Patio and Outdoor Living Lighting, A Guide to Evening Outdoor Spaces|How to Light a Patio|Patio Lighting That Gets Used and Why It Is Not the Same as Curb Appeal
The back of the house is not curb appeal Front yard lighting is for people looking at the house. The patio is for people sitting in it. Everything changes when you become the audience from within. Nobody is grading the back yard from the street. The only test is whether the space gets used.The short version: do not treat the back as an afterthought of the front. The front and the back rarely get solved by the same fixtures, and assuming otherwise is how a patio ends up with