Have Fun With Outdoor Lighting

By Kate Hoegh

You are proud of your home. Its personality is just like you-it makes you and your guests feel at home. However, you are missing something: patio lights that do a little more than stop you from a pratfall or a pool fall. They do not tell your guests, "This is me, too!"

Now, you put a lot of work into making your home reflect you. Why shouldn't your patio lights reflect you, too? When they come in as many styles and with as many accents as you and your home have, picking will not be simple. However, it can be done.

Picking the patio lights you can make into what you want will be easier than you think. Because you are not limited to one kind. You can work with strings of lights, with party lights, with umbrella lights alike, and any one of them can be made to fit your deck. Which means fitting you.

Leave it just a round of glowing bulbs, suggesting the place you hang your coat, eat, and sleep? No, let us not go there. This is you. This is your home. You live here. In addition, you want everything to show it including your deck. You are not plain, and neither should your patio lights be.

Maybe you're the hopeless romantic and you want a string or two of appropriate patio lights. You can opt for the flower look or the holiday globe look. (As in, the light globes that look as though you had extra Christmas tree ornaments to string up.) Maybe you're the horticulturist to whom there's no such thing as too few flowers. There are hundreds to try. You might be the rugged outdoors type--lanterns should work. You might be the genial host with two or even three patio tables for your parties-those umbrella lights are looking better every minute. Just like a classy pool club.

Here's the bonus: they all look great when it's party time and you've got a good group of people joining you for an evening of good drink, good food, good talk, good everything. Most important-if you've really given the appropriate thought to the atmosphere outside your home as well as inside your home, your patio lights will look like you. And that's what your family, your party guests want to see when they come. - 30228

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