Mixed tone lighting makes your home shine!

This spectacular home in Spring Branch features a mixed tone lighting design. Mixing both warm tone and cool tone lighting within a landscape gives a varied, complex and textured look, providing visual interest and beauty.

Warm tone up-lights enhance the front façade of house, highlighting its beautiful stonework and inviting guests towards the house. The eaves of the home are also lit, along with the second story windows, showing off the home’s wonderful architecture.

The incredible native live oak trees on the property are lit with cool tone up- and down- lights. The effect of this lighting through the branches creates interesting and lovely shadows in the landscape and across the driveway. In addition, it mimics the lighting of a full moon on the trees which allows their beauty to be enjoyed every night instead of hidden in the darkness.

In the backyard, mixed tone lights play an important part of the lighting design as well. The large trees are lit with cool tones, highlighting their magnificence, while the stone wall, the smaller crepe myrtle trees and palm trees around the pool are washed in warm tones, providing interest and texture. There is even a tight direct spotlight on the water cascading into the pool, adding dimension. It is this varied lighting, both warm and cool, focused and washed, that makes this beautiful home and landscape shine!