How To Sell A Home At Night: Curb Appeal After Dark

Landscape lighting, or nightscaping, is curb appeal after dark. When installed by trained professionals using various lighting techniques, it adds a whole new dimension to a home. Here are a few of the uses of this unique landscaper's art:

• Illuminate walkways and paths
• Accent focal points such as architecture, stonework, specimen plants, and water features
• Create a mood for outdoor patios and decks
• Create a look of grandeur to a home with up-lighting of large trees and silhouettes
• Add a warm welcome with lit doors, lamp posts and plantings
• Create an air of mystery and drama with down-lighting (moonlighting) and shadowing
• Provide security
• Accent plantings, walks
• Up-lighting
• Water features
• Dramatic moonlighting
• Mood for a deck
• Light is not only white

A home is not one-dimensional. Use these photographs as part of your listing so that prospective buyers appreciate the beauty of the home at night. Meet buyers at dusk so that when they leave the home they experience the effect.

Note: While best done by experienced lighting professionals (it is a low voltage system), it is easy to create dramatic uplighting effects with inexpensive staked lighting. Uplight large trees that frame a house to give it a grander look. You'd be surprised---it even works on modest homes.

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