The topic of today’s article will be how you can improve your outdoor living area by installing some simple outdoor flood lights. Most homes have simple one bulb wall lights on their porches patios and decks. These simple one light bulb fixtures are inadequate at best. They put out just enough light to help your find house keys when you’re coming in at night but that’s about all they are good for. I’ll bet there are times when you would like to be able to light up your whole yard. Installing additional outside lights is the perfect answer to this problem.
Most people who think of outdoor solar flood lights, think of very bright lights that are almost blinding. It’s true that this type of lighting can be this powerful but there’s no reason that they have to be. They are very versatile and can be used in many ways to improve your yard. One of the nicest things about outdoor flood lights is that they have more than one light bulb and you can aim each light bulb in the direction of your choosing. Maybe the best way to use outdoor lighting would be to install more than one of these light fixtures have them installed on different switches. Then you would have more control over which parts of your yard you light up.
One way to get more versatility out of outdoor flood lights is to mix and match the light bulbs that you install in them. It’s very easy to do this with these lights and it can be quite useful. A good example might be to use a low wattage light bulb to give you just enough light to find your keys and open the door in one of the light bulb receptacle and install a few high wattage bulbs in the other receptacles that can be aimed at other places in your yard.
When you are purchasing outside light fixtures, you should note that some will come with motion sensors and some won’t come with motion sensors. If you’ll be installing an outdoor flood light in an area like your front porch where it would be convenient if the light automatically turned on when you walked up to the door, you should probably buy an outdoor flood light with a motion sensor, often called security lights . If you are installing outdoor flood lights over your swimming pool, it probably wouldn’t be a good idea to buy the type of motion sensors as the lights would constantly be turning on and off.