Category Buying Guides

A garden gate is the handshake of your landscape. It is the first thing a visitor touches and the last…

Solar flood lights are the most over marketed category in outdoor lighting. The box on a sixty dollar solar flood…

Stair lighting is the most safety critical lighting on a deck. A path light in the garden that fails is…

I have installed somewhere north of four hundred solar pathway lights over the past six years. Most of them were…

The reason to light your house numbers is not decoration. It is so the ambulance driver, the delivery driver, and…

Tabletop lanterns are the lighting category where people buy with their heart and end up disappointed with their head. The…

Post cap lights are the finishing detail that makes a deck or fence look built rather than assembled. A row…

Buying solar garden stakes one six pack at a time is fine for a homeowner doing a small border. Buying…

A wall sconce is the light people actually notice on a house. Path lights are ground level and easy to…

String lights are the lighting effect that transforms a yard from “lawn with a grill” into a place people want…

The solar lighting industry has a dirty secret hiding in plain sight. For every outdoor solar light that gets installed…

If you have ever set up a vendor booth at a night market, you already know the lighting situation is…

Go to any store selling solar lights and you will find a wall of black fixtures. Black stakes, black path…

The round stake light has dominated solar garden lighting for twenty years. You know the shape: a plastic lollipop on…

Natural material solar fixtures occupy a strange corner of the market. Most solar lights are plastic, metal, or glass, and…