Outdoor spaces can look very different when the clocks change, and the sun starts to set earlier in the evening. For example, gardens lose their color, trees become bare, and the features of your property that you are used to seeing can fade into the darkness well before the evening is over.
Outdoor lighting with Moon Glow Lightscapes isn’t just for the warmer months. With thoughtfully placed landscape lighting and a professionally installed holiday display, your home or business can look inviting all year long.
Make the Most of Your Landscape Lighting This Winter
One of the best things about a professionally designed outdoor lighting system is that it doesn’t need to be packaged away when summer ends. In fact, winter offers a different perspective on your landscape, which makes it an ideal time to appreciate the details that might not be as noticeable for the rest of the year.
Moon Glow Lightscapes offers a variety of lighting techniques that are designed to bring out the best in your property’s architecture, gardens, trees, and walkways. Each approach creates its own effect, and the right combination can give your property a completely different look after dark.
Uplighting for Trees, Shrubs, and Architectural Features
Uplighting directs light upward from ground-level fixtures to highlight the shape and textures of trees, shrubs, and architectural features. During the winter months, when deciduous trees have lost their leaves, uplighting can draw attention to their branches and distinctive silhouettes, and evergreen trees that are snow-covered can also make striking focal points when they are illuminated.
Moonlighting for a Natural Evening Glow
Moonlighting creates a soft, relaxed effect by casting light downward from a fixture that is placed higher up in a place such as a tree. The lighting creates shadows below as it filters through the branches. The technique of moonlighting is especially appealing in the winter because the bare tree branches create more interesting patterns, and the light adds a subtle glow to the snow and ground beneath.
Path and Step Lighting for Darker Evenings
In the winter months, you need to navigate driveways, walkways, and steps in the dark more often than in the warmer months, which offer more daylight hours. Added path and step lighting can help guide you to your entrance. Good visibility is extra important when there is snow and ice, as it helps to make changes in elevation and tripping or slipping hazards easier to see.
Downlighting for Entrances and Walkways
Downlighting works to direct lighting from up high toward the ground or a specific item. It is a practical option that is used around entrances, along fences, and near walkways, and creates a welcoming, defined appearance.
Light Washing for Walls, Fences, and Hedges
The lighting technique of lightwashing is used to create a soft glow across a flat surface by placing low-voltage light fixtures near the base of a wall, fence, or hedge. In the winter, when gardens are no longer colorful, this option helps to make the exterior of your home stand out.
Crosslighting and Silhouetting
Crosslighting uses two fixtures aimed toward the same thing in your landscape to help bring out its textures. It’s often used to light up a group of shrubs, small gardens, or trees, while silhouetting takes a different approach by lighting behind a tree or shrub so that the plant appears dark against the brighter surface. The contrast really catches the eye.
Moon Glow combines these techniques with LED and low-voltage outdoor lighting to create designs that are suited to each property’s features and the homeowner’s preferences. The aim is to make the landscape look beautiful after dark while also ensuring functionality, safety, and the surrounding environment.
Bring Some Holiday Spirit to Your Property
Landscape lighting provides a beautiful foundation throughout the winter, and holiday lighting adds another layer of personality to your home or business. A carefully planned display can highlight the architecture of your home, frame its roofline, and bring trees and other outdoor features to life. Whether you prefer a classic, understated look or something with more festive colour, Moon Glow Lightscapes offers custom holiday lighting designed around your property and your style.
Rooflines, Peaks and Eaves
Clean lines of lights along the roofline are one of the most common holiday lighting styles. Lights can be fitted along the roof’s edges and peaks to make the home look polished and coordinated. Moon Glow uses custom-cut light strings, measured and sized to the correct length for your property, which leads to a neat installation without the need to hide excess lights or wires.
Wrapped Trees and Illuminated Branches
Trees can become a real focal point in a holiday lighting display. Moon Glow Lightscapes offers trunk wrapping and canopy wrapping to create different effects. Trunk wrapping is used on deciduous trees where the trunk and a selection of branches are tightly wrapped with mini-LED light strands, while canopy wrapping is used on both deciduous and evergreen trees where the outer foliage is wrapped in a uniform, slightly wispy style with spacing that is roughly one to two feet apart depending on the tree density.
Choose a Color That Suits Your Home
The right color can change the entire feel of your display. Warm white creates a classic, welcoming look, while cool white stands out beautifully against evergreens and fresh snow. For something more colorful, Moon Glow also offers holiday lighting in red, green, blue, yellow, and orange, as well as combinations of these colours.
Add the Finishing Touches
Moon Glow also offers decorative arrangements that have evergreens, branches, and holiday berries for entrances and other outdoor spaces. A few well-chosen details can make your property feel festive without the need to go overboard.
Don’t Let Snow and Winter Weather Dim Your Lights
Winter weather can be tough on outdoor lighting. A little care after a snowfall, and while clearing away the snow, can help prevent damage.
Check Fixtures After Heavy Snowfalls
Snow can cover ground-level fixtures and block the light that they are meant to provide. When conditions are safe, gently clear loose snow away from accessible fixtures without striking them or forcing parts that are frozen to move.
Be Careful During Snow Removal
Shovels, snow blowers, and plows can very easily damage fixtures that are hidden beneath the snow. Before clearing your driveway or walkway, remember where your lights are located. If you use a snow-removal service, point the fixtures out to them beforehand. It’s also best to avoid piling heavy snow directly onto lights.
Keep an Eye On Your Lighting
Winter weather can sometimes loosen holiday light strings or cause bulbs to burn out. Moon Glow Lightscapes uses durable, high-quality Christmas lights for every installation, and if a bulb becomes damaged or defective, we will return to your property to correct the issue.
Leave the Ladder in the Shed with Moon Glow Holiday Lighting Installation
Putting up holiday lights sounds simple until you’re untangling strands, reaching awkward roof peaks, or working outside in freezing weather. And once the holidays are over, there’s still the daunting job of taking everything down and packing it up. Moon Glow Lightscapes handles the process from installation to takedown, so that you can enjoy the finished display without spending your weekends on a ladder.
Lights Made to Fit Your Home
Every roofline is different, which is why Moon Glow uses custom-cut light strings that are measured and cut to fit your property perfectly. This results in a neat, professional finish without unnecessary lengths of lighting around the edges or dangling down.
Moon Glow Keeps Your Property Bright All Year Long
From year-round landscaping lighting to holiday lighting, Moon Glow Lightscapes help your property look its best in every season. Permanent landscape lighting can highlight trees, illuminate walkways, and bring out the architectural details of your home long after the sun goes down. When the holiday season rolls around, custom holiday lighting adds a festive touch, with professionally fitted lights designed to complement your roofline and outdoor spaces.
Whatever the time of year, the right lighting can make a big difference, and with Moon Glow handling holiday installation and takedown, you can enjoy the display without dragging out the ladder or spending your weekends untangling lights.
Ready to brighten your property? Visit Moon Glow Lightscapes to explore year-round landscape lighting and holiday lighting options for your home or business.
