It must be spring! Everyone is posting exterior queries today.

We are replacing a very nondescript double garage door with a faux carriage house style, and that has got me thinking about lighting.

Our house is low and long with a lot of entrances, and we have three outbuildings (none visible from each other). Most entrances have these lights (below). They are costly and custom and we must have at least twenty of them, so they stay.

But I just noticed that, on the garage, and on our "barn/shed", we also have pretty ugly floodlights. I don't have a picture of the garage, but here is the "gardening shed", where pots, summer furniture and gardening eqp is stored. Our garage proper is larger than this but similar, and with the same lighting.

Our gardening shed:

See what I mean about the lights? I was thinking of replacing it with the outdoor light i have on our little stone house, but I think it is far too delicate and does not really work with the sconces. This is it:

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FWIW, here is a rendering of the new garage doors. We will be painting the garage doors and the gardening shed doors BM Hampshire Grey.

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What lighting would you choose to put above? The garage has a peaked roof and window similar to the gardening shed, btw. We don't use the lights for security and there is a lot of light generally on the property.