Summertime and the Living is Easy!
During the warm months of the year, it's really nice to be able to spend as much of that time as possible outdoors. The lovely evenings are just so nice with warm breezes blowing and all the lovely scents and sounds of summer filling the air. With a little bit of planning, you can make your backyard into an evening wonderland. The addition of Fairy Lights in the trees, around the fence and over a pergola will allow you to enjoy that outdoors for hours after the sun goes down.
If you have taken the time to really make your space beautiful and useful, I'm sure that you would have added some fairy lights to your space. My niece loves her fairy lights and has made their pool area and the kids play area like a magical place to be. There is enough light to keep the kids swimming well after the sun has gone down. With this summer of 2020 being one of the hottest so far, the kids are enjoying the added time they have in the water.
Wonderful, Beautiful and Economical Solar Lights
Years ago we would never have thought to add this kind of lighting anywhere. You would have to have a power source installed. And then it was just too expensive to plug all those lights in. Just think of the added costs when Christmas rolls around and the decorations are all up, the difference in the Hydro bills was sometimes staggering.
Well, that is not a problem anymore. Solar technology has come a long way in making outdoor lighting not only beautiful and functional, but it is affordable too. LED lights make them bright and most important, they are waterproof. So it doesn't matter if they get wet! The initial cost is in purchasing the lights. Once you have them, there is no further cost involved anymore. The only thing you have to think about is placing the solar panel somewhere where the sun will shine on it for at least 6 to 8 hours a day. The longer the sunshines on the solar panel, the longer the lights will glow into the night. Mine usually turn on about 8:45 in the evening and they are still lit at 4:30 in the morning.
You don't even have to buy all your lights at the same time.
If you are on a budget, then buy one or two strings of these solar lights at a time. Whatever you can afford, and then the following year purchase another couple of sets. Depending on how much light you want in your yard, you may stop with just one string. If you are truly an outdoorsy type in the summer, you may opt for many more. My niece and her family, spend all their evening outdoors, so they have outfitted their area with lights so that the kids can go swimming right into the wee hours. After all it is summer and school is out!
As you can see from these pictures, her home is done with all white fairy lights, but they also come in colors. The colored lights have programs attached so that they can fade, or twinkle on and off, or run like a billboard. You choose how you want the lights to act.
Fairy lights can even make the garden path glow! You can take a walk through the grass and check for nightlife in the flower beds. Moths love the fairy lights, coming out and enjoying them as well. Pets sure don't mind having their yard lit up! You might even appreciate that you can check where your dogs or cats are and if there are any unwanted critters about! Having your yard lit up can save you the trouble of giving Fido a Skunk bath! Skunks are nocturnal, so beware. Fairy lights on the Patio are wonderful when you have company. No more trying to see each other in the dark. You can still bring out some candles for ambiance if you wish, but the fairy lights themselves would be enough.
Let your imagination run wild and stir up some interest in the great outdoors! Even after the kids have gone to bed, it's nice to take a glass of wine, some cheese and crackers and just wind down under the magic of the fairy lights and the stars. It's a great way to relax your mind and body!
For myself personally, the only other thing I would add to my enchanting backyard, would be a nice wireless speaker playing some soft music. You can use your playlist from your phone, tablet, Amazon Music and so much more on them. Tracey from ReviewThisReviews.com had a great wireless speaker featured you can read her review here: OontZ Angle 3 Bluetooth Speaker.
Don't let the summer months go by without enjoying them fully. Evenings outdoors are wonderful and relaxing for mind, body and spirit. Everyone I know can really use this relaxation these days.
All the pictures in this post are from my niece's home (Tara Hocaliuk) shared with her permission.
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