Outdoor Flood Lights

Outdoor flood lights serve a number of purposes including increase in security of your home, increase in functionality and safety, and/or achieving a desired aesthetic effect. Like all other types of outdoor lighting, you will be best able to choose the right outdoor light if you think about what you wish to achieve by the same. Are you wishing to increase the security of your home or business or simply wishing to illuminate a piece of garden art? Think about your goals first.

Outdoor flood lights can be the single most important safety feature at your house. Statistics compiled by insurance companies have demonstrated that motion activated flood lights can significantly reduce the risk of theft. Good outdoor lighting does much more than just reduce the risk of break-ins. Appropriate outdoor lighting increases the entire security of your home and thereby increases the security of your family.

Outdoor flood lights can also be used in a functional manner. Evening sporting events, for example, would be impossible without the use of flood lights. In many areas of the world close to the equator it gets dark at 6pm. That means that all children's sporting leagues would have to be confined to weekends which would greatly interfere with other family events. Flood lights allow for night time swimming at outdoor swimming pools. Outdoor theater or any theater for that matter, would also be very difficult without the use of flood lights.

Many special aesthetic effects can be achieved by outdoor lighting. Often flood lights or spot lights are placed at the base of trees in an effort to illuminate the branches. This creates a romantic and whimsical effect that lights a garden without being obtrusive. Flood light can be placed in your front garden and positioned towards your home. Used in this fashion, these lights provide a soft filtered light on the facade of your home which is a really nice but understated effect.

There are a number of ways that outdoor flood lights can be used at your home or business. In determining the type of light you need you need to first determine the purpose of the light. By determining the purpose or perhaps purposes of the light you will then know how strong the light needs to be. For more information on this type of outdoor lighting check with your local Yellow Pages.