Category Design & Inspiration

A summer cookout that starts at six usually dies by nine, and the reason is rarely the food. It is…

Your yard looks finished in daylight, but at night most of it disappears. A mature oak becomes a black wall,…

String lights are the easiest way to make a backyard feel finished, but most people hang them once and never…

Most garden paths are lit badly. Either the lights are jammed together like a runway, or they are spaced so…

Curb appeal is not just about how your house looks in daylight. Buyers, guests, and delivery drivers all see a…

Most homeowners pick a solar light, look at the color temperature on the box, and either buy it or do…

Farmhouse and rustic exteriors have a specific lighting vocabulary. The fixtures reference a pre-electric era, when light came from candles…

I have spent more than a decade lighting outdoor spaces in the American Southwest, and the Mediterranean patio is the…

A tropical garden at night should feel like a different world. During the day, the bold foliage, the bright flowers,…

A beach house yard is a different kind of landscape. The soil is sand, the air is salt, the wind…

The desert Southwest has a quality of light that exists nowhere else. The air is dry and thin, the sky…

I spent four years fighting solar lights in a wooded lot outside Olympia before I figured out what actually works…

Mid-century modern homes have a specific lighting problem. The architecture is from an era (roughly 1945 to 1970) when indoor…

There is a particular quality of light that a shade garden deserves. Not the bright, even wash of a suburban…

A moon garden is built around a simple idea. White flowers and silver foliage reflect whatever light reaches them, making…