Deck Lighting in Mount Airy, OH

Mount Airy (ZIP 45239) backs onto a lot of wooded slope, and most decks here have at least one tree worth looking at. A household here gets that tree lit in the way that suits how the yard is used. There are two ways to do it and they make quite different evenings.

Either one buys a yard that still exists after dark. With nothing lit out there, the railing is the edge of the world by eight in the evening. With a lit tree beyond it, the eye carries out past the deck and the property keeps its depth. Most people notice that on the first night more than they notice any fitting.

An uplight sits at the base and throws up through the branches. You get the trunk and the underside of the canopy standing against a dark sky. It reads from a long way off, it makes the tree the main thing out there, and it takes one or two fittings. All of it stays reachable from the ground for good.

A fitting mounted up in the tree throws back down instead. That gives dappled light on the ground, the canopy in shadow above it, and a lit circle you can stand in. A specimen at the end of the yard takes the uplight. A shade tree over the table takes the one above. A big mature tree often takes both on separate switches, and we settle which is which standing under it with you.