Low Voltage Outdoor Lighting: Brightening Your Ocala, Florida Landscape
Outdoor lighting offers energy-efficient, versatile, and a safe lighting option that enhances the beauty, safety, and functionality of your outdoor spaces. Whether you're illuminating a backyard oasis, highlighting your home’s architecture, or creating a welcoming ambiance for evening gatherings, outdoor lighting is an ideal choice to create the perfect ambience for your home.
Why Invest in Outdoor Lighting?
Energy Efficiency: With Ocala’s year-round warm weather and long evenings, low voltage LED lights reduce energy costs while providing ample illumination for outdoor activities.
Safety: The low voltage system minimizes the risk of electrical shock, which is especially important in Florida’s humid and rainy climate, where moisture is a constant factor.
Versatility: From highlighting live oaks and palm trees to illuminating pathways or pool areas, outdoor lighting always enhances your home.
Durability: Quality low voltage systems are designed to withstand Florida’s intense sun, heavy rains, and occasional storms, ensuring long-lasting performance.
We Design a Lighting Plan That Will Create Balance
Ocala’s landscapes, from sprawling horse farms to cozy yards, benefit from strategic lighting. Here are some popular ways we recommend outdoor lights:
Pathway Lighting: Lighting up walkways not only adds a safety benefit to your property but often these lights shine down and create a balance with other lighting on your home and add charm to stone or paver walkways.
Accent Lighting: Highlight key elements on your property, like Magnolias or Sylvesters, with spotlights. This creates dramatic effects and showcases your landscaping.
Patio Lighting: Lights can be installed on decks, railings, columns/seating walls and/or steps to create a warm ambiance for outdoor dining or entertaining spaces.
Water Feature Lighting: Ocala’s ponds, fountains, or pools will sparkle at night with submersible or surrounding low voltage lights, creating a stunning focal point.
Tailoring Your Lighting Layout
When selecting a low voltage lighting system for your Ocala home, it’s best to hire a professional company with lights specifically designed for outdoors. While you can buy some solar lights on Amazon for a fraction of the cost, you will be replacing this regularly because they just don’t last. We use LED lights that are water safe installed on a transformer with a timer. We can help you come up with the perfect balance during your design consultation as we go over things like:
Layers: Combine ambient, task, and accent lighting for a balanced look. For example, we’ll recommend path lights for a different angle to create balance, spotlights to highlight your trees, and wall lights to accent your home. It’s fun when clients add string lights for a cozy patio vibe giving their landscaping the finishing touch.
Avoid Overlighting: Use subtle lighting to enhance your landscape without overpowering it.
Consider Local Wildlife: Ocala is known for its natural beauty and wildlife, including turtles and owls. Use warm-toned LEDs (2700K-3000K) to minimize disruption to nocturnal animals.
Highlight Architectural Features: Showcase your home’s unique features, like stucco walls or Spanish-style arches, with well-placed uplights or wall washers.
Maintenance Tips for Long-Lasting Lighting
To keep your low voltage lighting system shining:
Clean Fixtures Regularly: Remove dirt, pollen, and debris from lenses to maintain brightness.
Check Wiring: Inspect connections for corrosion, especially after heavy rains. We install quality lighting designed for the outdoors but just like your car, we recommend inspecting your lighting at least once a year to make sure its in good condition for optimal performance and safety.
Trim Vegetation: Ocala’s fast-growing plants, like azaleas or drift roses, can block lights. Keep them trimmed for clear illumination.
Why Work with Bella Design Landscapes?
Hiring us ensures your low voltage lighting is installed with the proper transformer equipped to handle the voltage. We only use quality fixtures suited for Florida’s weather and design a layout that complements your property’s style. Low voltage outdoor lighting is a game-changer for Ocala homeowners looking to enhance their home and landscaping. With energy efficiency lights outdoor lighting is perfect for creating inviting, functional, and beautiful outdoor spaces in the Horse Capital of the World that will transform your outdoor space. When hiring Bella Design Landscapes, you’re getting professional, quality fixtures, a thoughtful design, and transforming your property into a nighttime masterpiece. Ready to light up your Ocala home? Call us to get started!
