Grilling Summer – Backyard Lighting Ideas
Summer is here which brings the joys of grilling and outdoor dining. As you fire up the barbecue and enjoy meals on your porch or patio, having the right lighting is essential. Proper outdoor lighting ensures you can see what you’re cooking even after the sun sets and creates a relaxed atmosphere, perfect for lingering with friends long into the evening.
Make sure your outdoor spaces are ready for those memorable golden hour cook outs. We will look at a few clever use-case scenarios that take outdoor lighting to a more practical level. Grab a burger and let’s get inspired with these backyard lighting ideas.
The Art of the Outdoor Grill
Outdoor cookouts have been an American pastime since the invention of fire. It holds up even today as a measure of traditional manual labor for cooking. Creating a grill area for your backyard will need to take this into consideration.
As for the lighting, we can only be as creative as your desire to bring back childhood memories as well as the calming atmosphere it provides. We want to make sure your guests are not only eating good food, but also can vividly re-imagine the experience with the help of a properly lit area.
Tips in Lighting
Keeping things social is one of the cornerstones to a good backyard bbq. This is why it is important to have lighting throughout the walkway into the backyard or grilling area. An outdoor gooseneck light over your porch or entryways is the first impression we need to have. They provide a timeless look that can blend with any setting, but also direct light exactly where it needs to be.
We can also mount gooseneck light fixtures above the grill. This might seem like an obvious solution, but not many grilling configurations go this far. Gooseneck lighting ensures you can see what you’re cooking. Don’t forget some pole mounted lights which will help light up the lounging perimeter to enhance the social atmosphere. Nobody likes to talk to dark faces or eat from a plate they can barely see!
Featured Custom Grill Builds – Backyard Lighting Ideas
Lets visit a few residential properties and see how they match up to the above lighting tips. Remember, these light fixtures are fully customizable and made right here in the USA to ensure quality and top-notch craftsmanship.
Gooseneck Style in Florida
One of our clients, Gregory Daniel, needed an enhanced lighting solution for his outdoor pool deck. The lights needed to be mounted against the wall where the grill was situated.
The Union Gooseneck Light is customized with a G14 gooseneck arm. This rugged fixture is finished with porcelain enamel which will never fade even in our brilliant Florida sunshine!
Embedded – Flush Appliance
In this California build, we get a bit bold and show what our sign lighting can do in the right spots. The seamless design of the grill station built into the outside wall may seem like a lighting challenge at first. Instead of a standard gooseneck light, we choose the dual arm emblem sign light using the 10 inch shades. Since the light fixtures are hard mounted on the wall, they provide angled illumination without wasted light. These American made lights are customizable right down to the industrial gray finish.
The rounded shades in these sign light fixtures work well with the rounded surfaces of the grill. Using a marine grade finish was appropriate as it would be more durable than the powder coating and compliments the porcelain tile.
Tennessee Build – Stem Mounted for those windy days
Windy days create a challenge in outdoor lighting for this home in east Tennessee. This creative deck build will capture that classical, rugged outdoor look. Let’s explore how we can integrate an outdoor lighting solution to overcome this problem.
“I also wanted to attach the lights directly to standard junction boxes and have direct wire capability for the power,” he explains. “I found Barn Light Electric’s website and watched the fabrication video. After seeing that, I knew Barn Light was the way to go.”
Choosing the Marathon Stem Mount Pendant for the grill deck will facilitate the use of junction boxes overhead. Additionally, these lights use steel stem mounts instead of the cord-hung pendant. This choice stabilizes the light fixture during those nasty wind conditions that scream around the house.
Versatility in your outdoor kitchen lighting
To add more customization to the lighting, high-wattage LED vintage style bulbs were used in these fixtures. They also have a dimmer switch to provide that candle glow during those calm lounging nights, but also still provide daylight conditions with a simple slide of the switch.
Conclusion
“From a manufacturing standpoint, I could do no better than Barn Light,” Jerry says. “The lights have been perfect and will outlast me. Quality, install flexibility, color and size options, and handcrafted to perfection.”
We have shown a few incredible outdoor grilling pads that have pushed the boundaries of style and lighting. Contact our sales team today and let’s get you that dream outdoor kitchen you have been dying to build.
