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6 Landscaping Ideas to Keep Your Home Cooler in Summer
Use these landscaping tips to cool down your home during the hot summer. Call AllGreen Landscape Co. in Chantilly: (703) 992-8787.
Summer is here and the heat is on… your home. The sun beats down and makes the AC crank cool air all day, ticking away those kilowatts as your electric bill climbs. Fortunately, with a little help from nature, you may be able to reduce your summer air conditioning and overall energy bills. Contact AllGreen Landscape Co. in Chantilly to implement some of these cool landscaping ideas that will shade your home from the sun’s hot rays: (703) 992-8787.
1. Landscaping the East Side of Your House
If you can, arrange patios and evening meeting places for the east side of your home, as they’ll be in the shade in the afternoon’s heat. This would be a great place to put your outdoor kitchen, outdoor dining room or outdoor living space.
2. Concentrate Shade on the South and West Sides
Afternoon sun is the hottest, so depending on which way your home is facing, try to add shade-giving trees or a beautiful vine-covered pergola that provides shade, yet invites cooling breezes to blow the heat away. Natural shade features can significantly drop the temperature both inside and outside hour home.
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3. Funnel Breezes to Your Home with Trees
Where do the prevailing winds come from on your property? Breezes can blow away some of the heat from your house, and if you plant a line of shade trees along with a wall of stone or shrubbery, this can concentrate the wind toward the house for this very purpose.
4. A Cooling Water Feature
Beautify and cool your yard with a trickling water feature that bounces sunlight back up into the sky and provides a relaxing sound you can enjoy as you relax in your pergola and vine sheltered outdoor living room.
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5. Consider Ground Cover Colors
Certain ground covers reflect or deflect light, whereas others absorb and hold onto it. A healthy lawn will keep your yard cooler, as can choosing a light-colored stone or concrete walkway – instead of a dark-colored path.
6. Solar-Powered Outdoor Lighting
If you love entertaining in your outdoor dining room on summer evenings, use the day’s sunlight to juice up a solar-powered lighting scheme to light pathways and other areas. A fire pit or fire feature can also provide electricity-free lighting for your evenings.
Stay cool this summer with the power of these and more of our natural landscaping ideas! Contact AllGreen Landscape Co. today at (703) 992-8787 to get started.
