Ideas for Low Voltage Spotlights on Houses

Location Visibility

• Location visibility is an important part of landscaping that is designed to be enjoyed after sunset. Look around your house for places that could use some direct, soft illumination. Basketball courts, for example, are ideal locations for low-voltage spotlights. If you have a grill or outside seating, a spotlight can allow people to see what they are doing while the low voltage will keep the lights from blinding anyone.

Direction

• Spotlights are also very useful for showing guests where to go. If you do not have a place to put underlighting or lamps, consider hanging low-voltage spotlights on your house and aiming them at steps and walkways. Their light will help nighttime guests avoid accidents and navigate corners as well as lead them from one area of your landscape to another area.

Features

• Spotlights are traditionally useful for highlighting house features, and low-voltage versions are especially useful to draw attention to areas about which you are proud. A spotlight on a water feature or tree can work very well. A light placed on a particular garden feature or stone also can work well. Several lights around a large tree or bush can create an ideal effect.

Silhouette

• Some of the best lights do not illuminate but set apart. If you put a low-voltage spotlight behind a main feature, for example, the light will cast the feature as a silhouette, a bold effect you can use to show a different side of your landscape at night. The light's low-voltage aspect also ensures that it will not blind anyone.