One of the easiest ways to spruce up your patio is with patio lighting.  Adding patio lighting to your patio can transform this outdoor living space into a place that you can enjoy not only during the day but also during the night.  The outside lights that you install can either be regular lighting that is connected to your home’s electrical system or it can be solar light fixtures.

Most people have some sort of a light fixture on their patio already.  These lights are generally just basic fixtures with one switch and they work fine but for the purpose of our discussion today, we’ll be talking about really spicing up the patio with creative  solar patio lights.

One way to use solar lights around your patio that is quite nice is to install solar driveway markers around the perimeter of your patio.  These little low powered lights are not really designed for producing a lot of light.  They’re actually designed more as a way to outline a particular area in your yard.  Normally they are installed along the edge of a driveway to keep you from driving off the driveway and into the bushes when you’re backing your car out at night.

Solar driveway lights can make very interesting patio lights.  Simply line your patio with these solar lights and when the sun goes down, the outline of your patio will be clearly marked.  This not only looks nice but it can be a safety feature as well.  Many patios are made with raised concrete or raised wood.  It’s not uncommon for people to trip and fall off the edge of these patios due to poor lighting.  Even though the patio might only be raised a few inches, a person can still twist their ankle on the edge of the patio or break an arm or hip if they step off the edge and fall.  Using driveway markers to line the edge of the patio can prevent this type of an accident.

Usually homes have one single patio light installed right above the doorway.  Might I suggest that you replace this light with some solar outdoor flood lights.  These types of lights don’t have to be so bright that they are overpowering.  The nice thing about using solar lights as patio lighting is that you can aim the lighting to shine on the exact location that you want to illuminate.  This strategic direction of patio lighting can accent particular features of your patio that you want to draw the attention to.  Maybe you have a statue or some figurines on your patio.  Aiming the outdoor floodlight at these items can really make them stand out at night.

Other patio lights might include lights that are on posts.  If you have a cover over your patio, it can look really nice if you install solar post lights on each of the posts that are supporting the patio cover.  If you do this, it’s a good idea to install patio lights that have switches on each fixture.  That way if you only want to turn on a couple of them you can if or you want to really light of the patio and make it like daytime, you can do that as well. Solar post lights are easy to install and they can

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