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Expert Tips for a Well-Lit Landscape

Lighting Designer Randall Whitehead shares his tips for creating an outdoor lighting plan that adds beauty, safety, and convenience to a home.

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Look to the Moon

For a naturalist lighting design, blend a number of light sources to emulate the effect of moonlight. Drape lights along pathways and low-level plantings. Mount luminaries in trees that point both up and down. "The effect is as if the area were being illuminated by a full moon," Whitehead says.

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