How To Light Your Outdoor Entryway

Front entryways, being the portal to the soul of a house serve several important roles in the very foundation of a home. A well-illuminated front entry door welcomes visitors, provides safe passage, and creates a long-lasting first impression on the house owner and the home. 

Here we share some tips on choosing the right lighting material or fixtures to help you a step closer to finding your desired outdoor entryway lights for your home in Florida or Texas.

Benefits of Entryway Lights 

• welcomes guests and visitors to enter a home 
• helps identify who is standing outside
• prevents potential burglars from approaching your home
• expresses a home’s architecture 
• safely and easily guides people exiting and entering the house 
• creates a lasting first-impression for first-time visits 
• show and tells the character of house owner
• aesthetically beautifies a home

Outdoor Entryway Lighting Ideas

1. Light From Above Lighting

Two identical flush mounts on both sides of the entranceway door look superb, brightens up to show clearly who is in the front door. Illuminating distinctly so you can peek before opening the door, helps safely secure the people inside the house. 

2. Spotlighting Entranceways

Spotlighting is another good option for attention-grabbing lighting on your main entrance. A type of directional highlighting of certain areas, spaces, or things, such as a favorite plant or tree, gives a sense of character and creating an artistic design of main entrances. 

3. Shrubbery Lighting

Shrubbery lighting is a perfect choice to combine practicality with stylish lighting on shrubs or small plants. Lighting bushes from below using mini safety floodlights creates a welcoming feel and look before making an entry on your main entrance doors. Also, safety lights paired with built-in motion sensors prevents would-be intruders or burglars from approaching the front door. 

 

4. String Lighting Option

String lighting works best when combined with outdoor entryway lighting and several options available from colored lights to stylish designing of your own choice. 

 

5. Consider Post Lights

Uniquely design for your main entrance porch by post lighting the entrance pathway or around the main entranceway. Not only it creates a stylish design, but it also adds up enough lighting to see pathways clearly in avoiding missteps and accidental slips. 

 

6 Add Flush Ceiling Mounts

Illuminate from above with flush ceiling fixtures or pendants to provide downlighting to the person knocking on your front door. Combined with a well-lighted wall sconce from the sides, minimizes shadows and brightens spaces of front entrances.

  

Selecting the Right Outdoor Lighting Material

Outdoor entryways are susceptible to different kinds of elements which include weather conditions and creepy animals. To make sure your lighting fixtures may last longer and serve their function, select the right and proper lighting material.

• Highly Durable - strong and durable to withstand extreme weather elements such as ice and snow, high temperatures, high humidity, dust and debris, and creepy animals.  
• Weather-Resistant Materials – aluminum and brass-made materials are the most common materials that work well under any climate and conditions. They can withstand harsh weather conditions and even rust, at the same time provide a glow that brightens up brick walls and gives warmth to surrounding spaces. 
• Long-life Term Use- besides being designed for outdoor use, these lighting fixtures are quality-tested to function for long-term use. 
• Cost-effective- choose LED lighting types, the most effective modern lighting option, and big money savings on costly maintenance and high utility bills.
• Low Maintenance – select highly durable lighting devices that have low upkeep to benefit its convenience and money savings on costs.

Contact Florida’s Leader in Outdoor Entryway Lighting Systems 

Lanai Lights has been providing unique outdoor lighting products designed to enhance and brighten outdoor entryway living spaces in Sarasota, Fort Lauderdale, Cape Coral, Bradenton, Tampa, Naples, and Fort Myers, Florida, and Houston, Texas. Front outdoor entryway lighting systems serve several important functions in the very foundation of a home. 

Lanai Lights Outdoor Lighting Products

• Accent Lighting
• Dock and Deck lighting
• Landscape Lighting
• New Palm Beach RGB Model
• New Stylish Siesta RGB Model
• New South Beach RGB Model
• Original Captiva RGB Model
• Original Captiva Soft White LED Model
• Pool Cage Lighting in Florida and Texas
• Permanent Holiday Lighting

To learn and discover more about outdoor entryway lighting systems and other lighting products and services, contact Lanai Lights today at 888-829-3888 or contact us online.