Category Design & Inspiration

Walk through any garden center in 2026 and you will find them nestled between the ferns and the ceramic planters:…

Modern minimalist landscapes are built on a specific discipline. Every element earns its place, or it does not belong. The…

Pendant lighting has been an interior design staple for decades. The classic mid-century modern cage pendant, with its open geometric…

The English cottage garden is the hardest style to light well, and I will tell you why up front. It…

Static lighting is safe. Static lighting is predictable. Static lighting is also, after a few weeks, invisible. Your eye stops…

Walk through any garden center in spring and you will find racks of solar flower lights. Most of them look…

I found the candelabra at a thrift store for eight dollars. It was a five-arm brass thing, slightly tarnished, missing…

There is a category of solar garden light where the fixture is almost a disappointment if you judge it by…

Walk into any backyard bar built in the last three summers and you will probably see the same thing glowing…

I put up my first outdoor solar Christmas display three winters ago, and the motivation was not environmental. It was…

Walk down any suburban street at dusk and you will see the same mistake repeated yard after yard. A row…

The first time I saw real moonlighting done well, I was walking through a neighbor’s backyard at dusk and could…

A rock garden is a different lighting problem than a lawn or a flower bed, and most of the solar…

An outdoor bar is one of the hardest things to light in a backyard, and the reason is almost always…

For most of the last decade, solar outdoor lighting carried a specific visual language, and it was not a flattering…