Deck Lighting — Dress up Your Post Caps
Most backyard decks have posts, and the tops or “caps” of these posts make great places to install lighting. If you do a lot of outdoor entertaining extra lighting in the evening is particularly important, especially if you have people going up and down stairs to the yard/swimming pool/garden/hot tub etc. etc. etc. This deck post light from Kichler is one of the classier lamps I’ve seen (meaning it’s too good for our backyard…), but it could go well in an elegant setting. Expect to pay $100-$150 a piece for something like this, which doesn’t include installation. These aren’t solar lights, so you’ll have to run some wiring. Still, they’ll provide a lot better illumination than a solar lamp does.