The driveway may be one of the most underutilised areas of any house. Used by many as a mere area to park your car, a driveway should be a red carpet entrance to your home, decorated with colourful plants and stylish outdoor lighting.
In this blog, join us as we explore our modern driveway lighting ideas, incorporating everything from LED floodlights to wall lights into your outdoor space.
The benefits of driveway lighting
Modern and stylish outdoor fixtures, driveway lights bring countless benefits to your front or back garden, with each one adding more value to the price of your home.
Beauty: Driveway lighting adds a dash of style to your garden, creating a sleek border that emphasises the highlights of your space. Design your own configuration and create a perimeter around your driveway, or light up your flower beds to show off your green-fingered handiwork 24/7.
Practicality: Just as twilight roads are a lot harder to navigate without street lights, once you get into your driveway it can be very difficult to differentiate the fence from the wall. Lights defining the perimeter offer a safe, practical solution, creating a driveway that is more efficient to park your car and make your way inside your home.
Security: Thieves target homes that they can easily access without being seen. Driveway lights, like our 50-watt LED floodlight, naturally combat this, illuminating your front garden, car and home so efficiently that it will deter any potential trespassers.
Six lighting ideas to transform your driveway
Outdoor lighting is one of the most versatile ways to light up your driveway, largely thanks to the freedom that comes with choosing their configuration, with different lights in different positions creating truly unique driveways.
Accentuate your garden
Enhance the beauty of your driveway with lighting that accentuates your hard work in the garden, illuminating your beautiful flowers, plants and shrubs. This can be achieved by using LED light strips around the top of a raised bed or flower bed parameter, or by using a brighter 30-watt LED floodlight to illuminate an especially stunning patch.
Alternatively, why not use both in tandem, creating an intricately lit driveway that resculpts your front garden and catches the attention of your neighbours in the process?
Light up your home
If you want to prioritise security, using floodlights is the perfect solution. Not to be confused with the floodlights of a football stadium that temporarily blinds you with their dazzle, our floodlights are versatile fixtures that can be used in endless configurations to light up your home.
Fix a floodlight above your garage, neatly illuminating its outline, or point a 100-watt LED floodlight, or a collection of several, upwards around the border of your house to project an impression of majesty onto your humble home. All of our security floodlights have received an IP rating of at least 65, meaning that they have passed rigorous durability tests and won't be damaged by external factors such as dust, rain or dirt.
Create a welcoming entrance
Pair your driveway lights with some neatly placed wall lights that illuminate the beauty of your porch or front door. This will create a cosy, welcoming entrance to your home throughout the year, but especially throughout the latter months when the moonlight can take over as early as 5 pm.
This effect can be easily achieved with wall spotlights that can be turned and adjusted to suit any kind of configuration. Smart and easy to install, these lights are perfectly versatile since they can be adjusted to face any direction, becoming a driveway spotlight one month and a welcoming entrance light the next.
Give your garden some (multi) colour
Giving your garden a splash of colour away from the grey tones of concrete and the verdant zing of grass, LED strips can be cut to size and joined together to create longer runs. Easy to apply either inside or outside, our range of LED lighting is waterproof, allowing you to create a vibrant driveway with absolute ease.
Available in a range of colours, you can opt for white lights that give your driveway an evening sparkle or interchangeable coloured lights that you can switch with the touch of a button.
Smart and stylish
To create a warm welcome to your home, opt for the glowing ambience of our wall lights that can illuminate any part of your driveway that you desire, from your garage to your garden to your porch. Tidy, supremely energy-efficient fixtures, such lights are ideal for illuminating your footpaths or the perimeter of your driveway.
Smart, stylish and pretty fixtures, wall lights are suitable for any outdoor space, instantly enhancing the ambience.
‘Tis the season
As your driveway and front garden change with the seasons, being dotted with autumn leaves before new blossoms appear in spring, why not reflect this evolution using colourful, customisable strip lighting? Such will come into its own in autumn when you can brighten up the early evening twilight, and in winter when your choices of red and green lighting really come into their own.
Save money and time with permanent LED lights that can be changed and adapted to suit the seasons, ditching the fiddly Christmas lights from your basement for good.
Choosing the best driveway lighting for you
Exactly the best driveway lighting for you will depend on what your primary intention for the fixtures is. If safety is your desire, driveway ground lights like our floodlights are your best choice, illuminating not just your car but also the surrounding area, too. Alternatively, driveway wall lights that can be dotted along fences and exterior house walls offer a similar level of safety, along with a dash of unique style.
However, if it's your house that you’d prefer to accentuate over just your driveway, our range of floodlights also provides the perfect solution. Available in a range of wattages to suit any need, these floodlights can be paired with LED strips and wall lights to create a bright outdoor haven that can be configured to fulfil different uses during different seasons of the year.
Things to remember when choosing outdoor lights
Before you purchase the outdoor lights that you think would effortlessly fit into your driveway space, there are a few things that are worth considering so that you save time and money.
Installation: As you might be able to guess, it’s not always easy to install electrical appliances and fixtures in the garden. Indeed, finding a safe and functional power source takes time and effort, with this usually being achieved by placing wiring underground or through outdoor walls. Make sure that installation is achievable before you buy one of our lights and ensure you reach out to an electrician before getting started.
Placement: Closely related to considering where and how to install your fixture, it’s also important to think about exactly where you’d like your light to go. Light fixtures aren’t always easy to pick up and move somewhere else, with an intricate amount of wiring going into their installation, so make sure you’re happy with its position before you get the drill out.
Style: Each of our LED lights for driveways is different from the next, attracting varying kinds of customers as a result. Our wall lights come in different materials and styles, for example, including easy-to-clean polished aluminium and brass, with each one fitting in with a distinct style of garden, driveway, porch, balcony, terrace, or any other kind of outside space.
Choosing the best outdoor entrance lighting
The driveway of your home comes part and parcel with the entrance, therefore you should consider what lighting you would like around your door or porch when purchasing fixtures for your drive. Outdoor up-and-down wall lights are ideal for this task, providing a soft, ambient glow around the entrance of your home to welcome you inside.
Alternatively, you could also consider using a spotlight facing down towards the ground if you’d like more coverage, or if you’d like just one powerful 100-watt LED light to illuminate your driveway, garage and porch. For extra colour, our multi-coloured LED strips could also provide a pop of vibrancy around the entrance to your porch.
Modern driveway lighting solutions with Vision Lighting
With Vision Lighting transforming your driveway has never been easier. No matter which part of your front garden you wish to accentuate, be it your driveway or front porch, we have the LED products and the expertise to help you. With quality at the heart of our process, we are a UK-based company with ISO 9001 Certification which recognises our management framework and ISO 14001 which credits our Environmental Management System.
Explore our range of lighting solutions now to unlock the potential of your driveway and contact us now to give your garden a glow-up today.