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No. 19 Outdoor Lighting · Mid-Century Modern

Stone Façade with Illuminated Water Feature

At night, uplights and warm wall wash illuminate the stone façade and flagstone walkway, while a rectangular stone water feature with bubbling fountains anchors the foreground garden.

Design notes

Mid-century modern design lines everything up with the house. Look for flat roofs and post-and-beam overhangs, walls of glass, breeze-block screens, terrazzo or large concrete pads with gravel joints, and a rectangular pool set square to the architecture. Planting is sculptural and sparse — agave, yucca, olive, citrus, a Mediterranean fan palm — and colour comes from a single accent: an orange door, turquoise water, a yellow umbrella.

What to look for

  • Layers: one overhead, one at eye level, one low along the ground
  • Whether you can see the fixture or only the light
  • Colour temperature — everything warm, nothing blue
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