Outdoor lighting
Find the right light.For every night.
Compare outdoor lighting kits on the same house, in the same dusk.
Top picks for permanent eave lights
Price tiers are our own rough budget bands, not live prices. Check the listing for today’s price.
Where the buy links go
Every buy link on this site goes to Amazon, which is the only retailer we cover today. Our editorial is our own: nobody pays to appear here, and placement is not for sale.
They are four decisions, not one purchase.
Most houses end up with two of the four, bought a year apart. Each is rendered by its product’s real count and spacing, so you can see them separately or stacked.
- 1 · Roofline Eave plus both gable rakes. 100 to 120 ft on most two-storey fronts.
- 2 · Facade One up-down box per pier, one flood per feature. Four is already a lot.
- 3 · Path & drive One every 6 to 8 ft down each side you want lit, one at each step.
- 4 · Patio & garden Post to post, plus a fifth for sag. Nothing touches the house.
Illustration, not a render. Nothing in it was placed by a catalogue count or spacing.
One house, four surfaces, four kits.
The same three sample houses, dark and then built up a surface at a time — roofline, then the walk, then the wall, then the planting. Drag the handle. Every kit named under the frame is one we cover.
Build it up
- Roofline A permanent run under the eave and up every rake
- + Path & drive Four stakes down one side of the walk
- + Facade A pair beside the door, four spots up into the planting
- + Garden A string through the beds and into the tree
Lit in this frame
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Govee Permanent Outdoor Lights Pro
100 FT · 60 ZONES · 20 IN SPACING · IP67
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Govee Outdoor UpDown Wall Light, 2-pack
2 LIGHTS · 600 LM EACH · IP66
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Linkind Smart Solar Spot Lights SL5C, 4-pack
4 SPOTLIGHTS · 3 W EACH · IP67
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Govee Permanent Outdoor Lights Pro
100 FT · 60 ZONES · 20 IN SPACING · IP67
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Govee Outdoor UpDown Wall Light, 2-pack
2 LIGHTS · 600 LM EACH · IP66
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Linkind Smart Solar Spot Lights SL5C, 4-pack
4 SPOTLIGHTS · 3 W EACH · IP67
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Govee S14 Outdoor String Lights 2, 48 ft
48 FT · 15 BULBS · IP66
An illustrative sample, not a render. Every kit above is a real one and the counts in the picture are its own — four path stakes because that pack holds four, a pair on the piers because that box holds two — but an image model put the light there, not the renderer. The renders on the example pages place every point by the kit’s own spacing instead.
Three steps. About four minutes.
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Pick the surface
Roof edge, walk, wall or patio. They are four different jobs with four different kinds of hardware, and buying for the wrong one is the common mistake.
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Measure the run
The calculator wants your front eave, the number of gables and the roof pitch, and tells you which kit length covers it with how much to spare.
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Compare like for like
Every kit rendered on the same house at the same dusk, with its own count and spacing printed under it. Then buy, or do not.
It is not a Christmas product.
Search interest for Christmas lights doubles on the first of November and is gone by the twenty-seventh of December. The lights stay up. Here is the same roofline the rest of the year.
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2700K
Warm white
February. A warm line on the roof, like the house came that way.
See it up close →
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December
Red and green
Alternating zones, no chasing, no inflatable anything.
See it up close →
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October
Orange and purple
The one week a year the neighbours ask where you got them.
See it up close →
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Game day
Navy and gold
Set once, triggered by the calendar. Change it for the away game.
See it up close →
Counted, not claimed.
Every number on this site is one we can count. These three are counted when the page loads.
31
products, every one with a page that says what we could not check
258
renders, each placed by a real product's own count and spacing
4
sample houses, photographed from the same kerb at the same dusk
No star ratings, no review counts, no testimonials. We would rather show you the render.
Three things we will not do.
Flatter the hardware
Zone counts, spacing and colour range come off the spec sheet. We will not render a scheme the product cannot physically produce.
Hide who pays us
Every buy link earns us a commission, and the footer of every page says so.
Gate the useful part
The comparisons, the calculator and every buy link are never behind an email box. There is no email box. Ever.
The four we get most.
Are these pictures of real installations?
No, and we say so under every one. They are our own renders, each tied to a specific product and constrained to what that product can do — its zone count, its spacing, its colour range. None of it is manufacturer photography.
How accurate are they, really?
The position of the run, the spacing between points and the colours are accurate to the product. Brightness is the honest weak spot: how bright a kit looks depends on the siding, the street lighting and how dark it actually gets where you live. We render a reasonable middle.
Do I have to buy through you?
No, and the buy link is never gated. If you would rather walk into a store and pay the same price there, that is completely reasonable and it costs you nothing extra either way.
Why are there no prices on the product pages?
Because a price typed onto a page like this one is wrong within a week, and there is no honest way for us to keep a whole catalogue of them current. So you get a cost tier and a button that opens the live listing, which is the only price that counts.
Start with the surface, not the product.
Every kit we cover, rendered on the same three houses, with its real count, spacing and run length on the card. Then you will know instead of guessing.
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