LED Outdoor Lighting Basics

LED outdoor lighting is the smart choice for wall sconces, post lights, pendants and ceiling fixtures, and landscape lighting - it's energy efficient and long-lasting. The right fixtures can boost your curb appeal and increase your enjoyment of your home.

Ideal for a huge range of environments, LED lights designed for outdoor use can illuminate your space, create just the right ambiance, and even provide security overnight. LED bulbs work when an electrical current moves through a microchip. The microchip illuminates small, light-emitting diodes. Contrary to popular belief, LED lights do produce heat - but the bulbs are equipped with heat sinks, which absorb the vast majority of it.

Build.com Fact: LED lights usually don't burn out like regular light bulbs do. Instead, they slowly dim over time. An LED bulb's "lifetime," refers to a prediction of when the bulb's light output decreases by 30 percent. That means LED bulbs usually still work after their "lifetime" has passed - they'll just be a softer light than they used to be.

Where Can You Use Outdoor LED Lighting?

Outdoor LED lighting is available for the exterior of your home, porches and patios, paths and walkways, and a number of other applications. You can choose between:

• Wall sconces

• Post lights

• Landscape lighting

• Pendant lights

• Ceiling fixtures

LED Wall Sconces

LED wall sconces are designed to illuminate doorways and front porches. They're available in a wide range of styles, including contemporary, traditional, transitional, and colonial, to match your home's architecture. You can also choose from a wide range of finishes to create the perfect look.

LED Post Lights

LED post lights are a beautiful addition along pathways, in gardens, or in front of your home. Designed to cast clear, bright lighting in all directions, post lights come in a variety of styles and finishes, including stately blacks, burnished bronze tones that add elegance, and modern silver tones.

LED Landscape Lighting

LED landscape lighting is made to highlight your home's best outdoor features and provide an extra measure of security. Choose an accent light with a 35-degree flood beam to highlight a water feature or flag display, or pick an LED landscape light with a 60-degree flood beam with motion sensors to keep ingress and egress points safer. Pick step lights to keep stairs illuminated or choose path and spread lights to highlight walkways after the sun goes down.

LED Pendant Lights

LED pendant lighting is ideal for outdoor gathering spaces. Create a beautiful ambiance on your porch or patio with a chandelier-style pendant light or ultra-modern LED pendant light in a finish that matches your door hardware and your home's architectural style.

LED Ceiling Fixtures

LED ceiling fixtures are specifically designed for covered spaces, and they're available in a wide range of styles ranging from fun and whimsical to no-frills function. You can use them to create ambient lighting or as specific task lighting, and many are also adjustable.

Benefits of LED Lighting

Outdoor LED lights have plenty of advantages, even helping you produce a smaller carbon footprint and providing better visibility than traditional outdoor lighting. LED bulbs are the most energy efficient lighting options available. They consume a fraction of the power that incandescent, halogen, fluorescent and compact fluorescent, and HID bulbs do.

You can choose LED outdoor lighting that is:

ADA compliant
Battery operated
Dark sky compliant
ENERGY STAR® certified
Equipped with a photocell
Equipped with motion sensors
Solar powered
Title 24 compliant

Tips for Choosing LED Outdoor Lighting

When you're choosing LED outdoor lighting, be purpose-driven. Ambient lighting and security lights require very different types of fixtures, and your home's style and personal preferences will guide you toward the right choices. Keep these tips in mind when you're choosing LED outdoor lighting for your space:

Use subtle lights for entertaining - you and your guests want to be able to enjoy the evening without feeling like you're sitting in broad daylight.
Choose the right UL rating for your application. For example, lights that mount on uncovered outdoor walls should be UL wet-rated.
Choose flood beams with wide ranges if security is your main purpose.
Size front porch ceiling lights by measuring the width of your door frame and multiplying it by 0.33 - you'll get a light that's just the right width to illuminate your door when you hang it at least 6 inches above the top of the door.

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