Home Decor: Light for home garden

Creative ideas for garden lighting.

How many of us think of fashioning our garden a blissful place? Most of us yearn to imply creative ideas to accentuate our garden. One such ways of adorning our garden is to install the apt garden lighting. Garden lighting is also known as landscape lighting and is a technique of creating outdoor illumination of private gardens and public landscapes. Apart from just the decorative purposes, garden lighting and lamps can also be used for safety purposes, night-time aesthetics, security, sports, recreation and accessibility during various situations.

Garden lighting can be powered by many sources like electricity, solar energy, batteries, natural gas, fuels, propane and fire. The important garden lighting components are power, electric wiring and light fixtures. Garden lighting is also opted in underwater gardens.

Ideas on where and how to install garden light

If you have decided to install garden lighting in your garden or outdoors, the important point to be evoked is to identify the different areas of the garden and how you would like to accentuate those areas. It is advisable that you seek the help of a garden lighting designer or a person who is familiar with the techniques of using the garden lights. It can be used in areas like

• Seating area: Mounting lights in your outdoor seating area will accentuate the furniture and create a presentable ambiance. Also you can install garden lighting in the passageway of your garden. Avoid using strong and flashy lights and instead use lights which are dim and colourful with a warm feeling. Up lights can be used in the passageway and near the trees and shrubs or the boundaries.
• Another area where the garden lighting can be opted for is the lawn. These areas require special attention and skill to mount the lights. These areas require a large spread of strong light which results in the ruining of the overall effect. In such cases it is advisable to use dimly lit tiny lights or best, to keep the area dark.
• Garden lighting in driveways create an interesting garden feature. Various forms of lighting like the LED lights and the down lighting can be used in order to create the desired effect. Do not over flood this area with lights.
• For a garden with large trees, garden lighting is the best option to make the garden stand out. Such type of areas can be decorated with different forms of lighting like recessed lighting in the ground or near the tree. Avoid installing lights near the tree if there is already a strong light force around.
• Garden lighting in the walls and the path ways create a fantastic environment and provide depth to the overall effect of the garden. The lights which are used in these areas should be subtle and not flashy.
• Garden lighting to accentuate your water areas. Installing pertinent lights in the water areas in your garden like a swimming pool, a fountain, a birdbath and other places can help you make your garden a delightful place. The usage of water can add both movement to the light and reflect mirror images in your garden.

Types of outdoor lights:

Outdoor lighting is available in various shapes and sizes in many places. Following are few of the types of lighting which can be opted in your garden;

• Path Lighting: This type of lighting is used to create pools of light in the path to safely lead a person from one location to another. In this, the effect is seen in the lighting instead of the source. This type of lighting is important for both safety and aesthetic purposes.
• Step lighting: This type of lighting refers to the small fixtures which reliably illuminate the selected areas in your garden. They make the stairs and other mounted areas safe and convenient in low light conditions.
• Up lighting: This form of lighting is reserved for highlighting the focal points in a garden.
• Down lighting: This technique of lighting is used on objects from above. They create a natural look in a garden and accentuate the landscape features.

Few ideas for garden lighting

• Paper lanterns
• Wood deck lighting with LED lighting
• Alfresco fairy lights
• Garden path lights
• Solar panel garden light
• Moroccan lanterns
• Classic style garden lighting
• Sculptural slate lighting
• Copper lights and solar lights
• Ceramic light holders

To get these lights you can seek the help of online sites which market them. Perhaps, you can choose any form of lighting for your garden and also accentuate your potted plants with the colourful lights.

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