerful, micro-size light that blends into the landscape while providing the uplighting that draws the eye to favored landscape and architectural features. 

Classic Hat pathway lights offer two distinct design elements that softly illuminate walkways and stairs. 

Partying by the Pool

Underwater blue and green LED lights can transform your pool and water features, casting an otherworldly glow. Add solid brass Tiki torches along the pool or the edge of the property, and you’ve created an evening reminiscent of a vacation playland.

Alfresco Dining on the Patio 

Outdoor dining areas incorporate string lights, wall sconces, and pendulums, providing task and soft, warm ambient lighting. With today’s outdoor lighting, you’re only limited by your imagination.

Outdoor Living Defined

For many people, outdoor living has become a way of life. In these homes, you’ll find dinners enjoyed on the patio as much, if not more, than in the dining room. Outdoor entertainment brings an immersive blanket of high-fidelity audio, and movie nights are enjoyed on the latest outdoor 4K UHD TVs.

Lighting can help separate these areas, transitioning one into the other. It’s also good to remember that there can be too much of a good thing. Outdoor lighting should be designed so that the fewest lights provide the most significant impact. Instead of a flood of lights leaving a washed-out effect, let your guests believe it’s the moonlight filtering through the trees. Only we need to know it’s hanging tree lights. 

At Whitaker Technologies, we elevate lifestyles through the power of today’s technology. To learn more about outdoor lighting or to schedule a complimentary consultation, contact Whitaker Technologies today.