Modern exterior lighting is mostly about restraint. The best examples don’t show off the fixtures. They show off the house, with crisp edges, calm surfaces, and a handful of carefully placed highlights. If you can walk up the driveway and ...

Most people shop for exterior house lights one fixture at a time, and then wonder why the house looks patchy after dark. A better way is to walk the outside of your home at night with a flashlight and decide ...

A lawn on its own is a green rectangle. It’s tidy, sure, but it doesn’t say much about the house behind it. The good news is that you rarely need to tear everything out to fix that. Most front lawn ...