Avoid harsh and glaring lights

Above all, you should make your garden lights inviting and warm. Otherwise, your invited guests may not come around the second time, having been dazzled into a phobia by your brilliant lights. If you are using directional lighting, make sure the bulbs are facing downwards. You can inquire about this matter from your vendor. Otherwise, take a look at the manual accompanying the item you want to purchase. That will show you how the bulbs have been positioned.

Directional lights can effectively cause temporary blindness in people if the direction of the light meets their line of vision. Hence, instead of your lights making it easier for visitors to negotiate the garden walks, they may be the cause for them to stumble.

In the same way, do not let your directional lights face windows in the house. That will cause glare in that room of the house.

Staple all your rope lights securely

Rope lights are frequently used to accent curved contours in the landscape. If you have these in your garden lighting scheme, double-check that the contour being followed is hemmed in by a concrete margin. The rope should be lying against that border. Staples should be applied to the rope at short intervals.

Under no circumstances allow your landscape artist to use rope lights without those borders. Otherwise, no matter how secure and dense your staples, the chance of the rope getting pulled out-of-place is always present.

Accent hazardous places

Use accent lights for areas where people will need to see things that they can stumble over or fall into. this is also true of thorny bushes that will need to be seen to be avoided. If you happen to have an orchid garden in the lawn and that garden has those wooden posts where the orchids grow, you will need to provide light in that place too. In case any of your guests ventures there out of curiosity, she can avoid accidents from happening.

You will also need to have lights in sloping areas of your garden. the lights will make it easier for people to make out the dip in the terrain. That should warn them not to venture there at night.

Provide light for the risers of high steps

If you have garden steps that are unusually high you should have them redone. Alternately, you could embed lights into the risers of the steps so that people who are descending can see where to step.
Use soft lights for tall posts

If you are using post lights anywhere in your garden, make sure they are not glaring to the eyes. Low-powered ambient lights are more suitable for posts.

Those are only a few of the things you should be aware of about garden lighting. Some of the tips are plain common sense, some of them are based on the properties of light. A good publication concerning garden lighting will be something you will need if you want your garden to be as friendly to visitors as it is pleasing to your eyes.