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VENDORS Illumascape Lighting LLC. Richard Ewing Landscapes Tom Lessard Construction Ottani Landscape Design Ken Gordon Landscape Construction Nature���s Water Gardens Michael Epaul Photography Lighting the night landscape is an investment that rewards the home owner from dusk until dawn. The exterior lighting of this Springfield, Mass., pool cabana illuminates the natural stonewalls and enhances the wooden entry doors. Matching pergolas flanking the cabana add dimension and provide sheltered outdoor seating beneath lighting that visually defines the wraparound patio. Incandescent halogen lights highlight the pink hues of the stony creek granite, quarried in Brandford, CT. ing the client���s needs during the design process was paramount to the success of the project. With the proper planning, it was possible to create an enjoyable nightscape view of the pool and patio from a comfortable and romantic space within the cabana. The easterly view from within the cabana looks across the pool toward a Concolor fir (Abies Concolor) privacy screen that separates the pool and patio area from the entry motorway and parking area. Eight LED directional lights with 5-watt comparable lamps were selected to up light, graze and wash the 25-year-old conifers. The lamps were 4000�� Kelvin color temperature, providing full light coverage and enhancing the color of the plants. The row of spruces grows under the canopy of a large, mature red oak (Quercus Rubra) that allowed for vertical dimension of the lighting at this end of the pool and patio. The arbor at the end of the spruce row permits passage to and from the pool area. Par 36 well lights with 35-watt halogen lamps up light the clematis vine on the easterly trellis, and aid in locating the gate within the arbor in the evening hours. The southeasterly side of the pool patio lighting was connected to the concolor fir screen by a Sourwood (Oxydendrum arboretum) specimen tree. Dwarf English Boxwoods (Buxus Sempevirens) within the perimeter fence were illuminated by spill light from both the specimen tree and the conifer screen, which now defines the patio perimeter at the south end of the pool enclosure. Large perennial beds were lit just outside the perimeter fence, at the south side of the pool. At the client���s request, light shields and proper stem heights for the area lights eliminated glare from the extensive perennial beds. Knockout roses, hydrangeas and other perennials were combined with white and purple butterfly bushes to introduce a variety of color at the south side of the pool. Less mature plantings, such as the climbing roses and autumn clematis at the base of the south side trellis, were up lit at higher light levels. As they mature, the illumination of these climbing plants will create visual directions for passage in and out of the south side of the pool patio enclosure. April 2013 29