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With customizable, easy-to-install outdoor lighting from Govee, you can create a more inviting atmosphere, improve visibility, and make every gathering feel a little more special.
Warmer weather brings with it the opportunity to open up your outdoor space to host backyard barbecues, small gatherings, and large Fourth of July parties. As summer heats up, entertaining outside becomes more inviting when the sun goes down and temperatures cool. The right outdoor lighting can make your yard activities safer, more inviting, and more fun for nighttime entertaining. Pathway, wall lights, and ground lights can provide more visibility, so it is easier to move around, while spotlights and string lights can accent landscaping and architecture. With smart controls, a host can set the mood for everything from an intimate dinner party to an Independence Day celebration. No matter the occasion, Govee Outdoor Lights are your must-have party upgrade.
Improve safety for guests.
Adding lighting is a great way to make your home safer for family members and guests moving about your property after the sun goes down. Focus on the parts of your property where guests are most likely to lose their footing, such as walkways, steps, decks, and pools.
Pathway lighting illuminates walkways and steps to prevent tripping. The Govee Outdoor Pathway Lights 2 Lite casts an S-shaped light trail that adds visual interest while also clearly lighting the path, fulfilling both form and function.
You can also improve visibility around your house by adding wall lights to help illuminate patios and porches, outdoor flood lights for driveways, and string lights that add visibility and appeal over decks or dining and lounge areas. The key is to strike a balance. Provide enough lighting to allow your guests to move safely about your property without harsh lighting that ruins the mood. Go with low lighting along paths, steps, and entryways while reserving bright lighting for areas that require better visibility, such as driveways and food serving zones.
Highlight landscaping features.
Using lighting to draw attention to landscaping adds ambiance while making your yard more inviting, opening it up for larger gatherings. Instead of having your yard swallowed up in darkness, make it accessible with strategically placed lighting that illuminates trees, fences, gardens, and water features.
Placing lighting features away from the home encourages your guests to spread out as they mingle. A lit tree, illuminated firepit, or glowing garden creates a visual location that draws guests, making it feel like part of your outdoor living space. Use spotlights to highlight trees and large shrubs, ground lights to wash garden beds in soft light, and pathway lights to guide guests to seating areas and other features.
Govee offers a variety of outdoor lighting options for highlighting landscaping, including spotlights, pathway lights, ground lights, and string lights.
Set an inviting mood.
Ditch harsh floodlights in favor of more nuanced mood lighting. With Govee’s adjustable LED colored lighting, you can adjust light levels and colors on any of its fixtures through its smartphone app. Set light levels and temperatures to suit the event, be it a lively backyard barbecue or a casual dinner party. You can also vary mood lighting from area to area. Keep the outdoor kitchen brightly lit with cooler temperatures for ideal task lighting for the chef. Drop the lighting to lower levels with warmer color temperatures for the outdoor dining table and lounge areas.
For a more immersive setup, Govee’s DreamView feature allows compatible lights to work together, synchronizing colors and dynamic effects across multiple fixtures to create a cohesive lighting experience throughout the entire outdoor space.
String lights are one of the best ways to add a festive feeling to an outdoor gathering. Hanging them above a patio, deck, dining table or seating area creates the illusion of a ceiling that makes the area feel like an outdoor room rather than a broad open space. With LED string lights, such as the Govee Outdoor String Lights 2 set, you can change the light brightness and color to suit the occasion. Go with a warm light for cookouts and casual gatherings or use colors for holidays and themed parties. You can also dim the lights midway through the evening as you transition from arriving to eating.
Create defined zones in the outdoor space.
Lighting is a great way to separate your outdoor living space into different zones without actually adding any structures. Use lighting to define specific areas, such as a patio, firepit, or dining area. Add string lights to define a dining area or lounge area. The brighter task lighting in the outdoor kitchen and food and drink service area helps with tasks and helps guests easily find those much-visited areas.
Spotlights are ideal for highlighting special gathering points, like a firepit, pool or patio. Aim them high, so they shoot downward at a 30- to 45-degree angle to prevent glare. For lighting broad spaces, add an outdoor lamp such as Govee Lamp Post Lights.
Incorporate themed lighting.
If your outdoor gathering has a theme, such as birthday, holiday or game day, then use color changing LED outdoor lights to create themed lighting. Govee smart outdoor lighting allows you to change the color of the lights via the Govee app, so you can match the lights to the theme of the party, such as red, white, and blue for a Fourth of July blowout and team colors for game-day barbecues.
Consider investing in permanent lights, like the Govee Permanent Outdoor Lights Pro, which stay up year round. These lights that you mount around the eaves of your home use color-changing LEDS that allow you to easily change light colors to different schemes and patterns via the smartphone app to suit various holidays and events.
You can also make your lighting the center of attention with specialized lighting. The Govee Lightwall is a 9-foot pixel display with 1,536 RGBIC LEDs arranged in a grid pattern. The RGBIC lighting technology can produce sophisticated animation and patterns, making it a perfect lighting accompaniment for a DJ setup or other event, a great backdrop for a sports watch party, or the centerpiece of a Christmas light display.
Preset your lighting controls.
Smart controls allow you to adjust lighting as an event unfolds and changes. Using smart lighting such as Govee’s app-controlled fixtures, you can set brightness levels, scenes, and colors, plus program schedules before guests arrive. Go with brighter lights near entries and along walkways as guests arrive and during food service, then transition to softer and warmer lights to create a more relaxed atmosphere for conversation.
Smart controls also make it easier to set lighting levels for various zones. The app allows the host to conveniently change lights via a phone or a voice assistant.