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Uplighting vs. Downlighting: A Designer's Guide

Close-up at night of glowing linear uplight fixtures rising out of a boxwood hedge, backlighting the green foliage from within.

Uplighting and downlighting compared: what each technique does, when to use it, and how designers combine both.

This guide is in progress. Here's what we're covering when it publishes:

  • What Uplighting Does
  • What Downlighting Does
  • When to Choose One Over the Other
  • Combining Both in a Single Design
  • Common Mistakes With Each Technique
  • How We Decide, Fixture by Fixture

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